Adam Green (musician)

Adam M. Green (born 28 May 1981 in Mount Kisco, New York) is an American singer and songwriter. He is a member of The Moldy Peaches and launched his solo career in 2002 in addition.

Life

Adam Green is a great-grandson of Felice Bauer, the fiancé of Franz Kafka. He comes from a family of doctors, his father was temporarily neurologist at Columbia University. Until the entry into High School Green was educated at home.

His early 2008 with his longtime girlfriend, photographer and musician Loribeth Capella, received marriage ended in divorce after less than a year.

Work

Green is often compared to Ben Folds, Leonard Cohen, Ben Kweller, and Jonathan Richman. His unusual style reached being only a small fan base, but he has now made ​​the breakthrough at least in Europe. His six previous solo albums have been released by Rough Trade Records. Among his best known songs are the single releases Jessica, Friends of Mine, Dance with me and Emily. In January 2005, his third solo album Gemstones, which quickly came to Germany in the charts and Green Performances at Harald Schmidt and TV total allowed appeared. For Gemstones Green received a gold record for selling 100,000 albums, and he also was nominated in 2005 ' International Newcomer of the Year ' for the echo in the category. In the U.S., Adam Green, in contrast to Germany and other European countries, not so popular.

The music of Adam Green is considered along with that of Kimya Dawson as the main influence on the musical direction of the anti-folk. His music style is often mistakenly referred to as LoFi / lowbudget -productions, since its resources were rather limited in the first few albums. His music is considered to be influenced by Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Scott Walker and Leonard Cohen.

2005 Greens volume of poetry magazines in the German Suhrkamp Verlag was released. The book contains the English tree, and a German translation of the author and musician Thomas Meinecke. In 2006 his album Jacket Full Of Danger. On 7 March 2008 its fifth solo album was released, titled Sixes and Sevens.

In March 2009, the piece Timbuktu, based on the novel by Paul Auster, in-room theater Tübingen was premiered for the Adam Green composed the soundtrack.

On 8 January 2010, the album Minor Love, which is based musically more on the early albums, but overall carries rather melancholy traits appeared.

On January 25, 2013, he published the Californian singer and multi-instrumentalist Binki Shapiro the duet album " Adam Green & Binki Shapiro ".

Discography

Albums

• 2002 - Adam Green ( published in the U.S. under the title Garfield )
• 2003 - Friends of Mine
• 2005 - Gemstones
• 2006 - Jacket Full of Danger
• 2008 - Sixes and Sevens
• 2010 - Minor Love
• 2010 - Music for a Play ( Soundtrack Timbuktu, only Vinyl & MP3)
• 2013 - Adam Green & Binki Shapiro

Singles

• 2002 - Dance with Me
• 2003 - Jessica
• 2004 - Friends of Mine
• 2005 - Emily
• 2005 - Carolina
• 2006 - Nat King Cole
• 2006 - Novotel (Promo)
• 2008 - Morning After Midnight (Promo)
• 2008 - Twee Twee Dee (Promo)
• 2009 - What Makes Him Act so Bad (Promo)
• 2010 - Buddy Bradley (Promo)