Familiar Brooke Miller

• 1 What You Know 03:20
• 2 You Can See Everything 04:34
• 3 There You Are 05:40
• 4 Everywhere 05:22
• 5 Familiar - Piano 03:53
• 6 Shake It Off 04:15
• 7 A.M. Song 03:51
• 8 Two Soldiers 04:58
• 9 Say That Dear 04:12
• 10 Familiar - Guitar 02:43
• 11 Quiet Night 04:39
• Total Runtime 47:27

Info for Familiar

Brooke Miller ist ein außergewöhnliches Gitarren-Talent und eine einfühlsame Komponistin und Texterin. Und mit großer Gewissheit wird man als Zuhörer eine Überraschung erleben. Dennoch: Es gibt nicht viel Aufhebens, wenn Brooke Miller singt. Triller, Sprünge, Schreie interessieren sie nicht. Stattdessen trifft sie einfach ihre weichen, feinen Melodien und transportiert umso stärker ihren unerschütterlichen Sinn für Offenheit.

"Wie bei Mary-Chapin Carpenter und anderen großen Folksängerinnen vor ihr bringt Brookes Bescheidenheit Melodie und Texte zum Strahlen. Aber diese Stimme ist nicht zu unterschätzen. Wenn Brooke Miller singt, hat es den selben Effekt wie ein gerader Blick in die Augen."

"Brookes handwerklicher Stil spiegelt den rauhen, windgepeitschten Charakter ihrer Heimatstadt auf Prince Edward Island, Kanada. Obwohl sie mit der heimischen Folkmusik aufwuchs, spielte und tourte sie als Teenager in Punk-Bands. Die mehrfach mit renommierten Musikpreisen ausgezeichnete Sängerin und Gitarristin hat in ihrer kanadischen Heimat und über die Grenzen hinaus einen guten Ruf als authentische Künstlerin gewonnen." (GuitarGig)

„… eine prima Gelegenheit, diese Künstlerin kennenzulernen, die in der Tradition von Rickie Lee Jones und Joni Mitchell musiziert." (Audio)

Brooke Miller, Gitarre, Gesang
Don Ross, Bass, Klavier, Fender Rhodes Bass

Mastering by Hans-Jörg Maucksch
Produced and recorded by Günter Pauler

Brooke Miller
Brooke’s career began on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in a loud punk band as the lead guitarist & vocalist at the ripe old age of 12. She later connected with music by the likes of Bruce Cockburn, Rickie Lee Jones, The Police and Joni Mitchell. She has flourished into a road warrior, touring throughout Canada, the US, Europe and Japan. In 2011 she released her fourth CD, Brooke Miller, her first to be distributed nationally in Canada through DEP/Universal. It features Brooke on acoustic and electric guitars and vocals with an array of guest musicians from Toronto and Halifax. Released on CD and 12″ red 180-gram vinyl, and distributed worldwide on iTunes, the recording includes reworked versions of some of Brooke’s best songs as well as new material, produced in a format ready for commercial radio. New tracks and new versions include the first single, “Cannonball,” a cover version of the great song by The Blue Nile “Tinseltown in the Rain,” an R&B-tinged vocal version of her tune “Shake It Off” (replete with horn section), loud versions of “Big Deal” and “You’ve Got My Attention” and reworkings of “What You Know,” “You Can See Everything,” and “What Kind of Move.” Getting back to her rockier roots, Brooke re-immersed herself into a more electric sound, while still keeping her acoustic and electric guitar playing front and centre. The recording garnered a nomination for Brooke at the 2012 East Coast Music Awards in the Rising Star category.

Brooke recently released her fifth album for the German audiophile label Stockfisch Records. Entitled Familiar, the album is a collection of acoustic ballads, and it recently received a nomination for the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (the "German Record Critics' Award"), the German equivalent to Canada's Polaris Prize.

Brooke’s tunes have been heard in recent feature films (The Year of Getting to Know Us, starring Sharon Stone, Lucy Liu and Jimmy Fallon), and on hit television shows (The L Word and Women’s Murder Club). In 2007, she won the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals’ Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award.

Miller’s new business relationships with Dacapo Publishing & DEP/Universal, both based in her new hometown of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, will help bring her to a truly international audience.

Booklet for Familiar