Gitta De Ridder - Come Find Me EP
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| Gitta De Ridder - Come Find Me |
Release Date: Out Now
Dutch songstress Gitta De Ridder
is back with a new EP from her London base and that is something you should be
excited about. Opening track 'All My Mind' is a typical track for De Ridder with
delicate guitars and sensuous strings underpinning her fragile but beautiful
voice tinged with sadness and regret. 'Wished For Stars' picks the tempo up
ever so slightly with some quirky, jerky percussion and acoustic notes rippling
like fresh, clear water over smooth, white pebbles in the kind of idyllic
stream you only find in films about middle England in medieval times. It is on
the stunning 'Come Find Me' that De Ridder really finds her stride, however, as
she creates a groove with hand claps, a simple riff and a tickle of bass guitar
to allow her voice the space to dance around without a care in the world.
Gitta De Ridder's talent lies in
creating moody, atmospheric melodies that could be dark, candlelit spaces but
then lighting them up with her voice which is full of hope and quiet
determination. 'One Thousand Fireflies' is a great example of this dual talent
as a hypnotic riff and subtle percussion pale in to the shadows when that voice
takes full flight. The closing track of this EP is 'This Is Now My Home' and if
you can't identify with the wistful, almost mournful lyrical theme then you
haven't lived enough. There are a whole raft of female singer-songwriters
around at the moment so you have to do something special to stand out and what
I like about Gitta De Ridder's approach to this challenge is that she has gone
for quality and substance over style and bombast. Less, in this case, is most
definitely more.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/gittaderidder/timeline
Listen/Download Here: https://gittaderidder.bandcamp.com/album/come-find-me-ep
Live Dates:
27th February - The Workshop, London
4th March - The Karamel Music Club, London
16th March - The Finsbury, London w/ Lucas & King