Nightjars soars with CA acoustics on debut EP ‘Modjeska’
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The state of California has been played many times on the strings of an acoustic guitar, but it is rare to find a songwriter who can compose an authentically Californian lyric. What remains to be said about the Golden Gate Bridge, the Hollywood sign or the Malibu coastline? Yet these are the images to which the music industry constantly returns.
Enter Nightjars, the solo project of singer-songwriter Adrian Jade Matias Bell, whose debut EP,
Modjeska, dropped May 7. After getting started in the do-it-yourself scenes of Orange County and Los Angeles, Nightjars moved up to the Bay Area and started playing local venues such as 924 Gilman in Berkeley and Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco.