Independent composer and musician. Experimental/electronic hybrid.
Ghost in the Museum is available now on Bandcamp, CD Baby, Amazon mp3, iTunes and Spotify. Others will follow soon.
For a limited time you can download the single “Ancient Art” free on Bandcamp!
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From Oliver Arditi’s review of Dandelion Exclusives:
This is a work of pronounced creative maturity, turning our attention to Kloba’s quizzical observations with a deft, un-manipulative touch, and employing the simple resources of guitar pop with singular power.
Three new tracks, produced for Mark Whitby’s July 2014 show on Dandelion Radio are now available free on Bandcamp.
Please download and enjoy!
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Throughout the month of July, Mark Whitby’s show on Dandelion Radio featured three exclusive tracks: “His Jacket”, “Rescue” and “Foolosopher”. You can’t hear them anywhere else. The show is archived on Mixcloud:
From the KZSU (Stanford University) review of It Is All an Illusion:
Outsider new age avant-pop-rock. Jittery jarring electric guitar, female vocal stylings uncannily reminiscent of Gordon Gano. From the press sheet, you can expect sarcasm, verbal metaphors, and increased emphasis on the instrumental music, but with Kloba’s trademark hopefulness shining through all of this. As a non-musician I’m not sure if the songs are remarkably simple or atheoretical; give it a play and decide for yourself.
Listeners of Dandelion Radio voted my song “I Saw the Stars” into #14 of the Festive 50 for 2013!
From Oliver Arditi‘s review of It Is All An Illusion:
She just has some stuff she really wants to share, and her creative practice is driven by the important insight that the content should shape the form, and not vice versa. The measure of this music’s quality is its outstanding effectiveness as an act of communication; by conventional standards it sounds rhythmically tentative, melodically half-formed, its phrases more like conversation than the shapely rhetorical figures of mainstream songwriting. But sticking to the shapes and colours of established formula tends to restrict the meanings of the songs to those that formula was developed to convey, and although many composers have found ways to write around those tendencies, to great effect in many cases, It Is All An Illusion takes a more direct approach; Kloba confronts her meanings head on, and makes a music of her own experience, on her own terms.