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When the Lights Begin to Dim (New Vers.)

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Released: Jan 1, 2010

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When the Lights Begin to Dim (New Vers.)
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Genre: Americana / Folk Rock / Rock
Location Strasbourg, Alsace, FR
Profile Views: 188390
Last Login: 5/16/2012
Member Since 12/11/2005
Website www.cosmopoliterecords.com
Record Label Cosmopolite Records
Type of Label Indie
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About the Band

Nathan Symes, leader et compositeur de Chapel Hill voit le jour en Caroline du Nord alors que les marches pour la paix battent le pavé au son de « The Time They Are A’changin’ ». Dylan, mais aussi Brel marqueront une enfance déracinée en France. De retour aux Etats-Unis, il assiste à l’irruption de Nirvana. Nouveau chamboulement. Nathan tourne le dos à une prestigieuse carrière d’ingénieur et un destin WASP tout tracé pour s’engouffrer dans la scène indé de Boston. Il l’occupera pendant une dizaine d’années au sein de diverses formations grunge et en tant que frontman de Big Gladys, groupe de rock parodique inspiré de Ween.

Il traverse une dernière fois l’Atlantique, le baluchon débordant de ses Tom Waits fétiches, son Anthology of American Folk Music (Smithonian Recordings) et les premiers albums de Beck, Wilco et Morphine. De nobles ascendances réunies et disséquées dans Chapel Hill, pour lequel il rassemble une violoniste, un batteur et un contrebassiste.

Le nom Chapell Hill est tiré de sa ville de naissance, réinventée dans ce qu’elle raconterait de plus sombre tels ces faits divers relatés sur une vieille coupure de journal. Mais les textes peuvent aussi se faire plus personnels et politiques, inspirés par une Amérique qu’il aime mais dont il se sent étranger.

Nathaniel Symes, Chapel Hill’s front man and songwriter, was born in North Carolina as peace marches beat the pavement to the tune of “The Times They Are A’changin’“. Bob Dylan, and latter, Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg influenced an uprooted childhood in France. Upon his return to the United States, he witnessed Nirvana’s irruption and turned down a prestigious preordained engineering career and dove into Boston’s independent music scene. For the first few years, he played as a guitarist in various grunge and post rock bands, and then became the lead singer and guitarist of Big Gladys; an experimental parody rock band inspired in part by Ween, Morphine, and psycho Billy.

In 2000, Mr Symes crossed the Atlantic once more, his baggage overflowing with his choice LPs. Among them are Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, the Smithsonian Anthology of American Folk Music, as well as the first albums by Beck, Wilco, and G. Love and Special Sauce. All noble ascendants, to be gathered and dissected by Chapel Hill for which he then joins forces with three like minded musicians: a violinist, an upright bass player, and a drummer.

The name Chapel Hill is borrowed from Nathan’s birthplace, which is reinvented into what could be the town’s darkest tales, stories such as those told in the criminal section of old newspapers. Nevertheless, the charismatic front man’s lyrics can also become more personal or political, inspired by his own life, or by an America that he loves but sometimes feels estranged from.