Sam Burgess - bass...
Al Cherry - guitar...
Dave Price - percussion and fiddle...
Steve Holness - piano...
Etkilendikleri
Janis Ian, David Bowie, Nina Simone, Tom Cawley, Emily Dickinson, Rufus Wainwright, Velvet Underground, Paul Simon, Regina Spektor, Eugene O'Neill, Joni Mitchell, Toni Morrison, Stephen Fearing, Fran Landesman, Martin Read, James Taylor, Billie Holiday, Bill Withers, Bill Hicks, Ogden Nash, Tom Waits, Smashing Pumpkins, Laura Nyro, Bob Dylan, Neil Young...
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Words about current album "All the Ghosts", Naim Edge
**** 'This fine album....will be on the year-end hitlist whatever its genre' - The Guardian
**** 'All The Ghosts is the sound of a young lady who has more than found her feet' - The Beat Surrender
**** 'Shifting metres, contrasting backgrounds, and lyrics that actually mean something.' - Jazzwise
**** 'Beautifully observed vignettes about outsider women' - Daily Telegraph
**** 'If Hanns Eisler had been a woman and written with Ray Davies, he might have come up with something like this.' - Independent on Sunday
**** 'The beguiling storytelling voice beautifully enriches these nine tracks... Tricky to categorise but fantastically easy to warm to.' - Metro
**** 'All The Ghosts brims with imagination, compassion and vivid longing.' - City Life
**** 'A varied and fascinating album.' - Fly Global Music
'Herbert's powerful but affecting voice is imbued with sincerity, sympathy and intelligence; the songs' melodies are at once immediately arresting and accessible.' - Vortex Jazz
'[this] healthy dose of eccentricity makes for rewarding listening that's never twee' - Buzz Magazine
'The spirit of Ray Davies [and] Nina Simone.' - Dorset Echo
'A warm sultry talk on acoustic folk and pop' - Daily Mail
'Her singing - warm, soulful, and with a husky hint of Elkie Brooks - is classy throughout' - Mojo Magazine
'Delightfully diverse and unpredictable' ALBUM OF THE WEEK - Sunday Mercury
'Set to be a major sound this summer' - Stella - Daily Telegraph
'There's a lovely sense of Britishness about this girl, not only is she a talent vocally but a strong songstress too.' 8/10 - Blues & Soul
'She has a fine sense of melody and her latest songs tell stories that equal 'Terry meets Julie, Waterloo station, every Friday night' or 'Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins'.' - BBC Online
'The airy, acoustic arrangements are imaginative, full of shifting tempos and textures.' - The Times
'Letting her voice soar to emotional highs... with plenty of memorable hooks and whitty one-liners.' - Time Out
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Words about last album "Between Me and the Wardrobe", Blue Note:
***** 'With her bewitching voice, the jazz-folk star was never just your standard covers singer. And here is the proof' - Observer Music Monthly
"Superb music... Brilliantly original, full of space and isolated detail." - MOJO
"A Masterpiece" - Courtney Pine
"Her lyrics are consistently engaging... singing with a rare balance of passion and control... one of this year's word-of-mouth hits, with Herbert poised as one of Britain's brightest young talents." - The Telegraph
"Given the freedom to write the record that she wanted, Herbert has delivered a set of very personal songs on which she often sounds closer to Sandy Denny than, say, Sarah Vaughan. Each has a singular mood and texture, from the bittersweet balladry of Midnight Oil to the euphoria of The Morning After… her exquisite voice has found a happier home." -
The Times
"The songs are compacted narrative jewels... The music is oak-like, rich and weathered... full of unexpected and highly rewarding details. Recommended." - BBC Jazz Review
"Gwyneth Herbert is... blessed with a timeless voice full of vulnerability, playfulness and pathos. Rounded out only by a gut-string guitar and a double bass, her music is the stuff of dreams — at twists light, funny, intimate, heartwringing and truly emotive. Recently signed to Blue Note, Herbert breathes with talent as both a vocalist and a composer, something that is more than evident in her ethereal mixture of folk, jazz and the familiar cadences of 20th-century musical tradition" - Flavorpill
"Their (the songs') affecting power is so pronounced as to entirely vindicate her commendable insistence on making her own voice heard rather than as she was reportedly asked to do by Universal recording an album of big-band covers. For Herbert's own voice is, in the literal sense, a wonderfully flexible instrument, capable both of whispered intimacy and pleasantly strident power; in the figurative sense it is expressive of a rich complex of emotions..." - The Vortex Review
"Gwyneth Herbert has one of the most beautiful voices I’ve heard in a very long time, at once fragile and powerful and always dripping with emotion." 10/10 - DSD
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Here are Al and I recording a version of "Lay You Down" for a Blue Note podcast last week...
