Howlin Wuelf Media :: Haroula Rose

So Easy is the second EP from singer-songwriter Haroula Rose, the follow up to her 2011 full-length debut These Open Roads. Later this year, she’ll be releasing her second full-length album, produced with Andy Lemaster (Now It's Overhead, Bright Eyes) and Luke Top (Fool's Gold, Papercuts, Foreign Born) along with Jim White. . These tracks were recorded at a variety of studios around Los Angeles with different producers working on each number. So Easy is being released June 4.

Inspiration for these songs came from Haroula’s anticipation of the coming Spring time and Summer and accordingly most of the selections are upbeat and more fully arranged than her previous efforts. The majority of the So Easy was recorded at The Carriage House in Los Angeles’ Silverlake district with Sheldon Gomberg (Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Harper, Ron Sexsmith, Jackson Browne, The Living Sisters, Lucinda Williams) producing. Along with two Rose originals, her reading of "Only Friends," a rare Francoise Hardy B side, came out of these sessions. The title track was co-written with Jonny Flower and recorded in Echo Park at Magic Carpet Studios with Brad Gordon (Jim Bianco, Raining Jane, Rachael Yamagata and Dan Wilson) playing most of the instrumental parts and producing. "Wichita Lineman" is the Jimmy Webb-penned classic and Haroula re-imagines it as a spoken-word piece; this was recorded at The Bank, in Burbank, CA with Zac Rae, who’s performed the song in concert with no one less than Glen Campbell, producing.

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Haroula Rose grew up in Lincolnwood, Illinois, a town just outside of Chicago. She got her first instrument, the violin, at age 8. As a teenager she was drawn to the music of Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Joan Baez among others and picked up the guitar and started writing her own songs. After graduating from the University of Chicago, an acquaintance got her involved in doing vocal work on commercials.

Soon thereafter, Rose was awarded a Fulbright grant, and moved to Madrid, Spain to live and work. For the next two years, she was involved in various creative projects, taught music and drama to children, and collaborated with other artists and musicians. Haroula managed to travel throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. These travels and observations became the basis for a sizeable body of songs.

Upon returning to the United States, she moved Los Angeles, began playing open mics, then booking shows all around the city and finally touring nationally. A the title from her first release, the Someday EP, showed in the hit CBS TV comedy How I Met your Mother and soon after Azure Ray’s Orenda Fink introduced her to Andy Lemaster and Rose travelled to Athens to record These Open Roads which was released in 2011.

Since that album’s release, Rose has played extensively in Los Angeles and mounted a U.S. tour. Her songs have appeared in SCI FI’s "Being Human," ABC Family’s ”The Lying Game," MTV’s "Awkward," FX’s "American Horror Story," Jamie Travis' feature hit at Sundance, "For A Good Time, Call..." and the award-winning documentary by Marc Smolowitz, "The Power of Two." Her music was also used in a theatrical production on the East Coast called "American English."

Haroula’s fans say her music puts them at ease or makes them feel better and she feels, “That’s always the best compliment, when people say that the songs are honest or that it makes them feel at peace or understood and comforted. It makes me blush and it makes me feel lucky and like I’m on the right path. I want to keep making more music.”