Lauri Kranz sings quietly. Quiet enough to drive most sound engineers half crazy. It is a voice that draws the listener to her, invites them in.

Her second release, All This Time We Could Have Been Friends, is a haunting 6 song mini-album, filled sparsely with piano, organs and melancholic guitars. It was recorded in Los Angeles with a coterie of musicians including Jeff Martin (Idaho), Josh Grange (Victoria Williams) and Buddy Judge (Aimee Mann, Liz Phair).

In the three years since the release of Kranz's debut album How to Disappear, the songwriter has lived in as disparate cities as Paris, France and Hartford, CT. "They are not as different as you might imagine," says Kranz, "no matter where you travel, you still end up with yourself."

Lauri Kranz is happy to be back home in Los Angeles, playing music with her friends.

To Fall - from the new CD "All This Time We Could Have Been Friends" - is available as a free MP3 download. Click here to download. (PC users right click to save the file. MAC users click and hold to save the file.)

You can also download this song free and find out more at http://www.laurikranz.net/ and buy the record at www.cdbaby.com 

Adrina Thorpe

On the CD Baby web site, you will read all sorts of excellent reviews about this album, and the description is as follows:

Singer/songwriter and pianist, Adrina Thorpe, is a refreshing sound in adult alternative pop. Her style reflects the softer side of music, but that doesn't mean it doesn't shake people up. With a haunting voice and delicate touch at the piano, Adrina captures every audience and sends them on an emotion filled journey with her heartfelt lyrics.

Adrina has been writing songs almost as long as she can remember. Her first song was written on a rainy car ride home when she was six. "All I can remember is looking through the foggy streaked window at little bursts of light outside in the pitch black sky, hearing the sound of the car's engine, and coming up with a song that brought me to tears that night. It was a song about a friend of mine who left our school without ever saying goodbye." From that day on, Adrina's love of the more introspective melancholy song was established, as Adrina's list of favorite artists goes to show...

Adrina has been inspired by artists on all ends of the musical spectrum, including Sarah McLachlan (Adrina's all time favorite artist), Coldplay, Five for Fighting, Tori Amos, Paula Cole, Dido, Evanescence and Chantal Kreviazuk. However her sound still retains its uniqueness. This may quite possibly be attributed to the fact that during Adrina's formative years she was completely immersed in classical music and musical theater.

Sometimes beauty must emerge from ashes and that is, metaphorically speaking, how Adrina's musical career began. Adrina's father, a stunning classical pianist, died tragically young due to an unexpected heart attack at the age of thirty-four... three weeks after Adrina was born. After his death, Adrina's mother sentimentally decided that Adrina must learn to play piano. Throughout the years, Adrina went on to learn piece after classical piece, winning competitions statewide for performance. But it was the love of writing that held Adrina's soul. Often, Adrina would slip into the front room of the house and play her emotions out on the piano to the simple moonlight falling on the piano keys through the vaulted windows.

Adrina's debut album, "elusive" is full of intricate, poignant, honest, and gentle emotion. Delicate piano melodies and lush vocals weave in and out of each other, drifting amid the punchy bass and drum lines. Wild and tame, strong and simple... the songs find their way into the deepest crevices of the heart. Like paper-thin china...like sunrise on the gray ocean waves...Adrina's melodies captivate listeners with their distinct beauty.

Perhaps it was inevitable that Adrina would be a musician. And perhaps today, it was inevitable that her music found you.