Fazerdaze Research Paper

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Fazerdaze performs an intimate show in Manila

Fazerdaze, who? A question most would certainly ask, as I did when hearing the concert announcement. Fazerdaze may be far from a household name, none-the-less firing on all cylinders with a musically tight performance in Manila at the 20:20 Bar last Saturday night. Certainly, a quick background check may be in order here. Amelia Murray, the singer/songwriter hailing from New Zealand at 24 years of age is Fazerdaze. Although Murray tours with a three-piece band, the recorded music is basically all her, skillfully performing on all instruments. An impressive combination of tender vocal arrangements, soothing guitar riffs, pleasing synth programming and a lyrical sensibility that lays it all on the line. At a young age, Murray’s parents enrolled her into piano lessons, as many parents will do. Consequently, she lost interest rather quickly, as most kids will do, moving on to explore other things. As fate would have it, entering her teen years she was inspired to pick up a guitar and she has run with it from there. …show more content…

In high school and college, she participated in numerous attempts to establish a band, but none of them panned out so she decided to go solo. Fazerdaze has been steadily gaining exposure on the international stage, opening for acts like Explosions in the Sky, Frankie Cosmos, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra or attending the Red Bull Music Academy in Montreal and taking the main stage at the Laneway Festival in Auckland. Currently promoting her latest EP, Morningside, headlining a seven-city Southeast Asia tour coming off shows in Japan, then heading out to Hong Kong. 

Murray humbled addressed the crowd, “I can’t believe I’m here in

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