Under My Skin

Truth seeker, world traveler, and multidisciplinary artist with a velvety voice and four-octave range inspires with soulful folk from the heart. 'Carla Seidl is traveling back to a modern tradition that has been much neglected of late, that of reveling in the female voice...the CD is a feast of her sumptuous talent....' - Mark S. Tucker, Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange 'a collection of well-crafted songs and a stunning vocal showcase' - J. Turner, Indie-Music.com 'Carla Seidl has this wonderfully distinctive voice made up of honey, amber and wood timbres, almost achieving a dual tone in her sound that is warm and memorable.' -Wildy's World 'With a blend of folk, acoustic, and a touch of jazz, Seidl's release proves her versatility....deep and classically soulful vocals....By track two the listener realizes this is unlike any album he has heard before....Seidl is a breath of fresh air....' -Annie Reuter, ReviewYou 'Folk music for the soul.' -WESU 88.1, Middletown, CT 'For a short time my ears became the receiving echo of your thoughts and depth. Loved your melodies and lyrics, they say volumes.' -Karlin Mathew, Folk Alley Carla has been singing for as long as she can remember, in no small part thanks to the influence of her mother, who performed songs and stories for children at local schools and libraries and sang with Carla frequently. Carla has sung everything from a cappella, to show tunes, to vocal jazz, to opera over the years, always involved in one ensemble or another. In high school, on Long Island, Carla was named an All-State Singer and received the National School Choral Award and the Catherine Silveri Award for dedication and sensitivity in music. While at Harvard, Carla was a member of the elite Collegium Musicum choir and performed in Dunster House Opera and Gilbert and Sullivan Players' productions. But it wasn't until relatively recently that Carla decided to try out a different sound, one closer to the one she had loved and grown up with as a child. She slowly began to teach herself to play the guitar, and the instrument accompanied her through the many travels of her early and mid twenties-from teaching in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, to leading tours in Death Valley, to studying in Chile, to researching storytelling in Argentina, to studying documentary radio in Portland, Maine, where Carla finally started to write and perform her own songs. Carla's depth of experiences and understanding of foreign cultures are evident in the selection of songs on her debut album. While at Harvard, she designed her own major, called Expression and Culture Studies, to combine her interests in writing, folklore, anthropology, music, foreign language, and dance. It was at this time that Carla studied Italian and first heard and connected with Lucilla Galeazzi's beautiful song quot;Quante Stelle nel Cielo con la Luna,quot; (How Many Stars are in the Sky with the Moon), her own version of which is featured on the CD. Despite her early academic achievement, Carla has found greatest happiness off of the beaten path. She is always seeking to understand the world around her, and isn't satisfied with trivial answers. It is this relentless searching and questioning that has given her such meaningful experiences over the years: in addition to the travels above, Carla has completed an Outward Bound wilderness course, mountain biked down the world's most dangerous road in Bolivia, worked as a private cook, done organic farming in Italy, and spent over