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ChordSlinger n Lola
Music for a Better World
To Feel It is to Understand
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ChordSlinger n Lola's music is rooted in many styles such as rock, new age, ambient, classical, blues and others. It has a distinctive sound with an ethereal ambience to it. It is emotionally charged and meant to take you on a journey into someone else's situation or to make you feel someone else's circumstances through stories and commentaries. For example, instead of saying "War is bad", Lola transforms into a lady in a war zone singing to you about her plight in "Stop This War". We believe that if you can feel what someone else is going through from their point of view, your enhanced understanding will promote change. If you can understand what the miner and his family went through from their eyes in the song "The Miner at Big Branch", you will be more likely to want to help. In keeping with this, 100% of the money that we make from all songs is donated to charities associated with the issues we sing about. We do a few romantic/lost love songs. As with our others, they are created to make you feel them.
How did ChordSlinger n Lola come about? - ChordSlinger n Lola found each other on an internet music site called TheSixtyOne. They talked and both agreed that Lola's ambient voice and ChordSlinger's ambient style at that time were a good match. So, they decided to try a collaboration. In September of 2009, they got Lex Zaleta to write some lyrics for a ChordSlinger song, and then rewrote another Lex Zaleta song themselves with good success. They quickly gained a following on the site. Then, they began writing the entire songs themselves and found the fan base growing. Lola developed a role as the vocalist who writes the harmonies, does some rearranging, and helps with lyrics. ChordSlinger became the song writer and instrumentalist (playing all the instruments himself), and singing on rare occasion. They are part of a new breed of indie music that has been spawned by the internet. They send files across cyberspace to produce music. This is the wave of the future. Musicians can pick their musical partners from all over the globe and get good matches for their styles and this was a good one.
Accomplishments - ChordSlinger n Lola are consistently ranked well within the top 1% of all artists on Stereofame.com. Their current ranking is #77 out of over 15,000 artists. They have also placed songs in the top twenty (out of over 4,000 songs) in the 365 day chart in the vocal category on TheSixtyOne.com. One of their songs, "Stop This War", was selected for posting on Neil Young's war protest site. We felt it was quite an honor.
Lola's Bio - Lola de Hanna is a Greek singer-songwriter who came to New York to become a psychologist and strayed off to the world of music, live shows, band rehearsals and song writing. She has a masters degree in psychology from Columbia University, and has been involved in numerous music projects. Before she came to this country, she collaborated with various musicians In Greece and in the UK and did songs ranging from electro-goth to alternative rock and much more. Upon arriving in New York, Lola teamed up with the hard rock/metal band ONPOINT with which she plays shows regularly all over Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn. They are becoming an established name in the New York Indie scene and she is the lead. She has sung on songs for RV Park and King Crow, not to mention a number of songs she wrote herself that you can find around the internet under the Lola de Hanna name. Her songs are emotional and combine conflicting energies such as calming and relaxing versus driving and upbeat. She likes to "play" with different sounds, instruments and vocal qualities. Lola's voice has been described as raw, smooth, pure and rich while her compositions have been described as exciting and unique.
ChordSlinger's Bio - ChordSlinger (Slinger) has lived in southern Ohio his whole life. He wrote music at a very young age and played with several local bands. He (like Lola) has a degree in psychology. He has another in computer systems and is also a Registered Respiratory Therapist. He owned a business that burned several years ago at which time he lost his life's work and most of his assets. He turned to music to help heal himself. He began writing instrumentals, and put out a CD of original tunes which can be found on Itunes called Deliverance from Flames. Kim Howes (a friend) did the cover art for the CD and it took the voting in the prestigious Savannah College of Art and Design contest that they hold each year beating out an Elle magazine cover. He then began playing live in an online sim called Second Life. He wrote some songs there that people heard and encouraged him to place on indie music sites. He posted six songs on an internet site called TheSixtyone.com. All six of his songs were voted into the top 20 instrumentals for the year (out of 4,000 +). He met Lola there, began writing lyrics, and they created ChordSlinger n Lola.