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MUSIC > Haale
Bronx-born/Persian American HAALE can rock many worlds, creating new dimensions that are rare and courageous. Global Rhythm Magazine has already acknowledged her impact, voting her one of the "15 Artists sure to make big waves in the future," right alongside Sigur Ros, The Gift, and Anima Sound System.
Within a year of picking up a guitar, HAALE mesmerized unassuming audiences at the 1997 HORDE tour when she opened for Neil Young, sharing her poetry-infused folk-alt-rock music. Her full-length debut, The Wide-Eyed Seamstress, charted on CMJ radio stations across the country in 2001, winning accolades from seasoned music-lovers ("In my eight years of music journalism, I haven't come across many discs more passionate and searching than this" YRB). In the same year, she received recognition and awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Goodman Grant for Poetry.
Since that time, HAALE, whose name aptly means "Halo around the moon," has been drawing more and more from her Persian roots, creating a quintessentially hybrid sound that simultaneously reflects her New York and Persian background; manifesting a poetic cross-cultural rock explosion. In the unique space that vocal talents such as the Cocteau Twins, Sigur Ros, and Manu Chao explore, Haale's vocal powers lie in a world without political and ethnic borders by effortlessly mixing languages while creating her own unique expression. Her music is epic: in a world between Zeppelin and Radiohead, Umm Kulthum, and T-Rex. HAALE is a full-on 21st century American woman defying clichéd categorization.
HAALE's infectious melodies ride the cosmic driving force of her ensemble that includes some of New York's finest rock musicians: Rodney Holmes, Keith Carlock, Bill Foster, Shazad Ismaily, and Christopher Buono. She alternates between strumming her setar and plucking her guitar, wailing in Persian and English and a language in between the two, existing in a music that is both earthly and celestial.
Haale's website
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