Alessi’s Ark

Alessi’s Ark may be the brainchild of Alessi Laurent-Marke, a Uk songbird whose lilting, folk-tinged music helped propel her from MySpace’s inner group towards the roster of Virgin Information. Laurent-Marke began seeking a songwriting profession at age 16, having appeased her parents using a promise to come back to college if nothing occurred within one year’s period. Virgin agreed upon the budding musician at that moment, nevertheless, and Laurent-Marke quickly decamped to Nebraska to hone her abilities by using Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott (two-thirds from the indie folk clothing Bright Eye). Mogis and Walcott supplied the support for Laurent-Marke’s debut EP, The Equine, which matched her sparse story book ballads with flashes of orchestral pop. A full-length record, Notes in the Treehouse, implemented in early 2009. Although she discovered a fair quantity of achievement and a assortment of committed fans following the discharge of her debut, Laurent-Marke still left the major-label stresses of Virgin for the talent-generating climes of Bella Union. Her initial discharge in the label was the EP Spirit Proprietor this year 2010. A calendar year later her initial full-length in the indie label, Period Travel, appeared and noticed Laurent-Marke developing her significant storytelling skill. She after that decamped to America on her behalf third record and caused another Conor Oberst-affiliated manufacturer, Andy LeMaster (Azure Ray, Drive-By Truckers), in his Atlanta, Georgia studio room. Entitled The Still Lifestyle, the record premiered in 2013.