Charlotte Martin?

[Jazzfrac]

Does anyone here like Charlotte Martin? She's very similar to Tori Amos; in fact I personally think she's a little too similar. But she has a great voice. When I first heard her radio single I didn't really like it, but XPN started playing other stuff from the album and I fell in love with it. Now I put her second only to Vienna as best singer/songwriter since 2000. Of course as I started to say before, hopefully she'll develop a more unique style, not that I would mind having another Tori B).
If anyone cares why I put a cutoff mark at 2000 its because a new artist just doesn't have enough time or material to show their depth to me, and I could never put them past Joni or Paul Simon or even Tori.

[Ginny]

Funny that people keep comparing her to Tori, b/c I'm a huge Tori fan and don't care for Charlotte much. Of course the only thing I've heard is that test drive cd she put out awhile back but maybe I'll try her out again since people keep saying good things about her music. ~Ginny

[myra]

I discovered both Vienna and Charlotte Martin at the same time, while browsing through CDBaby. I thought both of them sounded a bit Tori-esque (must be the piano). I recently saw Charlotte Martin do a short set opening up for Matt Nathanson and was impressed with both of them.

[Ginny]

Yeah, I keep hearing such good things about Charlotte Martin from people who usually share my taste in music. I will definitely try to catch her live act, hopefully in the near future. I also want to get her album since I only have the test-drive thing. The only Vienna songs that reminds me of Tori at all is Decade and One. Something about the piano part, but other than that they don't remind me of one another. Welcome to the forum, Myra! ~Ginny

[Dionesque]

I like Charlotte's music too.
My absolutely favourite song of her is "Wild Horses" from her album "On Your Shore". You really need to hear this song!!

[Fred]

I mentioned elsewhere how I discovered the music of Vienna and Charlotte (and Regina Spektor and some other female singer-songwriters) on Pandora while searching for an elusive Tori Amos-like song that I had heard. (I never found the song, but who cares?)

I haven't followed up on Charlotte beyond her sampler, but she sounds more Tori-esque than Vienna to me. (Not in a bad way!) Amusingly, if you enter Vienna Teng in music-map (a very clever toy found at http://www.music-map.com/) Charlotte pops up as her nearest neighbor.

Speaking of affinity, all of these artists are in The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music, which is another interesting site devoted mostly to female singer-songwriters (http://ectoguide.org/). They have a listserv too, but it's not very active.

There were a bunch of other promising artists that came out of that Pandora search that I haven't followed up yet either. That became unnecessary for Regina when she broke through on the radio shortly after.

Speaking of radio, the nearest equivalent to WXPN here in NY (WFUV, that is) has never played Charlotte according to their playlist archives. Of course, they don't play Vienna either, and even Tori gets minimal play between album releases. All of these artists are a bit too soft and down-tempo for them. From what I've heard on the 'net, XPN goes more that way than FUV does.

Finally speaking of radio, I don't subscribe to satellite, but I was listening to XM on a plane trip recently and they have a couple of stations (The Loft and Coffeehouse) where Charlotte's and Vienna's music should be at home; perhaps they have been played there. Their playlists resemble Radio Paradise online, which has played both (altho Vienna much more than Charlotte).

[slinkytwf]

I liked most of her Stromata CD, but it took a while for me to adjust to her style. I didn't check out any earlier works because I noticed that at least one of the CDs had rootkit DRM on it. If I were currently employed, I might be inclined to check out more recent efforts if they were DRM free, but right now, I'm not even pre-ordering VT's new effort.

All three ladies have distinct styles. Martin is lyrically closer to Amos, I found.

I think I found both Martin and Vienna through an Amazon match with Tori, and am very happy to have discovered all three.

[Jonathan Sanders]

Charlotte fans might be interested in an interview I did with her when Stromata was about to come out:

http://www.stereosubversion.com/feature ... 8-01-2006/

[collectingbees]

I absolutely love Charlotte Martin. I don't think it's fair to compare her to other artists, or to compare other female artists to each other in general, to be honest. I think she's incredibly talented. I am a sucker for classically trained musicians who decide to make more contemporary kinds of music. She's also extremely gracious and kind.

[Fred]

Charlotte has a rare-as-hens'-teeth NYC concert the same night as Vienna's Infinity Hall show, which I'm attending. Curse my luck.

[collectingbees]

Charlotte's having another baby in March (she's 6 months pregnant), so she probably won't tour after that. She may or may not.

[Fred]

Charlotte's having another baby in March (she's 6 months pregnant), so she probably won't tour after that. She may or may not.

I read her blog on that. She wants to tour after her daughter is maybe 3 months old, in support of the new album, health permitting of course. Sounds challenging, at best--2 small kids, and just recovering from a major illness. Likelihood of her returning to NYC again on that tour, which would probably not be extensive, would be low I would think. Too bad. I've never seen her in concert.

[collectingbees]

She is living in California and she rarely does CA shows. Last time she was in town for me was 4 years ago and I had to choose between seeing her and Tori and I had already bought Tori tickets.

I hope she comes your way again. She is an amazing performer and I am pretty pleased with the material she has released as tastes for this new album.