RISE
Release
'Strangers'
an astonishing new album!
The Album follows on from the wonderful collaboration between Peter Yates and Jo Beth Young on the 'Splinters' EP. Peter Yates best remembered for his tenure as guitarist for goth/rock act 'Fields of the Nephilim of course'.
This is an incredible album by RISE it has to be said. Paulie talked to Jo Beth Young In Phacemag
earlier in the year. Click my Click below to read that insightful interview.
From then on we've just followed the creative trail until now.
This album is truly unique we like this!
earlier in the year. Click my Click below to read that insightful interview.
From then on we've just followed the creative trail until now.
This album is truly unique we like this!
About
The Album follows on from the wonderful collaboration between Peter Yates and Jo Beth Young on the 'Splinters' EP. Peter Yates best remembered for his tenure as guitarist for goth/rock act Fields of the Nephilim of course.
Jo Beth Young released her first RISE album (as Talitha Rise) in 2018 titled An Abandoned Orchid House.
Yates and Young’s Splinters EP follows up on 2017’s No Country For Old Men by Yates and Delany, on which Young performed as a guest; similarly, Yates appears on several tracks on Strangers. Clear so far? Good..this way...
Jo Beth Young released her first RISE album (as Talitha Rise) in 2018 titled An Abandoned Orchid House.
Yates and Young’s Splinters EP follows up on 2017’s No Country For Old Men by Yates and Delany, on which Young performed as a guest; similarly, Yates appears on several tracks on Strangers. Clear so far? Good..this way...
Splinters EP
Incidentally Peter Yates and Jo Beth Young released the first single off 'Splinters' “Where Are We Now,” to critical acclaim. Blending Yates’ signature guitars and atmospheric progressions with Young’s ethereal vocals It was inspired. The video was just as inspired, utilizing footage of Jo Beth Young’s great grandfather – vaudeville artist Dandy George – performing onstage with his dog Rosie in 1927.
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Meet - 'Strangers'
RISE
(aka Jo Beth Young's)
musical journey weaves together intimate and cinematic stories
marrying reverberations from the past with the struggles of the present day.
Improvised pianos echo within a Medieval farmhouse whilst ethereal vocals meander across the craggy stone landscape of rural Ireland - their atmosphere highlighted by prog-goth guitars, sweeping strings and rousing percussion.
Strangers is the new album by the Sussex-born (UK) singer/songwriter RISE (previously Talitha Rise) and the follow up to her internationally acclaimed debut ‘An Abandoned Orchid House’. RISE's (aka Jo Beth Young) new musical journey weaves together intimate and cinematic stories marrying reverberations from the past with the struggles of the present day.
Exploring themes of love, loss, rebirth and transformation.
“David Gray once wrote a line that has stuck with me - “and when we meet again, we will be strangers”. That, in a nutshell, is the idea behind this album. This album traverses the challenge of the personal ‘abyss’ and the emergence from the bleakness of loss and separation. This gives way to hope, wisdom and the taking of responsibility.
Each location adds another layer of meaning and context to the stories within each song. I wanted these songs to be a conversation with the land, the place, the history that I was in at the time but it is intertwined with some of my own intense personal experiences.” : RISE
Some of the more noticeably improvised pieces are like characters that RISE channels through the stories the lyrics bring to life. For example, 'The Old Sewing Woman' tells the story of a life lived unfulfilled whilst 'Strangers' speaks of a husband returning from war so changed that he is now unrecognisable. The inevitability and bitter-sweetness of change is apparent throughout.
“It's unbleached of humanness, with the sounds of life discernible in the background. A cello bows hit the mic, piano pedals and stools creak, a dog barks. For me, this reflects the intimacy and 'realness' of each song.” : RISE
Although her debut was somewhat nomadic in recording, the production did include many hours in the studio with Martyn Barker (Robert Plant, Marianne Faithful, Goldfrapp). The follow-up however, has not been near a studio at all. In her first fully self-produced album, RISE worked distantly with her live band and guests such as Peter Yates (from the legendary The Fields of The Nephilim) and then transformed each track into something deeply textured from the seclusion of the west coast of Ireland.
This will also be the first record RISE releases the via her own label, Wise Queen Records. Pre-orders are currently up on her Indiegogo campaign and include coloured vinyl, lyric books and some quirky Strangers themed experiences and perks.
"Make no mistake this is probably the first time ever the following could describe an album's (STRANGERS) production!" pp:
"Improvised pianos echo within a Medieval farmhouse whilst ethereal vocals meander across the craggy stone landscape of rural Ireland - their atmosphere highlighted by prog-goth guitars, sweeping strings and rousing percussion."
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