Michelle Chamuel

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Michelle had a live Listening party of her upcoming album at the Rockwood NYC cafe. I got to attend, which was a lot of fun.

Michelle's voice is stunningly beautiful live. It's clear as a bell..just incredible. I thought she was a very good singer from the show, but even more so live. (She's another human auto tone as well. I don't think she hit one bad note. Which is impressive..but she also played a show on NYE in Michigan..outside...where she also didn't miss a note.) I compare Haley's voice to a sax, I think Michelle's tone is most like a violin.

She's really into vocal dynamics..much more so than any singer I've listened too. Funny enough, on television (and in youtube videos a bit too) it can sometimes sound like she's struggling with notes..but on her recordings..and live..you can tell it's intentional. It's almost like..She delivers this delicate small vocal..and it's just..perfect.

It seems like Tyler Duncan and Theo Katzman (both part of Darren Criss' "Listen Up" tour and one was a former bandmate of Michelle's) are both part of the writing process, and likely part of the "Michelle Chamuel" band. Which is great..those guys are a lot of fun, and the group seems to have very good chemistry. (This UMich grad class is great..)

One little tidbit that I don't believe is on video..there were a few girls in the front row who were screaming (ear piercing screams.) It was a very small stage. There were maybe 10 seats on the ground floor, most everyone was standing..and probably 200 people were there total. (at most..). Before about the fourth song, Michelle was going to go more into her acoustic set, she put the mic down, walked over to the girls, shook their hands, asked them their names..and then asked them to stop screaming. (She intended for this to be private, but being it was so small, word got around what she said.) And then told them they were being cute. It was very funny, and I think it made those girls night.

Anyway, a fan caught a majority of the set (except, I believe that moment was edited out) online.

If you only watch one of the videos, I'd suggest this one. Michelle likes to explain how to make music/her musical process. Her genre is "alt. electronic pop." To produce this, she creates these beautiful acoustic simple songs, and builds off of them. This one she sang for us was called "Golden."

I really can't even describe how stunning her voice was live on this song. (Especially considering the difficulty.) But the melody itself is just..so beautiful. I really hope she releases a recording of this as a bonus.



Here is the full version of the song, which will be more like what's on the album.



I also really like "When Did We Lose The Love"


And this was also one of my favorites. I also liked that she had a little growl going with this.