Folk pop with a crisply resonant voice and intensely personal lyrics that will open your heart.

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FOLK: like Joni, POP: Quirky



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Singer/songwriter/musician Atoosa has been performing New York City gigs, touring, and making appearances on local and regional radio for the release of her third album, Night of the Deep Bloom. She describes her folk pop sound as "warm, hopeful, alternative, haunting at times, classically influenced, spacious, lyrical, truthful, and from the heart, baby!" With her crisply resonant voice, Atoosa has been compared to Tori Amos, and in poetic piano songs like "Yellow Reversal" and "Question for You," she explores love and hope, devastation and desire, in her unflinchingly honest search for truth. Her intensely personal lyrics, captivating vocals, and magnetic stage presence have been transcending musical boundaries while garnering audience attention and critical acclaim.

Compelled by her passion for music, Atoosa went on to gig widely in New York City at venues such as The Bitter End, The Living Room, and Sidewalk Café, and to release "Out of the Jar," produced by Emily Lazar, and her self-produced second album, "Sound Travels Up," which she describes as "my hopeful twist on twisted things." Both received rave reviews. CDBaby Magazine wrote of "Out of the Jar," "sparkling piano, shimmering strings, widely varied percussion, fragile-yet-confident vocals, and heavenly guitar combine and shine in this well-rounded and musically complex CD." Of "Sound Travels Up," musicdish.com wrote, "Atoosa's own blend of pop, folk and raw, un-genre'd ballad style is a persuasive argument against NO....This CD is very strong, and lets us witness the poet that has taken the time to craft such pretty flowers."

Atoosa explains that she thinks of her new album as "complete darkness with one faint light shining," created out of a difficult time of struggle for her. She courageously uses her life experiences in her songs to "tell the truth from (her) perspective," hoping all the while to "spread hope" for her listeners, "no matter how dark it is."

Derek Sivers, President of CDbaby.com, lauds Atoosa as "creative and delicious," and collectedsounds.com wrote, "I can't wait to hear what she does next!" Her next effort has arrived and lives up to the expectation and buzz. With its release, Atoosa excitedly looks forward to continued local gigs, touring and media appearances, and especially, "learning more about this world we inhabit," and continuing to uplift and inspire audiences by "having the freedom to be who you really are." Because to Atoosa, that is what her music is all about.