| Emily Jane White — Blood/Lines (2013) |
Emily Jane White — Blood/Lines
≈ She layered synthetizer, electric guitar and multiple tracks of vocals into nine heavily reverbed scenes. With the help of friends and collaborators, Emily’s worlds were diversified with strings, backing vocals, and heavy drums. “Blood / Lines” displays loyalty to dark and somber atmospheres through bright sounds, rhythmic drive and pop sensibility. Love, anger and violence move through each vignette. Kinship generates complex intimacies. Love can entrap the unwary and betray the devoted.
Location: Oakland, California
Album release: October 14th, 2013
Record Label: Talitres (UK) / Important Records (US)
Duration: 43:49
Tracks:
01. My Beloved (5:07)
02. Faster Than The Devil (4:32)
03. Keeley (5:48)
04. Thoroughbred (3:37)
05. 5Wake (6:02)
06. Dandelion Daze (3:23)
07. Holiday Song (4:38)
08. The Roses (4:57)
09. The Wolves (5:45)
Photo by Sara Sanger
≈ After releasing three albums in three years (‘Dark Undercoat’, 2008; ‘Victorian America’, 2009; ‘Ode To Sentience‘, 2010), Emily Jane White wrote over 100 sketches between January 2011 and October 2012.
≈ Her new album “Blood / Lines” is a selected compilation of these songs. Recorded in a secluded studio in Sonoma County, California, the quiet environment provided Emily a place to explore new directions and avenues with artistic integrity and creative control. She layered synthesizer, electric guitar and multiple tracks of vocals into nine heavily reverbed scenes. With the help of friends and collaborators, Emily’s worlds were diversified with strings, backing vocals, and heavy drums. Blood/Lines displays loyalty to dark and somber atmospheres through bright sounds, rhythmic drive, and pop sensibility. Love, anger, and violence move through each vignette. Kinship generates complex intimacies. Love can entrap the unwary and betray the devoted.
In french:
≈ "Prolifique puis discrète. Apres avoir sorti ses trois premiers albums en l’espace de trois ans (« Dark Undercoat » 2008 ; « Victorian America » 2009 ; « Ode To Sentience » 2010), apres avoir enchainé diverses tournées en France et a travers toute l’Europe, depuis le duo jusqu’au sextet, Emily Jane White a consacré ces deux dernieres années a la composition de son 4eme opus, une retraite salutaire et nécessaire, sur la côte ouest américaine aupres des siens.
≈ Si on retrouve sur « Blood / Lines » la marque de fabrique de l’amie américaine, ces ballades intimistes et envoutantes, cette mélancolie contagieuse baignée de son chant apaisant (avec en invitée sur deux titres Marissa Nadler), celui-ci ouvre cependant de nouvelles échappées : le choix de délaisser quelque peu le son boisé de la guitare acoustique pour privilégier l’orgue, le piano ou différents synthétiseurs aux services d’harmonies vocales." (label Talitres aupres duquel vous pouvez acheter les albums d'E.J. White)
≈ Issue de l'univers "alternative folk", E. J. White semble s'orienter vers l'alternative rock avec la meme grâce (et la superbe voix qui va avec) qu'elle présentait lors de ses 3 précédents albums. Evidemment recommandé.
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Bio:
≈ There’s a rare confidence to Emily Jane White’s songwriting: it’s at once generous and tough-minded, reflective and unsentimental. Her work shares some elements with folk music, but the term does not do justice to her ambitious songwriting and robust arrangements. White possesses a singular voice inspired by the raveled threads of the uncanny in American culture, including depression-era blues and classic works of gothic literature such as Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper.
≈ White’s third album Ode to Sentience is her most realized work to date. Drawing upon finger-picked folk, traditional country, classical music and rock, White creates an expansive space for her intuitive lyrics and elegiac vocals. The spare skeletons of the songs on Ode to Sentience are fleshed out with subdued electric guitar thrums, diaphanous organ, ethereal pedal steel guitar, lush strings, and White’s dusky alto with its signature catch. Her indelible sound has earned White a devoted European following, prompting her to regularly tour France, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands in recent years.
≈ Ode to Sentience unifies White’s recurring themes and her fascination with Gothic America into an assured statement. There’s an emotional potency to the songs, betraying her keen eye for the power dynamics of interpersonal conflict, melancholy, and confinement. In “I Lay to Rest (California)”, a meditation upon isolation, oppression, and the redemption of grace, White imbues the potentially morbid statement “You were a body, you were a ghost, now you are nothing, the dark it up and rose, and toward the light it took you, and melted your wings, you were a body and now you are nothing” with the optimistic recitation, “there must be a way out.” ≈ White doesn’t wallow in darkness and morbidity; instead she considers her work to be unifying, an empathetic reflection on the universality of adversity. She sings of individuals “dwelling within oppressive circumstances while seeking liberation despite their isolation and silent suffering.”
≈ This sensibility betrays White’s provenance. Raised in Fort Bragg, California, a seaside town nestled in the misty, secluded woodland of the Mendocino Coast, it could be said that optimistic melancholy and isolation don’t only suffuse White’s songwriting, but are in her bones. While attending the University of California, Santa Cruz, White researched gender studies and nurtured an acute social conscience. Her passion for social justice informs her songwriting, evidenced by her previous releases Dark Undercoat, which garnered raves from the likes of Spin and Rolling Stone, and Victorian America, which contended with the state of New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina. Ode to Sentience is equally engaged as White’s previous works, but delves deeper into the fundamental dynamics of injustice, achieving a sympathetic and universal investigation of the personal as political. By: Paul M. Davis (www.paulmdavis.com)
Website: http://www.emilyjanewhite.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/emilyjanewhite
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emilyjanewhiteofficial
Emily:
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| Emily Jane White — Blood/Lines (2013) |
Emily Jane White — Blood/Lines
≈ She layered synthetizer, electric guitar and multiple tracks of vocals into nine heavily reverbed scenes. With the help of friends and collaborators, Emily’s worlds were diversified with strings, backing vocals, and heavy drums. “Blood / Lines” displays loyalty to dark and somber atmospheres through bright sounds, rhythmic drive and pop sensibility. Love, anger and violence move through each vignette. Kinship generates complex intimacies. Love can entrap the unwary and betray the devoted.
