My new Album Ghost in the Museum will be released on January 26, 2016! Watch here for information on how to get a free song download during release week. Here is a “3D” preview of the cover artwork for Ghost in … Continue reading
Diane Marie Kloba
I had a good year. Did my first solo shows. Released a new album. Got on some favorite of the year lists. That makes me happy. Even having reviewers mention my music is a nice boost. Thanks to all of … Continue reading
Diane Marie Kloba’s fifth solo album titled It Is All an Illusion. It is available worldwide now.The recording continues the sonic exploration of her work and with some return to alternative rock styles, it also introduces a broader use of synthesizer to set … Continue reading
From a review of I Am an Unknown Artist at Unwashed Territories, by Mark Whitby, DJ from Dandelion Radio: It’s something not bound by style descriptions or by musical conventions. At times – as on ‘That’s How It Goes’ – the narrative quickly … Continue reading
From a review of I Am an Unknown Artist by Oliver Arditi: Much avant-garde music shares with this album a cultivated naïveté in the way it presents its materials, thrust directly at the listener like the gifts of a child: … Continue reading
From the KZSU (Stanford University) review of I Am an Unknown Artist: All tracks are highly hypnotic as if a ghost is whispering in your ear. The mood is very avant-garde and a touch psychedelic, a bit like Pink Floyd’s “The Wall.” … Continue reading
I Am an Unknown Artist is Diane Marie Kloba’s fourth album, released March 8, 2011. Its musical foundation is built of Diane’s own guitars, vocals and acoustic percussion with occasional contributions from a small group of collaborators. The voices on I … Continue reading
From the review of For, You Stranger on WZRD’s blog: Diane Marie Kloba is a Chicago native who these days hunkers down in west-suburban Franklin Park. She’s a free-spirited strangeling who writes and performs wry, ramshackle avant pop. Active since the 1990s when … Continue reading
From the review of For You Stranger in the March 2010 Illinois Entertainer: Diane Marie Kloba pursues a more avant-garde sound on her latest solo effort, For You, Stranger, than she did as a member of The Silent Workers. At times, … Continue reading
From the review of For You, Stranger by Your Imaginary Friend at KZSU (Stanford University): …a higher art form than we are mostly used to. …Not a cliché or pop pandering bullshit melody or guitar line to be found. …refreshing, so … Continue reading
For You, Stranger was released on august 12, 2008. It marked the start of Diane Marie Kloba’s most overtly experimental effort, intentionally shunning pop conceits, but still keeping the idea of the song as a short and self contained work. … Continue reading
Messages from the Ionosphere was released May 31, 2005 on Striped Shirt Records. Messages from the Ionosphere featured some of the bigger guitar sounds that Diane favored before I Kid You Not; there are also a couple acoustic numbers singer-songwriter tunes and … Continue reading