Hamburg, Germany
Singer-Songwriter

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"that was called love for the workers in song probably still is for those of them left."

BIOGRAPHY

Musican. Songwriter. Singer. Performer
Former Band: The Jeremy Days.
I record, tour and release albums under my own name and as/with 'Me And Cassity'.
Label: Tapete Records.
Born in Hamburg, grew up in New Jersey and live in Hamburg-Germany now.

LEVEL

professional

GENRES

Alternative Pop, Folk, Alternative Country

Contact

Management: dirk@tapeterecords.com
Label: Tapete Records - www.tapeterecords.com
Booking: Tapete Booking - www.tapetebooking.com

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / harmonica / vocals

INFLUENCES

Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohern, Brian Wilson, Ron Sexsmith, Townes Van Zandt, The Beatles, The Zombies, Lloyd Cole, Wilco,The Turtles,etc etc

DAY JOB

This is my day job! Also help run Tapete Records

I AM INTERESTED IN

in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
with others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Darmstaedter crafts bridges from understatement to pay-off of which a bleaker Neil Finn might be proud. Uncut (UK)------------------------------------------------ Crisp, polished, and incisive, it alternates itchy, restrained verses with gorgeous, crashing-to-the-shore sort of choruses. Fingertips (USA)

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Jessica Lea Mayfield: Look At Miss Ohio

“Things are starting to get weird.”

Jessica Lea Mayfield, whose Nonesuch Records debut Tell Me is in stores now, is on the phone from her home in Ohio and we’re having a good laugh over her recent success. It’s beer o’clock on both ends of the phone, the last interview in a long week of talking to complete strangers for the two of us.

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”