Location: Oakland, California
Album release: October 14th, 2013
Record Label: Talitres (UK) / Important Records (US)
Duration: 43:49
Tracks:
01. My Beloved (5:07)
02. Faster Than The Devil (4:32)
03. Keeley (5:48)
04. Thoroughbred (3:37)
05. 5Wake (6:02)
06. Dandelion Daze (3:23)
07. Holiday Song (4:38)
08. The Roses (4:57)
09. The Wolves (5:45)
Photo by Sara Sanger
≈ After releasing three albums in three years (‘Dark Undercoat’, 2008; ‘Victorian America’, 2009; ‘Ode To Sentience‘, 2010), Emily Jane White wrote over 100 sketches between January 2011 and October 2012.
≈ Her new album “Blood / Lines” is a selected compilation of these songs. Recorded in a secluded studio in Sonoma County, California, the quiet environment provided Emily a place to explore new directions and avenues with artistic integrity and creative control. She layered synthesizer, electric guitar and multiple tracks of vocals into nine heavily reverbed scenes. With the help of friends and collaborators, Emily’s worlds were diversified with strings, backing vocals, and heavy drums. Blood/Lines displays loyalty to dark and somber atmospheres through bright sounds, rhythmic drive, and pop sensibility. Love, anger, and violence move through each vignette. Kinship generates complex intimacies. Love can entrap the unwary and betray the devoted.
In french:
≈ "Prolifique puis discrète. Apres avoir sorti ses trois premiers albums en l’espace de trois ans (« Dark Undercoat » 2008 ; « Victorian America » 2009 ; « Ode To Sentience » 2010), apres avoir enchainé diverses tournées en France et a travers toute l’Europe, depuis le duo jusqu’au sextet, Emily Jane White a consacré ces deux dernieres années a la composition de son 4eme opus, une retraite salutaire et nécessaire, sur la côte ouest américaine aupres des siens.
≈ Si on retrouve sur « Blood / Lines » la marque de fabrique de l’amie américaine, ces ballades intimistes et envoutantes, cette mélancolie contagieuse baignée de son chant apaisant (avec en invitée sur deux titres Marissa Nadler), celui-ci ouvre cependant de nouvelles échappées : le choix de délaisser quelque peu le son boisé de la guitare acoustique pour privilégier l’orgue, le piano ou différents synthétiseurs aux services d’harmonies vocales." (label Talitres aupres duquel vous pouvez acheter les albums d'E.J. White)
≈ Issue de l'univers "alternative folk", E. J. White semble s'orienter vers l'alternative rock avec la meme grâce (et la superbe voix qui va avec) qu'elle présentait lors de ses 3 précédents albums. Evidemment recommandé.
________________________________________________________________
Bio:
≈ There’s a rare confidence to Emily Jane White’s songwriting: it’s at once generous and tough-minded, reflective and unsentimental. Her work shares some elements with folk music, but the term does not do justice to her ambitious songwriting and robust arrangements. White possesses a singular voice inspired by the raveled threads of the uncanny in American culture, including depression-era blues and classic works of gothic literature such as Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper.
≈ White’s third album Ode to Sentience is her most realized work to date. Drawing upon finger-picked folk, traditional country, classical music and rock, White creates an expansive space for her intuitive lyrics and elegiac vocals. The spare skeletons of the songs on Ode to Sentience are fleshed out with subdued electric guitar thrums, diaphanous organ, ethereal pedal steel guitar, lush strings, and White’s dusky alto with its signature catch. Her indelible sound has earned White a devoted European following, prompting her to regularly tour France, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands in recent years.
≈ Ode to Sentience unifies White’s recurring themes and her fascination with Gothic America into an assured statement. There’s an emotional potency to the songs, betraying her keen eye for the power dynamics of interpersonal conflict, melancholy, and confinement. In “I Lay to Rest (California)”, a meditation upon isolation, oppression, and the redemption of grace, White imbues the potentially morbid statement “You were a body, you were a ghost, now you are nothing, the dark it up and rose, and toward the light it took you, and melted your wings, you were a body and now you are nothing” with the optimistic recitation, “there must be a way out.” ≈ White doesn’t wallow in darkness and morbidity; instead she considers her work to be unifying, an empathetic reflection on the universality of adversity. She sings of individuals “dwelling within oppressive circumstances while seeking liberation despite their isolation and silent suffering.”
≈ This sensibility betrays White’s provenance. Raised in Fort Bragg, California, a seaside town nestled in the misty, secluded woodland of the Mendocino Coast, it could be said that optimistic melancholy and isolation don’t only suffuse White’s songwriting, but are in her bones. While attending the University of California, Santa Cruz, White researched gender studies and nurtured an acute social conscience. Her passion for social justice informs her songwriting, evidenced by her previous releases Dark Undercoat, which garnered raves from the likes of Spin and Rolling Stone, and Victorian America, which contended with the state of New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina. Ode to Sentience is equally engaged as White’s previous works, but delves deeper into the fundamental dynamics of injustice, achieving a sympathetic and universal investigation of the personal as political. By: Paul M. Davis (www.paulmdavis.com)
Website: http://www.emilyjanewhite.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/emilyjanewhite
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emilyjanewhiteofficial
Emily:
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