| Corrina Repp — The Pattern of Electricity |
Corrina Repp — The Pattern of Electricity (19th May, 2015) 
Location: Portland, Oregon
Album release: 19 May, 2015
Record Label: Caldo Verde Records
Duration: 40:08
Tracks:
1. The Beast Lives in the Same Place 4:13
2. Pattern the Cut/calm Ass Mofo 7:19
3. Live for the Dead 3:07
4. Woods 4:43
5. Another Shape 4:15
6. The Pattern of Electricity 6:05
7. Set Fire 3:26
8. Long Shadow (with Pb) 4:10
9. In the Dark, You're More Colorful 2:50
Members:
Λ− Evan Railton
Λ− Jason Leonard
Λ− All songs recorded by Peter Broderick in November and December of 2014 at The Sparkle in Woods, Oregon
Λ− Except Release Me and Another Shape recorded at Space Barn with Graeme Gibson and also with Evan Railton at Human Resources in Portland, Oregon
Λ− All songs written, played and sung by Corrina Repp
Λ− Peter Broderick sang, played strings, drums, keys, and countless other things and parts
Λ− Evan Railton played drums and keys on Release Me and Another Shape
Λ− Graeme Gibson played drums, piano and keys on Release Me, and Another Shape
Λ− Brandon Summers played guitar on Set Fire
Λ− Mixed by The Helio Sequence
Λ− Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering
Λ− Design by Ashod Simonian
© Corrina Repp The Beast Lives In The Same Place Credit Scott Ballard
Bandcamp: https://corrinarepp.bandcamp.com/album/the-pattern-of-electricity
Discolexique: http://discolexique.com/artiste/corrina-repp/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/corrina-repp/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CorrinaReppmusic
Press: Robert Vickers,
Agent: European booking, please contact: Jose Luis Cuevas,
Λ− Corrina Repp is a singer/multi–instrumentalist based in Portland, Oregon. In the early 2000s she recorded three albums before drawing the attention of Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon), who decided to release her fourth album — “The Absent and the Distant” — on his label (Repp was the first artist apart from Kozelek’s projects to appear on Caldo Verde).
Λ− In 2007 Corrina and fellow musician Joe Haege (31knots, Vin Blanc / White Wine) formed Tu Fawning. Over the following five years, they recorded an EP and two albums (both released on City Slang) and toured extensively throughout the US and Europe, to great public and critical acclaim. Then in autumn 2012, Tu Fawning played their last show in London. The band had run its course, and all four members felt it was time to live something different.
Λ− Repp moved into a tiny apartment in Portland and put all of her equipment into a closet, where it remained for a whole year. Then in January 2014, she started playing and writing again; writing in–between working at a restaurant and a plant nursery, writing while house–sitting a mansion for 6 weeks, writing at a friend’s cabin in the woods, writing in her room at 2 in the morning. Writing because she simply had to.
It’s the culmination of these (joyous and sad) moments and (magnificent and mundane) places that brings us “The Pattern of Electricity”, Corrina Repp’s first solo album in almost ten years.
Λ− Recorded in November and December 2014 by long–time friend Peter Broderick at his studio on the Oregon coast, and mixed by Benjamin Weikel of Helio Sequence, these nine perfect gems of songs will be released on May 19th on CD and limited edition LP.
© Photo by Dave Depper
REVIEW
Corrina Repp: The Road Back to Music — From OMN the Magazine
by Robert Ham on April 20, 2015
Λ− By her own account, Corrina Repp “lost everything that was my life” at the end of 2012.
Λ− Tu Fawning, the acclaimed gothic folk group that she co–founded, dissolved after one final tour in support of its second album A Monument. Soon thereafter, Repp’s romantic relationship with her bandmate Joe Haege also came to end after eight years.
Λ− Both blows flattened her so much that for nearly 14 months afterward, she stopped playing music altogether.
Λ− “I put it all in a closet,” Repp said, nursing an early afternoon beer at a bottle shop off Mississippi Avenue. “I didn’t play. I didn’t sing. The idea of playing music was like ripping off a Band–Aid. It would only just remind me of everything I just lost. It would have been too much.”
Λ− To understand what a big deal that actually was, keep in mind that the 41–year–old has been making music for almost the entirety of her two decades living in Portland. In the late ‘90s, Repp balanced recording plaintive, delicate acoustic folk for Hush Records with a stint in a psychedelically inclined pop group called The State Flowers.
Λ− As her career moved forward into the next millennium, her music started to expand out, enveloping influences like early jazz, country, and the dark visions of Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. And as her reputation grew, she started getting invites to collaborate with like minded artists such as Nick Jaina and Chad Crouch. For a time, she was even a member of Viva Voce, fleshing out that indie rock duo’s already monstrous live sound.
