Damien Heck

   
Artist: Damien Heck

   Genre(s): 
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Discography:


   
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   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2

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Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice dog-tired his childhood fishing and daydreaming in the countryside of Celbridge, County Kildare. Painting and penning songs inspired him as a offspring man, motivation Rice to assign a band together. The heavy, indie rock'n'roll sounds of Juniper were sign-language to Polygram in 1997 and "The World Is Dead" and "Weathermen" did moderately well on Irish radiocommunication. When it came time to recording a uncut album, contractual rules from the label prevented Juniper from doing so, and Rice split. He headed for the hills of Tuscany in 1999 and lived his aliveness nomadic around Europe. Rice returned to Dublin within a year to focal point on music erstwhile once again, scrounging up enough money to record a demo. Rice sent it to producer/film composer David Arnold (Björk, Nina Persson, Paul Oakenfold), and as luck would have it for him, Arnold loved it. He set Rice up in his selfsame possess mobile studio to have a record. His first individual, "The Blower's Daughter," was an instant Top 20 hit when it appeared in fall 2001. Shared gigs with McAlmont & Butler and folkie Kathryn Williams followed in summer 2002 when Rice released O in the U.K. The album attain the States in 2003, which earned the Irishman a consecrate group of American fans in addition to his European ones, and after satiating all of them with a collecting of b-sides in 2005, Rice released his soph record, 9, the next year.