Numbers And Letters
Numbers And Letters
Brooklyn, NY
Folk / Alt-Country / Americana
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Fronted by singer/songwriter Katie Hasty, Numbers And Letters' songs are sparse, lush and sad, with a tinge of hope that comes from growing up in a flat, quiet place.
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True Americana doesn't often come via New York , but that's exactly what Numbers And Letters has emerged with, spurred on from years of songwriting, drinking, church-attending, pool-playing and living in the former industrial wasteland that is north Brooklyn . Fronted by singer/songwriter Katie Hasty, Numbers And Letters' songs are sparse, lush and sad, with a tinge of hope that comes from growing up in a flat, quiet place.
From the suburbs of Kansas City , Hasty moved to Chicago New York
Numbers And Letters was a project formed from her songwriting and, after a time of rotating through different casts of characters, a band was formed of five constants. Guitarist/noisemaker Clifton Hyde has played with an eclectic array of acts like Sigur Ros, Mandy Moore and Lou Reed, guitarist Joe Lops cut his teeth in a number of projects in Portland , Maine including Cult Maze before moving to New York
"Numbers And Letters" was recorded by Sammy Rubin (Project Jenny, Project Jan) throughout 2007 at Music For Picture in Manhattan
The EP's packaging is hand-made using partly recycled materials, with each "case" hand-numbered and 100% unique. And it's given away for free. Why? "Because I want you to feel a connection to the acquisition of music. The packaging is hand-made for now because I wanted a physical release to be a literal artifact, a record, of time and place," Hasty wrote in a recent newsletter. "In an ideal world, I'd rather listeners have a tangible experience with the music -- a minor physical commitment to discovery -- and for now I don't want cost to inhibit its dissemination." That, and free is always funner.
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