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Rachele Eve w/ Ben Salazar
Chicago based songwriter Rachele Eve has
come into her own with the wonderful new CD, Mouth of Feathers.
Attracted to Chicago's diverse music
scene she set out for the windy city on the search for a much more
intimate yet driving sound. It was not even a month until she
met her partner, Nikolai Giefer, a drummer and producer that
relocated to Chicago after Hurricane Katrina. The two released
Winchester Sessions, a collection of six new compositions, later to
be revised under the name Joys and Toys. Unlike other duos, the
balance of Rachele Eve's organic lyrical and vocal expression and
Nikolai's adept syncopation made for a symbiotic relationship, both
innate and unprecedented.
In October of 2007, Giefer introduced Eve to his former professor
and record producer John Snyder, a veteran in jazz recording (Miles
Davis, Etta James) and founder of Artists House Music Foundation. A
couple months after Snyder's visit to Chicago, he invited Eve down
to Louisiana to record. After months of seeking out local musicians
and fundraising for the album, Rachele Eve, Nikolai Giefer, and
multi-instrumentalist Packy Lundholm ventured down to Dockside
Studios in Maurice, Louisiana in July 2008. The three of them
cranked out an astonishing fourteen songs in four days, making up
Rachele Eve's first full-length album.
Entitled Mouth of Feathers, the distinct and unabridged
instrumentation incorporates a modern yet vintage feel, colored with
distorted guitars, toy piano, an accordion cameo, Wurlitzer, and
Hammond B-3 organ. All behind her seamless whisper-to-wail vocal
inflections the album is brave in parts and meek in others bringing
about the entire spectrum of human emotion. The lyrical component of
Mouth of Feathers illustrates more abstractly Eve's personal journey
through being her own worst critic, finding a new love, and trying
to make sense of society's strange antics. Rachele Eve's influences
that are especially prominent on Mouth of Feathers include: Fiona
Apple, Feist, Jon Brion, Regina Spektor, and Bob Dylan.
Detroit's own Ben Salazar will open the show. His most recent
appearance at Trinity House was an opening spot for Keri Noble in
November of 2009.
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"Rachele’s
voice shares a bit of similarity at points with Regina Spektor
and maybe even some Lisa Hannigan; the title of the song made me
think of Cursive ('Harold Weathervein'); the lyrics made me
think of Andrew Bird’s 'Tables and Chairs,' what with the
apocalypse party and all. But, in the end, all these comparisons
are unnecessary. There’s just something
about these songs. It’s
something I can’t put a finger on, but then again, maybe I don’t
need to. This is exciting, fresh music." - Knox Road |
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