TRCP Presents: Jhameel

The last Red Couch Project artist of the quarter was Jhameel, an electronic musician from Berkeley (and the first non-Stanford artist to visit the program). Jhameel is about to blow up the internet, so make sure you know about him before he gets too big and starts doing Accura commercials.

Jhameel did a solo acoustic set for us. His CD (available on iTunes or at www.jhameel.com) sounds a lot different and more full with a backing band, but it was interesting to hear his voice with just the guitar underneath it. His vocals are somewhere between Jónsi and Sufjan Stevens in terms of sheer pixie-tude, but he's a great singer and has a similar interest in glitchy electronica and sound texture. I like his self-released album better, but the sounds of the two are very different.


After the show Emma Sedivy (TRCP co-founder) and I took him and his publicist Ryan on a little nighttime tour of Stanford, including the Gates of Hell and breaking into the football stadium to stargaze, where it was unfortunately too dark to get anything but ghost-y pictures.