The Editor’s pick of videos by some awfully talented people.
Eclectic Extraordinaire
Songstress Eliza Rickman first crossed the RedFence radar when she opened for Nick Jaina at a tiny art gallery venue in LA. That night she snared us with her haunting melodies and bittersweet lyrics, performed one-man-band style on an antique toy piano, bass drum, and kazoo.
Here, her off-kilter style and intense creativity find excellent outlet in a music video for which she apparently had to mouth the entire song in reverse.
Eliza grew up here in Southern California, the daughter of a Baptist preacher and heiress to a 120-year-old family piano that shaped her musical life from childhood. She found her musical niche near the end of her time at Azusa Pacific University, where she studied ragtime piano, arranging, and voice. She bought her, now signature, toy piano for purely pragmatic reasons when she started playing local gigs. But the instrument soon loomed large in her musical journey, and became the centerpiece for her new album, Gild the Lily.
RF will continue to follow Eliza in coming months, so stay tuned. You can find her new music video here.
Some biographical information provided by Eliza Rickman’s Facebook profile
