Kevin Bronson on August 3rd, 2011

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Depending on your weather patterns, the gothic dream-pop of Cerise Leang – who just goes by Cerise, thank you – can be haunting or enchanting. It is at the very least cinematic, which is no surprise given that the Brooklyn-based songstress’s acting career and that her first foray into the arts was in film school, before, as she says, “I just bought a guitar and started writing songs.” She’s recorded some of them with Joseph Arthur producing. She had made a couple of videos for him back in 2008, and when the two convened to work on her guitar-and-vocals tracks, he was a quick study. “He knew what kind of music I liked and got it immediately,” Cerise says. “He’s like a one-man band anyway, so he just came in and worked very fast.” With nine songs finished or nearly so, Cerise hopes to decide on release plans by the end of the summer – a summer she has decided to spend in L.A.

||| Download: “Smoke Screen Dreams”

||| Live: Cerise plays Tuesday, Aug. 9, at Lot 1 Cafe as part of Buzz Bands LA’s SecondTuesday songwriter night.

Photo by Tina Rivera