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Daniel Amedee’s album Life isn’t background music. It’s the music one plays loudly into headphones, the music one uses to block out the busy world and think, the music one bobs a head to while staring out the window of a moving train. While Amedee’s rather repetitive and simple lyrics don’t necessarily paint a story in one’s head, they do offer comfort, inspiration, and motivation to the pensive mind.

Amedee’s simple songs describe the feeling and spirituality of presence. The first, “Life,” mentions beautifully mundane examples of natural life as if to say that life can exist everywhere. It is a song of lyrical simplicity but musical complexity, built off of passionate crescendos in timbre and also volume.

“Be All” and “Rhythm of Being” encourage one to allow oneself to be all, to feel all, and to recognize that existence has a very appealing rhythm, just like a great piece of music. In “The Only God is You,” Amedee instills power in a listener to decide their futures, fates, and characters, and to carve their own paths. Finally, Amedee encourages the listener to make the connection between presence and place in the outside world in “Reaching Outside.”

The only 15-minute, 5-song album is a quick listen. Yet, in my opinion, it is most rewarding to devote an uninterrupted 15 minutes to Amedee’s album. Amedee truly establishes himself as an album artist, as his theme and musicality does come across best when his songs are heard consecutively and in one sitting. His isolated songs do not tell a story or complete the whole picture, but together, they are powerful and thought-provoking. This may not always be suitable to a given situation, but it surely shows the power of the style unique to Amedee’s music.

In a world busy with music, it can be refreshing to listen to that which benefits from simplicity, calm, and the ability to stir thought. Daniel Amedee’s album Life is exactly this.

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MM Shorts 860: Daniel Amedee

We first posted about New Orleans singer-songwriter Daniel Amedee as part of our 100 Posts in 100 Hours marathon at the beginning of the year. Now he has just released Life, the title track off of his upcoming EP of the same name that sees the light of day on the 16th August. With a hypnotic, meditative backbeat and beautifully earnest vocals, Life pulls you into its rhythm, lyrically delving…

This month I had the opportunity to speak with New Orleans-based urban-folk artist Daniel Amedee. Amedee has released multiple albums and toured Ireland, England, Canada, and the United States. His music mixes sounds and beats that have a meditative quality to them but somehow still capture the edge of urban life. But don’t take it…

Hear New Orleans singer-songwriter Daniel Amedee’s new single, “Let Love Out”

Daniel Amedee feels that all of his life experiences have led him to become a musician. New Orleans born and bred, Amedee relocated to Cork, Ireland after being relocated there at age 18 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It was here he found his musical footing as the bassist of popular Cork band Remma. 

When Remma called it quits in 2010, Amedee relocated to San Francisco to begin recording his debut solo album, Themes From..., and has since released two additional albums. 

100 Songs In 100 Hours: 37 – Daniel Amedee

Tackling themes of love and human consciousness, New Orleans singer-songwriter Daniel Amedee’s track Everything Will Change mixes meditative beats and haunting, blues vocals to create an exquisite urban folk anthem. It is the title track off his upcoming EP out in early February. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/213609086"…

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