Λ− In 2007, Repp started Tu Fawning with Haege. The band found her making some major shifts in her musical outlook. She switched from guitar to drums, and started writing from a fictional perspective. Even in the band’s promotional photos and videos, Repp put on the airs of a slightly fractured silent movie star, sashaying through the dark corners and tightropes of the world.
Λ− After so many years of forward motion and creative momentum, for it to all come to a screeching halt left her shaken and, as she puts it, “moving through the world like half a person.” But, she continues, “I had to at least allow the dust to settle and get some perspective to be able to write again.”
Λ− When the muse finally struck (aided in part by a request from a friend to write and sing a song as part of a dance performance), the music started flowing quickly. Λ− And what poured out of Repp were the nine songs that make up her latest album The Pattern of Electricity (out early next month on Mark Kozelek’s Caldo Verde Records). This new collection marks the emotional journey of the past two years, a movement from sorrow, frustration, and anger to empowerment, all mapped through a dense thicket of modern folk pop burnished just so with electronic beats and textures.
Λ− The album doesn’t pull many punches. With chillingly direct and poetic language, Repp examines the pieces of her fractured relationship, including her own role in its demise (“I believed in what you were…i won’t make you like me/you know what’s in my heart,” she sings on the spooky “Woods”), while also taking stock of a doomed romance she tried to enter into after her breakup with Haege (from “Pattern the Cut/Calm Ass Mofo”: “It came from the sea/I explained it to you…and now I know that we never can/’cause now I know I want more”).
“I listen to it now and it feels cathartic,” Repp says. “But maybe there’s this fearlessness and being okay with really laying it out there, really saying what you are writing about. I cried when writing almost all of these songs. It’s the best form of therapy anyone could ever have.”
Λ− She certainly seems unburdened now. Though she still harbors some regrets about dragging a poor soul through the flotsam of her previous relationship well before she was ready, the weight of that fraught period looks to have been lifted thanks to exorcising these demons in song and having a relaxed and joyful time recording them with longtime friend Peter Broderick at his studio near Pacific City.
Λ− “It’s really interesting to have so much fun making a record that was really, really personal and had a lot of heartache in it,” she says.
She’s also clear minded enough now to accept that maybe the emotional hardships were necessary to urge her along in her still young musical career.
Λ− “I feel that had I not gone through what I had gone through, I would not be writing about the same things. I had to make some difficult choices and be really brave in order to make this record. I had to make them though because otherwise, what do I have to say?” Λ− http://oregonmusicnews.com/
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| Corrina Repp — The Pattern of Electricity |
Album release: 19 May, 2015
Record Label: Caldo Verde Records
Duration: 40:08
Tracks:
1. The Beast Lives in the Same Place 4:13
2. Pattern the Cut/calm Ass Mofo 7:19
3. Live for the Dead 3:07
4. Woods 4:43
5. Another Shape 4:15
6. The Pattern of Electricity 6:05
7. Set Fire 3:26
8. Long Shadow (with Pb) 4:10
9. In the Dark, You're More Colorful 2:50
Members:
Λ− Evan Railton
Λ− Jason Leonard
Λ− All songs recorded by Peter Broderick in November and December of 2014 at The Sparkle in Woods, Oregon
Λ− Except Release Me and Another Shape recorded at Space Barn with Graeme Gibson and also with Evan Railton at Human Resources in Portland, Oregon
Λ− All songs written, played and sung by Corrina Repp
Λ− Peter Broderick sang, played strings, drums, keys, and countless other things and parts
Λ− Evan Railton played drums and keys on Release Me and Another Shape
Λ− Graeme Gibson played drums, piano and keys on Release Me, and Another Shape
Λ− Brandon Summers played guitar on Set Fire
Λ− Mixed by The Helio Sequence
Λ− Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering
Λ− Design by Ashod Simonian
Bandcamp: https://corrinarepp.bandcamp.com/album/the-pattern-of-electricity
Discolexique: http://discolexique.com/artiste/corrina-repp/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/corrina-repp/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CorrinaReppmusic
Press: Robert Vickers,
Agent: European booking, please contact: Jose Luis Cuevas,
Λ− Corrina Repp is a singer/multi–instrumentalist based in Portland, Oregon. In the early 2000s she recorded three albums before drawing the attention of Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon), who decided to release her fourth album — “The Absent and the Distant” — on his label (Repp was the first artist apart from Kozelek’s projects to appear on Caldo Verde).
Λ− In 2007 Corrina and fellow musician Joe Haege (31knots, Vin Blanc / White Wine) formed Tu Fawning. Over the following five years, they recorded an EP and two albums (both released on City Slang) and toured extensively throughout the US and Europe, to great public and critical acclaim. Then in autumn 2012, Tu Fawning played their last show in London. The band had run its course, and all four members felt it was time to live something different.
