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BANG BANG SUN
(2010)
OK CADAVERS!
(2009)
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Meet Idgy Dean, the self-made garage-pop sing-song celebration. Hear her music: haunted rhythm-driven songs written, performed, recorded and produced somewhere in a basement or a bedroom entirely by the young Miss Lindsay Sanwald. Crafting ditties since the single digits, the self-taught Idgy Dean learned by listening to the likes of a wide range of artists, be it Kate Bush, Nine Inch Nails, the Pixies, Sonic Youth, Björk, My Bloody Valentine, Juana Molina, Brian Eno, or Animal Collective.
Following some teenage years of playing bass in her hometown Hillsborough, New Jersey hardcore band, she moved to New York to study literature at Sarah Lawrence College. At nineteen, she joined Face Parade, a Pavement-esque New York City indie rock group. After two years of banging the drums with the boys all over the city scene, she left the band to live abroad in Florence, Italy. There she formed Le Bilance, a sultry indie-jazz duo of sorts with fellow ex-pat, Erin Cantrell, the Georgia-born Southern belle singer. The two garnered some local fame in Florence for their acoustic sets, which they took back to New York, and still perform to this day.
Shortly after graduating from Sarah Lawrence, Sanwald escaped back to Italy to write solo material while working on a Tuscan farm, gardening summer vegetables in the morning and harvesting songs in the afternoon. Come the winter of 2008, she was off to Argentina for a year with a Fulbright grant to compose an album while teaching literature abroad. Having visited glaciers, jungles, deserts and ruins, and with her sound newly influenced by Argentine folklorico and the Peruvian Pachamama spirit, Idgy Dean has finally returned from her South American song-writing sojourn, ready to introduce herself to the world with the completed 9-song album, OK Cadavers!, recorded in three different continents and independently released on July 6th, 2009.
Presently settled in the East Village of her beloved New York City, she is working on writing and recording a new home studio album, and performing regularly.
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shot by MATT FENNER / styled by DIANA SCIME-SAYEGH (JULY 2009, NYC)
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