Arrica Rose has loved and played music most of her life - musicals, punk-rock, big band, vinyl, piano, guitars, 4-track recorders, miniature casio keyboards and so on. She went to more movies than your average human though and secretly wished to live within the celluloid on screen and so she attended film school at USC because she was given a scholarship to do so. She wound up scoring short films during her time there which led to eventually deciding that music is what she enjoyed most in life. Writing, recording, and putting together a backing band known at The ...'s (The Dot Dot Dots) was the next stage of the master plan. Arrica Rose's music has since been featured on iTunes in the US and Europe, done some charting on iTunes as well as indie/college radio, appeared on television shows, the Nike Women website and in your local Starbucks. Rose grew up listening to big band, folk, 1960's french pop, Love Songs on the Coast, and obscure indie/punk-rock and she has a long list of musical heros. Some refer to Arrica Rose & the ...'s music as Indie-Folk-Pop but call it what you will we hope you enjoy it. |
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Arrica Rose & the ...'s Let Alone Sea is the band’s much-anticipated third full-length release. Part folk, part dream-pop and vintage rock, Let Alone Sea was recorded live to analog tape then layered with Rose's sultry lead vocals, Andrew Sister-esque harmonies, strings, horns, and pretty noise. Arrica Rose coined the name The …’s(“The Dot Dot Dots”) to describe the collaborative nature of her project which evolved from a 4 piece guitar-driven band into an intricate sonic landscape including keys, mandolin, toy piano, omnichord and more. Let Alone Sea (produced by Dan Garcia with Arrica Rose) is Rose’s most honest and intimate work to date, a collection of 10 timeless songs with a warmth and depth usually reserved for vintage recordings. With its haunting melodies and imaginative lyrics, Let Alone Sea walks the unique line between contemporary and classic.
Frank Sinatra’s "New York, New York" 45 was the first record Arrica Rose stole from her parents at the age of 4. Later she found out her great uncle Lou Monte best known for his Italian-themed novelty records was one of the first artists signed by Sinatra to Reprise Records long ago. Growing up in a New York household transplanted to the San Fernando Valley, Rose's father was a working actor that mostly played gangsters that met tragic ends (notoriously in The Godfather) and her mother was an educator and a writer in her spare time. At 15 Rose gave up on her childhood piano lessons and bought her first electric guitar. She learned the instrument by playing in Uxby an all girl punk-rock trio that never recorded a single note but played frequently at small Los Angeles area venues like The Smell and Cobalt Cafe with bands such as Commander Venus, Still Life, and Jimmy Eat World.
After high school, Arrica Rose took a bit of a hiatus from music and attended USC film school. Soon she found hereslf taking less film-production courses and more sound design classes as well as scoring short films. She also began releasing her lo-fi home recordings on her own label, pOprOck records. Upon graduating from college, putting together her backing The ...'s (The Dot Dot Dots) promptly ensued. Arrica Rose & the ...'s debut full-length People Like Us was co-produced by Rose and Larry Crane (Elliott Smith, The Decemberists, Sleater-Kinney) at Wavelab in Tucson AZ. The band traveled out to the desert for two weeks creating a debut that was described as a record that ought to “launch [the band] into stardom, something for which they seem destined” (Performer) and as a “12-song effort with poetry disguised as lyrics” (Daily Sun).
Arrica Rose & the ...'s follow-up full-length, La La Lost, was produced by Dan Garcia (David Crosby, Christina Aguilera, Boz Scaggs) at his Radio Hill studio in downtown Los Angeles. A Paste Magazine recommended album, La La Lost was featured on iTunes throughout Europe, charted on Italy’s iTunes charts as well as on indie/college radio across the country. Arrica Rose’s song “Uh-huh” was featured on NBC’s Lipstick Jungle and "Little Wars" was featured on The CW's Nikita. "Uh-huh" was also re-mixed by multi-platinum selling DJ Jeff Savage and featured on NikeWomen.com.
Arrica Rose's follow-up EP, Pretend I'm Fur, was more of a solo endeavor created in studio with producer Dan Garcia, an experiment in drum loops, brazilian instruments and a Bee Gees cover of "Tragedy". Pretend I'm Fur debuted at #32 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts and also secured an iTunes 'New and Noteworthy' release spotlight. Also, Rose's cover of "Tragedy" was featured by Esquire.com as "one of the best covers of all time".
While working toward completing her 3rd full-length album, Let Alone Sea, Arrica Rose & the ...'s released 3 songs from the record (Antebellum EP) as a sneak preview of what was to come. Currently, these songs can be heard in Starbucks 11,000+ stores.
In addition to her music projects, Arrica Rose is founder and director of I HEART Inc an artist operated non-profit that raises money for charitable programs and organizations via creative projects and events. I HEART has been fortunate to enlist an amazing team of sponsors and supporters including Willie Nelson, Crosby Stills and Nash, Iron & Wine/Sub Pop Records, Fran Drescher, Olivia Newton-John, Rachel Maddow, Jack White, Jesca Hoop, Jackson Browne, Bird & The Bee/Inara George, Martin Guitars, Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios, Radio Hill, Hunnypot, Hotel Cafe and many more.
... A few influences in no particular order: Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Mazzy Star, The Red House Painters, Simon and Garfunkel, Television, Gram Parsons, Velvet Underground, The Lemonheads, Unwound, The Spinanes, Low, The Magnetic Fields, Harry Nilsson, Beat Happening, Sleater-Kinney, Edith Piaf, Stevie Nicks, Frank Sinatra, Neko Case, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith, Come, Hank Williams, Bruce Springsteen, Glen Campbell, Lucinda Williams, The Cure, Fugazi, Elvis Presley, Iron and Wine, Calexico, The Andrew Sisters THE END
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