about The Mieka Canon:

“We may or may not have stalked Mieka initially…” - Brian and Andrew

The Mieka Canon was born of two seperate entities. Mieka Pauley began as a solo artist in Boston. Her haunting voice and heartbreaking lyrics gained her more than a few fans, securing her bills with Citizen Cope, KT Tunstall, Natasha Bedingfield, Ben Kweller, Mason Jennings, John Legend, the Avett Brothers and many others, and winning her the first ever Starbucks Emerging Artist Award, the New York Songwriters Circle Songwriting Contest and much more. Her love affair with vocalists and poets led her to study and understand the art of singing, inside and out. But her obsession with words and melodies left a void she desperately needed filled: to realize the music she heard in her head, but did not understand enough to create.

Enter Brian Cassagnol and Andrew Morgan, just a few miles away, obsessing about soundscapes and the power of electric guitars. In the beginning they were fans, introduced to Mieka’s aching songs at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club. They initially began playing as her backup band, but each side quickly realized their artistic complement in the other, and a beautiful collaboration began. Brian produced Mieka’s 2007 album, Elijah Drop Your Gun, and fans enthusiastically validated the project by financing the record in its entirety.

The collaboration between the three artists was critically solidified when the band, under Mieka’s moniker, was named Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Fun Fearless Female Rockstar of the Year at the end of 2008, though Mieka claims full credit for the gender. In August 2009, they officially acknowledged their entanglement and began performing together as The Mieka Canon, releasing their first EP, From the Mouth of Paris.

“This is the first time I have actually liked my own music,” Mieka says.

So, the music: Imagine Radiohead tiptoeing silently behind Patty Griffin as she makes her way backstage. Imagine Jeff Buckley in drag, singing along loudly at a Nirvana concert. Imagine Death Cab hiding in the back of an Emily Dickinson reading. The band describes their music as “mainstream indie rock” and feels the contradiction perfectly describes their obsessions.

about Mieka Pauley:

from daytrotter.com: Beauty In The Business Of Toughness (excerpts) by Sean Moeller

… Pauley, who has recently been Twitter-friended by Rivers Cuomo-dueting Rainn Wilson and championed by Cosmopolitan magazine of all things, forms a kind of bluesy-folk rock and roll that doesn’t pander to any easy clichés or dialogue, as that sort of music so often does … She brings words to her tongue that don’t feel to be of difficult conception, as if they are the particles that have just been swishing around her canals and veins for all of her eternity, which is the only eternity that matters much. They are the pieces of her that she’s never going to get rid of and it comes out as music that will make you feel minty and it will make you feel misty and just the right temperature – where the sun’s blazing down on you on an otherwise chilly day. She takes fate on a day-to-day basis and that could be the smartest thing anyone can do …