Artist description Powerfully moving acoustic-based music filled with memorable melodies & gritty personality. An accessible artist you can really sink your teeth into.

Music Style Acoustic Rock/Pop

Musical Influences Jeff Buckley, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, and a kabillion others

Similar Artists Cat Stevens, Tracy Chapman, David Gray

Artist History Midwestern farmboy, Ted Ekman. Moves to Boulder, CO. Starts death punk band, "RabitDonut". Cheap, over-processed gothic guitar noise, battles it out with punk rock drums and bass in an old barn. Records a 3 song single. Disbans. Moves to Dallas, TX. Creates "Peter Luxury", a sort of industrial noise outfit. Burning piano props, powertools on sheet metal showering audiences with sparks, as a wall of organic industrial noise blasts from stages propped up on smashed cars. Performs 2 concerts. Records 1 concert video. Disbans. Moves to San Francisco Bay Area. Goes solo acoustic writing songs which bare the soul and ignite the spirit, regularly delivering them with riveting intensity in bars & coffee houses around the bay. Independently releases 2cds in a 2year period. Hooks up with Michael Israel (drummer), and multi-instrumentalist, Patrick Conway to create the lush "Hearts Fail" EP. Ekman currently earns his living gigging, busking and selling CDs. In the past 6 months concert attendance has risen dramatically from 0-15 fans to well over 100 at every show. He continues to gig and record, with a new CD, "NAKED", released in July of 2001', and a concert DVD scheduled for release in late 2001'.

Group Members Ted Ekman, Patrick Conway, Michael israel

Instruments Guitars, Voice, Bass, Drums, Mandolin, Tin Whistle, Harmonica, Ebow

Albums Dirt 99', Color Me Happy 00', Hearts Fail 01'

Press Reviews "...he's a powerful guitarist with a powerful voice...his folky songs are just lovely and haunting and sad. In others he lays passionately into his guitar and howls... a force to be reckoned with" -East Bay Express " I envision him alongside Sting, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, and BruceSpringsteen. Ekman has a voice as timeless as any of these gentlemen and his songwriting skills aren't anything to scoff at either...Tremendous." -San Francisco Herald

Location Berkeley, CA - USA

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