Lonely Drifter Karen are a multi-national pop band, based in Brussels, Belgium. The band consists of Austrian singer Tanja Frinta, keyboarder and producer Marc Melià Sobrevias from Spain and the two Frenchmen Maxime Malon on drums and Clément Marion on guitar, who joined the band in 2012.
Biography
Started as a solo project by Viennese-born Tanja Frinta while she was living in Sweden, Lonely Drifter Karen became a band when Frinta moved to Barcelona and met Italian drummer Giorgio Menossi and Majorcan keyboard player and arranger Marc Meliá Sobrevias. From December 2006 until January 2008 Frinta and Melià recorded the debut album, Grass is Singing, which was released by Crammed Discs in May 2008 in Europe, June 2008 in the United States and September 2008 in Canada. The Canadian release of the album is in collaboration with Montreal-based Semprini Records, who also released Lonely Drifter Karen's 7-inch "The Owl Moans Low" in July 2008. The Grass Is Singing album was enthusiastically welcomed by the press in several European countries
Discography
Albums
Poles (CD or Vinyl) Crammed Discs, 2012
Fall of Spring (CD or Vinyl) Crammed Discs, 2010
"Dis-In-Motion" "Show Your Colours" "Russian Bells" "Railroad" "Ready to Fall" "Something's Scorching" "A Roof Somewhere" "Julien" "Eventually" "Side by Side" "Wonderous Ways" "Seeds" (feat. Emily Jane White) "Seasonal Things" (Download Bonus Track)
Grass Is Singing (CD) Crammed Discs, 2008
"This World is Crazy" "The Angels Sigh" "Passengers of the Night" "The Owl Moans Low" "Climb" "Casablanca" "Professor Dragon" "Salvation" "Carousel Horses" "True Desire" "Giselle" "No True Woman" "La Hierba Canta"
EPs
La chouette (Digital EP) Crammed Discs, 2009
"La Chouette (The Owl Moans Low)" "La Hierba Canta" (Album Version)
The Owl Moans Low (EP) 7" Semprini Records, Crammed Discs, 2008
"The Owl Moans Low" "Stray Melodies" "River"
Sinsweetime 10" (green artwork) or CD single (yellow cardboard) Fettkakao, 2003
"The Pure Heart Sin" "Beautiful Shock" "Some Summer Days" "Sweet (Swing) Time"
Videos
The Owl Moans Low (directed by Christina Luschin) This World Is Crazy (directed by Miguel Eek)