Yael Meyer is a singer-songwriter who writes honeyed electroacoustic folk-pop songs while playing every instrument under the sun, including the ukulele, guitar, accordion, piano, percussion, glockenspiel and ocarina. Yael lived in Santiago de Chile until she turned 19 and received a scholarship from Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 2004 she self-released her debut Common Ground, which was praised by the Rolling Stone Chile as "one of the top 50 albums of the year." Now Yael is releasing an EP entitled Heartbeat that features Danny Levin (Lenka) on trumpet, Fil Krohnengold (Meiko) on acoustic guitar and accordion, Joseph Karnes on bass (Jesca Hoop) and production by Bill Lefler (Ingrid Michaelson).
There's a nice range on this EP - tracks like "I Wonder How" will make you think of an Apple ad with its upbeat pop drums and catchy glockenspiel refrains while "Shed Their Fear" is a softened swarm of warm vocals wrapped around a delicately bobbing beat. "Heartbeat" steals the EP with melodious harmonies and perfectly placed electronica in parallel to the picking of the guitar, and one can only hope that there's more of this yet to come. The Heartbeat EP drops November 10th and if you enjoy the tunes of Azure Ray, Priscilla Ahn or Meiko, I highly recommend you check this one out.
check out "Common Ground" on iTunes
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