Sye Elaine Spence

A live performance including original and/or cover music. Live acoustic accompaniment and minimal stage ornamentation.

Sye Elaine Spence is a singer/songwriter from New York City, currently residing in Atlanta, GA. As a songwriter, she has collaborated with various artists in the New York City indie music scene since 2008. She also records and performs as a solo artist. Her latest release is a warm, folk-inflected EP entitled Bloom.

After digitally releasing a bevy of her own songs between 2010 and 2012, ranging from pop-rock to soul; gigging between New York and Atlanta, Spence took a brief step away from music at the end of 2012. This break, which permeated personal realms, resulted in a move just outside of Atlanta, Georgia and a chance meeting with folk multi-instrumentalist, Michael Lesousky. It is with Lesousky, that Spence returned to her roots as a writer and a poet. Collaborating for months, the two stumbled upon a simple quiet sound that supported Spence’s simile laden lyrics and hushed vocals. Of the 10 songs written by the pair in Spring 2013, four were brought to a quaint pond house in Athens, Georgia to be recorded.

The four-track set, Bloom, begins with its title track, featuring a softly-plucked banjo as the sole accompaniment. This instrumental arrangement is constant throughout the EP, including Spence’s cover of Bob Marley’s classic, ‘Is This Love’. Third track, 'You', brings urgency to the record, with the repeated line "I just wanna love you" growing in volume along with the eighth-note banjo countermelody as the song climaxes.

As evidenced in Bloom, and surely works to come, Spence is a storyteller, with every pluck of the acoustic accompaniment, a truthful narrative of love exposed.

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