Helen Sventitsky

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Current Location:
Sparks, NV
Artists We Also Like:
Muse, Radiohead, Pat Metheny, Kate Bush, Ben Folds, Tom Russell, Chemical Brothers, Joe Jackson, FSOL, Arab Strap
Influences:
Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, Prince, Depeche Mode, Bob Dylan, Steely Dan, Billie Holliday, Lene Lovich, Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, Squeeze, XTC, the Buzzcocks, Dead Kennedys, Sarah Vaughan, Cecilia Bartoli, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark
Biography:
Helen is a singer and songwriter who's songs detail wide-ranging life situations both on a personal and universal level. Her lyrics often take the listener on intricate trips through the darkest crevices of the soul, pulled through the other side by, if not complete hope, than vital understanding. These journeys are accompanied by a predominantly electronic, yet varied musical pallete, pulled from her upbringing in the San Francisco Bay Area: East Bay soul, British Punk and New Wave, South Bay... (read more)

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Honorable Mention
9:58pm on July 7, 2008

This is a repost from my "News" blog on my website.  It's late.  I'll reedit to do something more creative tomorrow.  In the meantime, drinks are on the house.  Belly up to what you want while we celebrate! Thanks peeps!


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Helen is pleased to announce that she has made the Honorable Mentions list in Round 1 of the 2008 Independent Singer-Songwriter Association Songwriting Contest. Click on the link below to view ...

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A classy kind of blah: Introducing my new website
7:22am on July 7, 2008

It's been several weeks in the making; attempts to make simple HTML work, using a minimum of Flash and some inadvertent strides into CSS land, but here you go:


http://www.helensventitsky.com.


Everything's in an IFrame. I wanted to make everything as simple and maneuverable as possible. The design as it is should make it easy for me to add on a bit here and there, and I'll probably get into trouble for the tag line in the bottom ("Lyrical sharpshooter"? What am I? A rappe...

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Singles available for downloading
10:58pm on June 21, 2008

Hey all,


I have two free downloads available from my latest CD, Monochrome In Technicolor, for you to access and (hopefully) enjoy. These are the two official "singles".


Incident At Motel 6


Withdrawal Symptoms


I've had both of these songs described as electronica-based folk tunes (though you can actual...

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I've Got a small favor to ask of any and all random passersby
3:09am on June 10, 2008

Check my Myspace blog for details.  Thanks much!

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9:03pm on April 17, 2008

I've been following the Twitterings of "BuckHollywood" lately, and today, he informed his followers of one of YouTube's Featured Videos of the day - a young man daring users to describe their life in 6 six words as it's happening right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOJO2wWtaF8

Even though I'm a bit old/not emo enough to do this thing, I thought it was a rath...

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Full CD now available in .zip for download
10:59pm on April 3, 2008

Hey all!

Until the hardcopy comes out (should be late April) the new CD, Monochrome In Technicolor, can also be downloaded from the official website.

Official Album Download Page

Recorded in February as part of the RPM Challenge, this lo-fi yet lush masterpiece currently comes in the form of 9 fully mastered, high-quality 128 kbps MP3s, a 12 page PDF of album artwork and lyrics, and a .jpg of the album cover, for associat...

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Tracks from the New CD now available online!
10:16pm on April 2, 2008

Hey all!

All the songs from my upcoming CD release Monochrome in Technicolor are now available online! You can preview a few of them here, but you can download either one, a few or ALL of the tracks from my soundclick music page. If you would like them all in one big fat zip file with art and everything, that will be coming later this week!

In the meantime, feel free to listen, comment, and...

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9:48pm on March 30, 2008

I originally posted this on YouTube.  Enjoy...

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Now on Ilike...
9:29pm on March 30, 2008

Hello all,

As many of you do (don't deny it, you do!), I did a vanity search on Google, and found that, somehow, someway, iLike created a profile for me by default.  Huh?  

Anyway, I was able to claim it, and here I am moving into my already built home.

I'm also on Facebook, but I have two profiles there, since I have one that was prebuilt using iLike, and I have another one for friends that I built myself.

Anyway, it just so happens that I will b...

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