"A voice that's a knowing mix of honey, steel and gravel... Her voice vibrating over the lyrics in a way that makes your toes curl" - The Observer
"The jazz folk-diva with an awesome voice. Expect beguiling, powerful and often witty songs that strike an emotional chord!" - Time Out, London
"A remarkably gifted talent" - The Guardian
"Intelligent and technically awesome singer" - The Guardian
"A gifted singer and a true audience communicator" - The Independent
"If Gwyneth Herbert is not a star before long, I'll eat my CD player" - The Sunday Times
"Herbert is a hugely assured, sensual vocalist who can live a lyric" - The Times
Gwyneth Herbert releases her new album, 'All The Ghosts', through Naim Edge on July 13th.
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***ALL THE GHOSTS ARE NEARLY HERE!***
Help your ears to some songs from the new album here... You can now pre-order your copy of 'All the Ghosts' from Play.com or Amazon.... You can also download the album in mp3 format, CD quality, or HI definition from the website of my label, Naim Edge.
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Brand new, hot-off-the-press 'All the Ghosts' CDs will be on sale in shops, and signed copies available from my website, from THIS MONDAY, 13th July. You can also get them from me in person at gigs. Come say hi. I won't bite.*
*The allegations were never proven.
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The beautiful album package was designed by our new friend Keemo. Please go and check his work out... There are breathtaking, charming, individual pieces for affordable prices.* He is a brilliant talent and generally lovely fellow.
*But please leave some for us.
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The album was mixed and mastered by our good mate and sound wizard Robert Harder. We also recorded 'Annie's Yellow Bag' and a little surprise (shhh... don't tell anyone) one spring afternoon in his lovely studio in Hornsey. Robert worked alongside Seb on the Wardrobe album, and he sure knows how to make things sound good.
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Song notes and photos from the making of the album coming soon...
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And now some words about me from the lovely Andrew Perry. We like him:
Actresses have always grumbled that Hollywood doesn’t serve up enough female roles worth getting stuck into. They should try being a singer – they would find their options even more limited.
In a sense, there has probably never been a better time to be a girl singer – the charts are full of ’em – but these are within strictly defined market niches: the mid-’00s were all about the ‘retro chanteuses’; this year’s thing is ‘chicks with synthesizers’. Simply being yourself, it seems, isn’t good enough. In this fiercely strategized atmosphere, the sound of an honest, uncontaminated voice is worth more than gold.
Gwyneth Herbert is just such a priceless talent. At 27, she has already plunged into the world of record deals and promotional schemes a couple of times, and yet she resurfaces again only more pure, more committed in her belief in music’s power to communicate emotion and experience to a listener.
Gwyneth first broke onto the scene five years ago, when she was signed up by the Universal conglomerate as a jazz crossover artist. Finding that role too stifling, she soon struck out on her own, as a singer-songwriter, inspired as much by Janis Ian and Joni Mitchell, as by Billie Holiday or Nina Simone. In 2007 her Seb Rochford (Acoustic Ladyland/Polar Bear) produced album was picked up by Blue Note.
Her latest collection, ‘All The Ghosts’, continues further along her own idiosyncratic path. It carries ten terrific songs, which speak to you directly, without forethought for genre or category. In their melodic immediacy and observational characterization, you might hear the Lennon-McCartney of ‘Sgt Pepper’, or the Ray Davies of ‘Lola’, rather than any jazz stereotype.
The songs are populated by a living, breathing cast of beaten-down dreamers, jaded city-dwellers, and women in a quandary. There is a beautiful prostitute with a split lip, pining to be free to return to mother Russia. There is also a wicked, myth-enshrouded temptress, luring in young men with drink and drugs. And there is a Mini, the same age as the singer, as human and ‘real’ in its wheezing everyday tasks as any of the other folk. These, simply, are songs about people, about life, as the singer has precociously learnt to understand them at her tender age.
In the run-up to the release of ‘All The Ghosts’, Gwyneth has been performing across the UK, as well as incubating some intriguing side projects. She recently worked with the London Sinfonietta on a project called ‘The Art Of News’, alongside Simon Munnery, John Hegley and Nathan Penlington. She has also been commissioned to write a musical about Phyllis Pearson, the eccentric British artist who walked every street of London and invented the A-Z map.
Recorded at Real World Studios and mixed and mastered by Robert Harder. All The Ghosts features: pianist Steve Holness double bassist Sam Burgess, percussionist Dave Price and guitarist Al Cherry.
Live: Thursday 25th June, Café Oto, Dalston, LONDON
For more information contact Jim at Ampersand PR -
020 7738 6402 jim@ampersandpr.com
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'Losing Me' is a beautiful song!! It was great supporting you at The Boardwalk in Sheffield last year! We've uploaded some new tracks you might want to check out if you have the time ...
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