Dutch-American Kramies Windt has presented his romantic, big-and-open-hearted pop songs through a line of fine EPs: The European (2011); The Wooden Heart (2013, promoted by its title track The Wooden Heart); and the splendid The Folklore Sessions (2014). This spring, Kramies launched a brand new single, The Fate That Never Favored Us (produced by Jason Lytle) before he went on tour in France and recorded this live EP called Forêts Antiques.
I would be foolish to deny that Kramies has hung in my ears for almost two years, since the virtually ectoplasmic presence and ethereal beauty of the sound of his “Wooden Heart”, audible and visual twice, one by the excellent work of Jerome Sevrette for the artwork, and the other for the imaging facility inspired by the sounds and the same person Kramies, frail seated figure in his chair, as a small kid shaggy blond on the scene, powerful simplicity, fragile in the vastness.
This is a dream. An American dream. That of an artist still little known among us but which could become the next big revelation of independent music. Kramies is a singer born in Ohio and currently living in the mountains of Colorado. At 14, he received a guitar as a gift for Santa Claus. This is the beginning of a long love story between the young American and the instrument so inspiring.
April 8, Kramies was happening on the stage of the Grand Théâtre d’Angers, opening Group A Singer Must Die. Exceptional service, where training conducted by Manuel Ferrer was accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra of Anjou, in his symphonic dimension. “Forests Antiques” is the uptake concert by the American songwriter, and includes some tracks of these EPs The Wooden Heart and The Fate That Never Favored Us (products and accompanied by Jason Lytle Grandaddy).