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= Still Woozy =

History
Still Woozy is the musical brainchild of 25 year old Sven Gamsky. Gamsky was born and raised in San Francisco, California in a neighborhood called Moraga. Gamsky graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2015 and joined a math rock band in 2011 called Feed Me Jack with fellow students The bank broke up in 2016 and Gamsky formed Still Woozy. Still Woozy released their first song around June 2017. Gamsky is located in Oakland, California. . Gamsky has been playing instruments for 16 years, since the age of 9 and has a background of blues, jazz, folk, and rock.

As for the inspiration behind the name “Still Woozy”, in a 2017 Pigeons and Planes interview, Gamsky stated "'I'm pretty out of it… If you were to ask any of my friends, they'd say I'm always out of it and spacey,' he says. 'I have a tendency to go inside my head. Deep enough where I sometimes forget where I am. But this allows me to go to a really creative space, where my songs come from. In any situation, I'm able to slip into that other place. Even in a room full of people or loud sounds, I can space out for a bit.'"Gamsky’s partner Amiya Kahn-Tietz also creates and paints all the album artwork for Still Woozy.

Gamsky releases each track only hours after it is finished, so listeners have an up-to-date idea of Still Woozy’s progression as a project. Still Woozy has over 1.1 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Still Woozy began gaining popularity when “Cooks” was featured on Spotify’s “Fresh Finds” playlist which has over 20,000 followers. He is currently featured in four Spotify created pages, totaling over 830,000 followers. Gamsky’s most popular songs, “Goodie Bag” and “Cooks” have over 15 million and 7 million Spotify streams respectively as of December 2018, and this has grown rapidly as the two songs had 4 million streams total as of April 2018. His new single, “Lucy”, has almost 6 million Spotify streams.

Musical and Lyrical Style
Gamsky’s music is a mix of electronic and acoustic elements. It can be characterized as “Indie Pop”. His songs tend to have warm instrumentation and a melancholic tone. Gamsky has been inspired by Frank Ocean, Steve Lacy, D’Angelo, Hank Williams, and Department of Eagles. Gamsky takes modern electronic production techniques, but makes a conscious effort to incorporate traditional instrumentation. Gamsky writes all of his songs on guitar, and then adds other instrumentation from there. He writes and records all parts in his garage. He uses a guitar, bass, piano, drum pad, and a Juno 106 synthesizer.

Members
Sven Gamsky (2017-present)

Tours
Still Woozy’s first solo performance was on December 5th, 2017, when he opened for Knox Fortune. Gamsky has also played with Gus Dapperton on April 26th, 2018, and Jasper Bones. Still Woozy begins their “Lately EP” North American tour in January of 2019.

Still Woozy also opened for the Dirty Projectors.

Singles
Vacation 2017

Cooks 2017

Wolfcat 2017

Goodie Bag 2017

Lucy ft. ODIE 2018

Remixes
EP Drugstore Heaven by Houses

Music Videos
Still Woozy has released music videos for the songs “Goodie Bag” and “Cooks”.