Diane Marie Kloba

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Messages from the Ionosphere

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Messages from the Ionosphere was released May 31, 2005 on Striped Shirt Records.Image

You can listen, buy and download at CD Baby, emusic and many other retailers. 

With Messages from the Ionosphere, I feel I have created my best album yet. It has some of the bigger guitar sounds that I favored before my last CD, I Kid You Not; there's also a couple acoustic numbers and even one with just flute, words, and percussion— more of a poem to a beat. Of course you'll find more songs about star watching and appreciating good things in life... And dreams: more about both the daytime ones and the R.E.M. ones. Of course with my poetry sometimes comes a bit of silliness. I can't help it; I find humor in a lot of seriousness.

 

Some of my new songs:

  • Visitors: About the hopeful prospect of sharing ideas with our neighbors.
  • Like Zero: Lively idea about optimism and the strength you're born with.
  • Boulders: A dream, an emotional poem about an unemotional object.
  • Don't Doubt: About not putting limitations on people.
  • Hello from Illinois: About reaching that place, a little tardy but appreciated.

The music made me feel good, and I hope it does the same for you. I had a lot of fun making this album

Darlene Wentland-Wiktor put lead guitar tracks on a couple songs. Ted Kloba played bass and helped with production.

 Messages from the Ionosphere

 

What's New?

New Review in Illinois Entertainer.

For You Stranger was reviewed in the March 2010 Illinois Entertainer:

Diane Marie Kloba pursues a more avant-garde sound on her latest solo effort, For You, Stranger, than she did as a member of The Silent Workers. At times, her spoken, childlike vocals and spacy arrangements get too cutesy as on the title track, but the sparse “For Inventors” has an intimate charm. “Skurf,” a spooky, guitar-driven instrumental adds a bit of fun, and “Keepable (Drum Experiment)” is an engaging indie-rock tune. (www.dianemariekloba.com)
– Terrence Flamm