Josh Ottum
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Josh Ottum is an American
musician and songwriter
.Hartse, Joel (29 June 2006). What's got into Josh Ottum?, Times-Standard
Ottum recorded Like The Season, his solo debut, from October 2005 - June 2006. The album was released in the fall of 2006 in Europe by Tapete Records
, along with an EP
, Who Left The Lights On?. Ottum was part of the 2006 Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg
, Germany
, and toured extensively through Europe in November 2006 and May 2007. Mill Pond Records released the EP, It's Alright in May 2007. Ottum was part the Sit Down and Sing tour with Rosie Thomas
and Nicolai Dunger
in April 2008.
LPs
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
musician and songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
.Hartse, Joel (29 June 2006). What's got into Josh Ottum?, Times-Standard
Times-Standard
The Times-Standard is the only major local daily newspaper covering the far North Coast of California. Headquartered in Eureka, the paper provides coverage of international, national, state and local news in addition to entertainment, sports, and classified listings...
Ottum recorded Like The Season, his solo debut, from October 2005 - June 2006. The album was released in the fall of 2006 in Europe by Tapete Records
Tapete Records
Tapete Records is an independent record label from Hamburg, GermanyIt was founded in 2002 by Gunther Buskies and Dirk Darmstaedter and primarily focused on Deutschpop-bands such as Erdmöbel, Niels Frevert, Tele and Anajo...
, along with an EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
, Who Left The Lights On?. Ottum was part of the 2006 Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, and toured extensively through Europe in November 2006 and May 2007. Mill Pond Records released the EP, It's Alright in May 2007. Ottum was part the Sit Down and Sing tour with Rosie Thomas
Rosie Thomas
Rosie Thomas is an American singer-songwriter, originally from Michigan. It was through mutual friends that she met Trey Many and began playing shows with Velour 100. They recorded one EP together and played a few short tours, where she met Damien Jurado and Pedro the Lion...
and Nicolai Dunger
Nicolai Dunger
Nicolai Dunger is a singer and acoustic songwriter from Piteå in Sweden. He has released twelve EPs and albums, singing primarily in English, and collaborated notably with Will Oldham, the Esbjörn Svensson jazz trio and Ebbot Lundberg. He also records under the alias A Taste of Ra...
in April 2008.
Discography
EPs- Who Left The Lights On? (Europe)- November 7, 2006
- It's Alright (U.S.)- May 15, 2007
LPs
- Like The Season (Europe) - November 15, 2006(12 March 2007). Josh Ottum: "Like the Season", Der StandardDer StandardDer Standard is an Austrian national daily newspaper which is published in Vienna . It was founded by Oscar Bronner as a financial newspaper and the first edition was published on 1988-10-19...
(in German) - Like The Season (U.S.) - October 20, 2009
- Watch TV (2011)(20 July 2011). Josh Ottum wärmt das Herz mit Westcoast-Songs, Bocholter-Borkener Volksblatt (in German)Raggett, Ned (30 June 2011). Local Record Review: 'Watch TV' by Josh Ottum, OC WeeklyOC WeeklyOC Weekly, a sister publication of both LA Weekly and The Village Voice, is a free, left-wing weekly paper distributed in Orange County, California and also in Long Beach....