Λ− Repp moved into a tiny apartment in Portland and put all of her equipment into a closet, where it remained for a whole year. Then in January 2014, she started playing and writing again; writing in–between working at a restaurant and a plant nursery, writing while house–sitting a mansion for 6 weeks, writing at a friend’s cabin in the woods, writing in her room at 2 in the morning. Writing because she simply had to.
It’s the culmination of these (joyous and sad) moments and (magnificent and mundane) places that brings us “The Pattern of Electricity”, Corrina Repp’s first solo album in almost ten years.
Λ− Recorded in November and December 2014 by long–time friend Peter Broderick at his studio on the Oregon coast, and mixed by Benjamin Weikel of Helio Sequence, these nine perfect gems of songs will be released on May 19th on CD and limited edition LP.
REVIEW
Corrina Repp: The Road Back to Music — From OMN the Magazine
by Robert Ham on April 20, 2015
Λ− By her own account, Corrina Repp “lost everything that was my life” at the end of 2012.
Λ− Tu Fawning, the acclaimed gothic folk group that she co–founded, dissolved after one final tour in support of its second album A Monument. Soon thereafter, Repp’s romantic relationship with her bandmate Joe Haege also came to end after eight years.
Λ− Both blows flattened her so much that for nearly 14 months afterward, she stopped playing music altogether.
Λ− “I put it all in a closet,” Repp said, nursing an early afternoon beer at a bottle shop off Mississippi Avenue. “I didn’t play. I didn’t sing. The idea of playing music was like ripping off a Band–Aid. It would only just remind me of everything I just lost. It would have been too much.”
Λ− To understand what a big deal that actually was, keep in mind that the 41–year–old has been making music for almost the entirety of her two decades living in Portland. In the late ‘90s, Repp balanced recording plaintive, delicate acoustic folk for Hush Records with a stint in a psychedelically inclined pop group called The State Flowers.
Λ− As her career moved forward into the next millennium, her music started to expand out, enveloping influences like early jazz, country, and the dark visions of Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. And as her reputation grew, she started getting invites to collaborate with like minded artists such as Nick Jaina and Chad Crouch. For a time, she was even a member of Viva Voce, fleshing out that indie rock duo’s already monstrous live sound.
Λ− In 2007, Repp started Tu Fawning with Haege. The band found her making some major shifts in her musical outlook. She switched from guitar to drums, and started writing from a fictional perspective. Even in the band’s promotional photos and videos, Repp put on the airs of a slightly fractured silent movie star, sashaying through the dark corners and tightropes of the world.
Λ− After so many years of forward motion and creative momentum, for it to all come to a screeching halt left her shaken and, as she puts it, “moving through the world like half a person.” But, she continues, “I had to at least allow the dust to settle and get some perspective to be able to write again.”
Λ− When the muse finally struck (aided in part by a request from a friend to write and sing a song as part of a dance performance), the music started flowing quickly. Λ− And what poured out of Repp were the nine songs that make up her latest album The Pattern of Electricity (out early next month on Mark Kozelek’s Caldo Verde Records). This new collection marks the emotional journey of the past two years, a movement from sorrow, frustration, and anger to empowerment, all mapped through a dense thicket of modern folk pop burnished just so with electronic beats and textures.
Λ− The album doesn’t pull many punches. With chillingly direct and poetic language, Repp examines the pieces of her fractured relationship, including her own role in its demise (“I believed in what you were…i won’t make you like me/you know what’s in my heart,” she sings on the spooky “Woods”), while also taking stock of a doomed romance she tried to enter into after her breakup with Haege (from “Pattern the Cut/Calm Ass Mofo”: “It came from the sea/I explained it to you…and now I know that we never can/’cause now I know I want more”).
“I listen to it now and it feels cathartic,” Repp says. “But maybe there’s this fearlessness and being okay with really laying it out there, really saying what you are writing about. I cried when writing almost all of these songs. It’s the best form of therapy anyone could ever have.”
Λ− She certainly seems unburdened now. Though she still harbors some regrets about dragging a poor soul through the flotsam of her previous relationship well before she was ready, the weight of that fraught period looks to have been lifted thanks to exorcising these demons in song and having a relaxed and joyful time recording them with longtime friend Peter Broderick at his studio near Pacific City.
Λ− “It’s really interesting to have so much fun making a record that was really, really personal and had a lot of heartache in it,” she says.
She’s also clear minded enough now to accept that maybe the emotional hardships were necessary to urge her along in her still young musical career.
Λ− “I feel that had I not gone through what I had gone through, I would not be writing about the same things. I had to make some difficult choices and be really brave in order to make this record. I had to make them though because otherwise, what do I have to say?” Λ− http://oregonmusicnews.com/
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