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New Buffalo live in Melbourne, 2004
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| Birth name | Sally Russell |
| Also known as | Sally Seltmann |
| Born | 1975 |
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| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Label(s) | Dot Dash |
| Associated acts | Lustre 4 Spdfgh |
| Website | Official website |
New Buffalo is Melbourne-based singer, songwriter, and performer Sally Seltmann (born 1975) - otherwise known as Sally Russell before her marriage to Darren Seltmann of The Avalanches. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Singer-songwriter is a term that refers to Performers who write, compose and sing their own material including Lyrics In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Dot Dash Recordings is a collaboration between the two companies - Remote Control Records which provides publicity marketing and label management while Inertia Distribution Spdfgh (pronounced 'spədə'fəgə'hə were an all-female Rock band from Sydney, Australia in the 1990s The Avalanches is an Electronic music group from Melbourne, Australia, best known for its live DJ sets and debut album Since I Left You
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Sally grew up in Sydney where she was the vocalist and one of the founding members of power pop group Lustre 4, as well as playing guitar in Spdfgh in the 1990s. Power pop (or powerpop) is a popular Musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and Rock music. Spdfgh (pronounced 'spədə'fəgə'hə were an all-female Rock band from Sydney, Australia in the 1990s She then moved to Melbourne and re-invented her musical style to create New Buffalo. She adopted a sound that replaced guitars with keyboards over smooth paced bass and soothing beats.
New Buffalo's debut release was in February 2000 via Ben Lee's web site by way of a MP3 download of the track "16 Beats". Benjamin Michael Lee (born September 11, 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is an ARIA Award winning Jewish Australian MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a Digital audio encoding format using a form of Lossy data compression The following year she signed with Modular Recordings and released the debut EP, About Last Night, featuring the aforementioned track. It was also released in the United Kingdom through Heavenly Recordings, which saw New Buffalo invited to tour throughout the UK supporting Ed Harcourt. Heavenly Records, aka Heavenly Recordings, is a London -based Record label, distributed by EMI. Ed Harcourt (born August 14, 1977) is an English Singer-songwriter from Sussex.
In 2002, Sally recorded some songs in Los Angeles with Jake Davies, but after Heavenly withdrew their financial support, she decided to set up her own home studio in melbourne. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West This where she wrote, arranged and produced her debut album, The Last Beautiful Day, which was released in Australia in September 2004 on Dot Dash. Dot Dash Recordings is a collaboration between the two companies - Remote Control Records which provides publicity marketing and label management while Inertia Distribution The album features special guest appearances by Beth Orton on backing vocals and Jim White of Dirty Three on drums. Elizabeth Caroline Orton, commonly known as Beth Orton, (born December 14, 1970) is a BRIT Award –winning English Singer-songwriter Dirty Three are an instrumental trio consisting of Warren Ellis (violin Mick Turner (electric guitar and Jim White (drums originating from Melbourne
In July 2005 a self-titled EP was released featuring two new songs - a collaboration with composer Rae Howell, and a duet with Sweden's Jens Lekman - plus re-mixes and re-worked versions of songs from the debut album. Jens Martin Lekman (pronounced "Yens" born February 6 1981 in Angered, Sweden) is a Swedish Indie pop
On 24 March, 2007, Sally released her second LP, "Somewhere Anywhere. "
Sally also co-wrote the song "1234" (originally called "Sally's Song") which was co-written and recorded by Feist and released on her album "The Reminder". Leslie Feist (born 13 February 1976 in Amherst Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter. The song was featured in a 2007 iPod Nano commercial and transformed Feist's career. The iPod Nano (marketed lowercase as iPod nano) is a Portable media player designed and marketed by Apple Inc. [1] By proxy, Sally's New Buffalo project became better known as she was mentioned in a number of publications, including Entertainment Weekly, which named her as an artist to watch in September of 2007.