The Cloud Hymn
Indie / Folk
Minneapolis, Minnesota / Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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About
A SEED BURIED IN THE GROUND out 03.03.09 on AMBLE DOWN RECORDS.
The Cloud Hymn is the alias of Wisconsin-born, singer-songwriter, John Nielsen. During Nielsen's time in Eau Claire, WI, eleven songs were born in the quiet panic of transition and life-changes, originating in Eau Claire, WI during the mud of colorful leaves and the frost of leaves deceased. The project is a direct result of its debut full-length, A Seed Buried In The Ground.
Nielsen wrote most of the songs found on A Seed Buried In The Ground as a means of coping - for emotional release, and spiritual processing while still attending college. With little intention to pursue much of anything with his music, he broadcasted self-recorded demos for friends to hear and left it at that. Time went by, semesters came and went, Nielsen performed out once or twice, and word eventually spread. Fellow Eau Claire musician, Paul Brandt (Cranes & Crows), heard Nielsen's songs in the spring of 2008, and encouraged the young songwriter to pursue more than just his home-recording hiss.
A Seed Buried In The Ground was recorded over the course of two days in the heat of late June in the attic of a little blue house. Its sound consists of airy guitar and voice played over simple piano melodies - a sound conceived from snow-covered branches lining dark and wet highways in the apathy of winter's quiet splendor. Each song melts together in complete cohesion, making for a lonely and lovely trip through their writer's consciousness. They are whispered melancholy accounts of buttoning up and spilling open, of looking out and looking in. They are pulling for something and someone else.
Nielsen resides in Minneapolis, MN where he is currently in pursuit of his degree in law. The Cloud Hymn is actively performing throughout the region.
Members
John Nielsen
Tani Alyssa
Paul Brandt
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haasmindyj, Mar 12, 2009:
Check out VolumeOne for a short interview with John Neilsen!
cookies and old bicycles, Feb 21, 2009:
like your sound. thank you for creating.
Ruphus Teapot, Feb 11, 2009:
Excellent, excellent tunes, man. Hopefully when I add lyrics to some of my stuff, it can sound half as good as your voice.
Gagosian Liga, Jan 24, 2009:
"We all admire the spangled acrobat with classical grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know." (Vladimir Nabokov)
Thank you for your friendship! Musical greetings from Munich/Germany!
Feel free to download my music!
The Jim Pullman Band, Jan 11, 2009:
SOUNDS GREAT MAN! THANKS FOR THE FRIENDSHIP, JPB
Lemmi, Dec 10, 2008:
Very mellodic music! Keep going!
Lemmi
Ben Rothermel, Dec 5, 2008:
Hi John! Nice mellow sound man!
Ben
Photogurrl, Dec 4, 2008:
Thanks for the add. Cool music. Cheers.
Jayne, Dec 1, 2008:
Thanks for the friending. I love the easiness of your sound. Something very comforting about it.
Melenko, Dec 1, 2008:
Hi ! Thank you! I love your voice and the feel...