Gretchen Lieberum - When This Kiss Is Over It Will Start Again

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:12
Size: 100,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:21) 1. Dark Days
(4:38) 2. Like Winter
(4:37) 3. Heaven
(2:23) 4. Permanently Lonely
(3:57) 5. In The End
(2:09) 6. One Sweet Day
(3:13) 7. Lover You Should Be Here
(4:47) 8. Walking In the Sun
(2:51) 9. Cut And Run
(4:05) 10. Real Love
(2:36) 11. The Tree Song
(4:28) 12. Floodgates

Gretchen Lieberum is a Los Angeles-based vocalist and songwriter.Raised in Berkeley, California and educated at UC Santa Cruz, she developed a passion for music within the Bay Area scene.After fronting a funk band for several years, Lieberum released her first solo album, Three a.m. (1999) followed by a record named Brand New Morning (2002), both produced by Greg Porée. Her latest albums, Siren Songs (2005) and When This Kiss Is Over It Will Start Again (2009), were independently released in the United States.She and college friend Maya Rudolph are in a Prince cover band together called Princess. Princess performed "Darling Nikki" on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in September 2012 with the band The Roots. In April 2016 they performed "Sometimes It Snows in April " with D'Angelo on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon".Her song "You Closer" was featured as a sample track on the Sansa e200 series portable mp3 playersGretchen Lieberum's latest project is Sargent, cabaret-pop abundant in levitating lullabies and heart-ached ballads born of vintage instruments. The self-titled LP, out September 16, has been a long time (six years) in gestation with the help of collaborator Jake Blanton (The Killers, Beck) but was only recently completed and released. Sargent recently joined forces with director Kirk Woodward Nelson to make a powerful video for the single Miracles and Light. http://www.stereogum.com/1899515/sargent-miracles-light-video/video/"...loss and flux is elegantly woven into the record cinematic, often piano driven songs delivered with rare hairsbreadth intimacy. A slight hand with the sparsity." (VICE/Noisey) https://peoplepill.com/people/gretchen-lieberum

When This Kiss Is Over It Will Start Again

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Gretchen Lieberum - This May Only Be a Dream

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:08
Size: 95,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:26) 1. Come Rain or Come Shine
(4:17) 2. Don't Explain
(3:27) 3. Lonely Sea
(5:49) 4. Who Knows Where the Time Goes
(4:41) 5. Blue Skies
(3:25) 6. Wild Is the Wind
(3:31) 7. Angel Eyes
(4:26) 8. For All We Know
(2:56) 9. My Darling, My Darling
(3:07) 10. While We're Young

Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Gretchen Lieberum had a vision for her latest album, This May Only Be A Dream, over ten years ago, when she first met and worked with BAFTA award winning producer and musician Keefus Ciancia. Gretchen, who also fronts the Prince tribute band Princess with actress Maya Rudolph, wanted to create an album of jazz and pop standards, songs she’d loved and performed since childhood, but deconstructed and reimagined in a modern context, with Keefus in particular producing and arranging: “There was really no one else I wanted to do this project with besides Keefus. His impeccable taste and astounding creativity were exactly what I wanted for this album.” Keefus’s schedule has been quite busy over the last several years, creating the score for seasons one and three of True Detective with T-Bone Burnett, as well as scoring Killing Eve with David Holmes, for which they won a BAFTA for best original score. Gretchen in the meantime was playing sold-out shows across the country with Maya Rudolph as Princess, including a slot at the 2019 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. But Gretchen and Keefus managed to work on the project in bits and pieces when they could, finally completing the album in early 2021.

To create the album, Gretchen recorded vocal takes of over twenty of her favorite standards, accompanied only by piano, before sending them to Keefus, who is based in France: “I chose songs that speak to me lyrically, and have melodies that I’ve always loved and been haunted by. When recording them, I kept the accompanying instrumentation very minimal, in order to allow Keefus to have room to let his creativity and imagination run wild.” While recording, Gretchen found inspiration from the music of her idols, such as Nina Simone, Peggy Lee, and Nancy Sinatra. Of the songs Gretchen sent, Keefus chose his favorites, removed the piano and began to reimagine them, taking a rule-breaking approach to harmony, arrangement and genre around Gretchen’s a cappella vocals: “Sometimes Keefus would send a track back to me and I’d be absolutely blown away by what he’d crafted around the vocal; a stark ballad would come back accompanied by a dense, swooping orchestra, tempos might be slowed down or sped up, all in the same song. Then I’d continue to build on what he’d worked on, like adding layers to a painting.” The finished tracks, inspired by Gretchen’s emotional and intimate delivery, are at once lush, dynamic, visual, and cinematic.

To complete the album, the two met in Los Angeles at the historic Electro Vox Studios, bringing in a variety of seasoned and like-minded session musicians such as Jay Bellerose, David Ralicke, Gabe Noel, Woody Jackson, Peter Smith, string player Gabe Witcher, and Wendy Melvoin of Prince’s The Revolution on background vocals. “It was amazing to be able to flesh out our songs with these incredibly talented musicians, while working in such a beautiful and historic space. And best of all, Keefus and I were finally able to work together in person after two years of collaborating from different continents. It was a really special experience.”

The lyrical stories within these classic songs are both hallowed and revered, written by some of the world’s greatest songwriters, from Johnny Mercer to Billie Holiday to Brian Wilson. In recording This May Only Be A Dream, Gretchen and Keefus endeavored to honor these past greats, but also to reinvent them without any strict adherence to previous arrangements or “standard” rules. The result is an album that is at once timely and timeless, appealing to longtime listeners while simultaneously opening a door for a whole new generation to discover great music anew. http://www.gretchenlieberum.com/

This May Only Be a Dream

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