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Camomile

Many days of the week Camomile is trying to catch the melodies floating around her head, a little like catching butterflies in a net. When she least expects it, the net contains something shimmering and full of life. Camomile’s self titled EP, and the forthcoming full length debut album Black Horses, explore joy, loss, alienation, and the longing to know the Divine.

Camomile’s music has been influenced by such artists as U2, Yes, Tori Amos, Bjork, Radiohead, Natalie Merchant, Sigur Ros, Peter Gabriel, Dave Matthews, Phillip Glass, Sting, Roxy Music, REM, Morrissey, The Cure, David Bowie, Jeff Buckley, Led Zepplin, Heart, Sarah Mclaughlin, Blondie, Pat Benatar, Nussrat Fatah Ali Kahn, Ravi Shankar, and Kate Bush.

In addition to composing and singing, Camomile plays guitar, ukulele, harmonium and autoharp. Camomile trained with vocal coach Edna Lind, who sang with the Metropolitian Opera Company and coached many of its singers, and with Mala Ganguly, the renowned vocalist from Calcutta, who taught her the light classical and devotional music of North India.

Camomile believes her songs are of unknown origin, and when one appears, she tries to transmit it without interference. She knows the songs come from a magical place, which always remains elusive. This is the place where the answers to the riddles lie. She believes that we are all divine but we have forgotten that truth, and the music helps us remember.

Camomile’s early childhood was built around music. Her father is a drummer who toured the US extensively with his rock band and the whole family went along hippy-style. During that time, Camomile saw the joy and the power of music and became enraptured by watching the people in the audience experience something they needed and loved. Her mother is a singer whose love of music was communicated on a daily basis at home with the records that were played from artists like The Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac. Camomile’s grandparents piped classical music continuously into every room of their house. She remembers locking herself in the bathroom as a young girl and making up her own words to the arias coming out of the speaker in the ceiling.

Camomile is also a multifaceted visual artist with a great love of modern, contemporary, and conceptual art as well as interior design, filmmaking and clothing design. 'Art is everywhere and in every thing, all we have to do is recognize it and be inspired'.

Camomile is currently writing music for a record of Bhajans, or chants, which will fuse East Indian instruments including the tablas, Sitar, Sorod, Tampura, and Harmonium with western guitar and electronica. The ethereal vocals will blend Bengali, Sanskrit and English. Camomile is always interested in the progress of music and ways of blending the ancient sounds of the past and incorporating technology to create music for the future.

Music is a universal language naturally designed to promote harmony and understanding in a discordant world. It is the olive branch and the greatest known ambassador for world peace. Rhythm and the shared love of it can bring empathy and brother and sisterhood regardless of religious denomination.

Camomile is an environmentalist who is devoted to human rights, women’s issues, resolving world poverty, and kindness to animals. Please visit the list of links.

Use your spending power to create a cleaner, greener Earth (biggreenpurse.com).

Bono’s ONE Organization. Erasing the debt of the poorest countries (one.org).

VH1 Save the Music Foundation. ‘Restoring music education in public schools’ (VH1.com/partners/save_the _music/).

National Resourse Defense Council. Environmental Issues and conservation (nrdc.org).

The World Wildlife Fund (worldwildlife.org).

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (peta.org).

Stop wearing fur (furisdead.com).

Solve the climate crisis with Al Gore (climateprotect.org).

U.S. Green Building Council (usgbc.org).

Purchase Carbon Offsets (v-c-s.org).

Human rights information at Amnesty International (amnesty.org)

Human Rights Watch (hrw.org).