Adel Bengo

about

Adel Bengo was born on December 16, 1987, and has secretly been making music somewhere in the outskirts of Jacksonville, Florida since she was a child. It began with layering cassette tapes on her parents’ broken karaoke machine until all quality was lost forever, alone with her dog and sister on summer vacations, usually sitting in the patio of a backyard that was being overrun by wildflowers, with the hum of distant prop planes overhead (they lived near a little uncontrolled airport.) The music she makes today is still young music, which can be described as lazy rocknroll/garage pop/lo-fi-alt-country-folk-punk whatever. She is usually found making these recordings in her bedroom alone, keeping the first takes even if that meant feedback, pops, untuned guitars, or any other screw ups on the master tape. Adel began playing shows with her high school band in 2005 and made her first release under the independent record label, Discos Mariscos. It was available as a 7” called “Hoping That You’re Lonely,” recorded with her friends using an mp3 player voice recorder. They played over a dozen shows and didn’t plan for the future. After they disbanded Adel self-released a full length LP in 2008 titled 630AM, which chronicled a relationship that began and ended the previous year. The LP is literally tracklisted in the order the songs were written, and were recorded just for fun over the months, Adel playing all the different parts herself. Little did she know that if she strung it al

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unreleased

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630AM

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Sleeping All Day in Your Room in Your Brain

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www.JustSayinIsAll.com Great Songs of 2007

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when you were young

sleeping dreaming all day, in your room in your brain

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Some Songs 2008-2009

Bedroom Demos

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Sleeping Dreaming All Day in Your Room in Your Brain

The Way You Talk With Your Headphones Still On

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The Sleeping Dreaming All Day, In Your Room In Your Brain EP

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Bonus Tracks

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