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Released: Jan 1, 2009

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Genre: Alternative / Folk / Indie
Location Manchester, Northwest, United Kingdom
Profile Views: 871584
Last Login: 2/8/2012
Member Since 7/7/2005
Website www.jescahoop.com
Type of Label Indie
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5 years ago i decided to start playing my own songs for audiences as a "solo artist" . Although i am technically a soloist, i do come draped in musical friends, collaborators, mentors and champions all of which are part of the recipe that results in the music you here on this page. I have been very fortunate to forge bonds with many wonderful and talented people since i set foot on this path. Some of those poeple include Tony Berg who produces with me my records. Shawn everett who engineers them. Blake Mills who is one of the most talented SOB's i know. Patrick Warren who not only is a wonderous musician but also went to med school. Quinn who is one of my favourite drummers in LA. Nicole Eva Emery who not only is a dazzling vocalist..but is a smart and sexy bitch as well (except for the fact that she's going to be a nurse istead of a fulltime rocker ;-). Zberg daughter of Tony Berg who is an absolute one of a kind..also smart sexy bitch....Look out here she comes !! Kaveh Rastagar bassist and darling extraornidare. Stuart Johnson uber talented drummer and darling double. Joe Karnes wonderful Bassist and best kind of company especially when were rapping in the car after a show on the late night drive up the 405. The Ditty Bops who undoubtably the most creative witches i know. I miss our walks !! Sasha smith keys whiz and friend from way back home. Here in the UK i am just starting out but have been fortunate enough to find Jimmy Wallace who is a delight and a wonderon the guitar. Zoe Choitis who is a greek goddess and a sultry sexy singer. These people are some, and ofcourse not all, the greatest gifts in my life. To music !! To life !!
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early early folk songs, pop radio, chamber music,gospel music,20's to 40's jazz, ol' counrty, ol' blues, slave songs,dance Hall, murder ballads, rock and roll, blue grass, my back yard, Cat Stevens, Kate Bush, Edith Piaff,Blackbird Stitches, Crosby Stills n Nash, Bjork, Out Cast,The Faun Fables, Beck, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, The Roots, Tom Waits, Leanord Cohen, Pj Harvey, The Police, my best friends, my phone bill, what i ate for breakfast, what i didnt eat for breakfast. Say no to fast food and junk food music. Any music that is good...and may the lord help you if you can't tell the difference. ...... ......
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Hunting My Dress

Jesca Hoop calls her stunning sophomore album “the first time I’ve ever really invested in myself.” And she means that literally: After recording the nine-track disc in Los Angeles with veteran producer Tony Berg (Michael Penn, Aimee Mann, Nickel Creek), the northern California native packed her bags and decamped for England, where last year she released Hunting My Dress independently to an avalanche of acclaim from both the U.K. press and fellow artists such as Guy Garvey of Elbow. “That was the first time I really took control of my own life,” Hoop says, “and had enough faith to put not just my talent but my money toward running a campaign.”

Fans of Hoop’s 2007 debut, Kismet, already knew about the singer’s talent. A favorite of former KCRW tastemaker Nic Harcourt (who regularly featured Hoop on the public-radio station’s influential “Morning Becomes Eclectic”), Kismet announced the arrival of a unique new voice, one with a flair (as the Los Angeles Times put it) for “darkly seductive, genre-bending songs that dabble in everything from folk and pop to dub and cabaret.” Three years later, Hoop calls Hunting My Dress “a more clarified distillation of what I do as an artist. I’m closer to home in my expression on this record,” she continues. “I used less to express more.”

Expression is key for Hoop, whose adventurous songwriting and idiosyncratic vocals have earned favorable comparisons to such cutting-edge forbears as Björk, Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell. “Those women inspired a generation, and I’m of that generation,” Hoop acknowledges. “I’m trying to get to what’s innately mine. My heroes set this example for me. My only aim is to be just like myself.”

With a back-story as varied and colorful as Hoop’s, she certainly faces no shortage of material to draw from in that quest. Indeed, Hunting My Dress presents a series of indelible tales from a life less ordinary.

“Whispering Light,” the album’s haunting opener, serves as Hoop’s response to her mother’s decision to forgo chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer. “She decided on alternative therapies,” says Hoop, “and the song is my show of support.”

Another cut, the dark, beat-laced “Tulip,” is Hoop’s version of a murder ballad, the age-old musical tradition that’s long intrigued the singer. “I grew up on murder ballads, so I decided to write one, and what got me started was learning that the tulip actually became a form of currency in Holland in the 1600s. I imagined a man becoming enthralled by a particular woman and bartering for her hand by giving her father an incredibly valuable batch of tulips. But she’s not in love with him, and—well, the story goes from there.”

Elsewhere, “Feast of the Heart” has “a little alt-rock punk edge to it,” “Murder of Birds” features a lovely backing-vocal turn by Garvey and “Four Dreams” is “kind of like a hoedown”—all of which contributes to a record that Hoop says reflects something of a “schizophrenic nature,” with “a shape shifting role-play thing going on song to song.”

“Contrast and contradiction” are what captivate this young observer, and that’s further illustrated by the way Hoop mingles time periods, making the old-fashioned feel newfangled. “I don’t live in 1810, but sometimes the music that comes through me seems to come from that time,” she says. “The question becomes: How do I incorporate those sounds when I’m singing in 2010? How do I combine those eras in order to communicate with my audience?”

To be perfectly honest, we don’t know how she does it. But somehow she does, and Hunting My Dress is the unforgettable result.

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Bio:

5 years ago i decided to start playing my own songs for audiences as a "solo artist" . Although i am technically a soloist, i do come draped in musical friends, collaborators, mentors and champions all of which are part of the recipe that results in the music you here on this page. I have been very fortunate to forge bonds with many wonderful and talented people since i set foot on this path. Some of those poeple include Tony Berg who produces with me my records. Shawn everett who engineers them. Blake Mills who is one of the most talented SOB's i know. Patrick Warren who not only is a wonderous musician but also went to med school. Quinn who is one of my favourite drummers in LA. Nicole Eva Emery who not only is a dazzling vocalist..but is a smart and sexy bitch as well (except for the fact that she's going to be a nurse istead of a fulltime rocker ;-). Zberg daughter of Tony Berg who is an absolute one of a kind..also smart sexy bitch....Look out here she comes !! Kaveh Rastagar bassist and darling extraornidare. Stuart Johnson uber talented drummer and darling double. Joe Karnes wonderful Bassist and best kind of company especially when were rapping in the car after a show on the late night drive up the 405. The Ditty Bops who undoubtably the most creative witches i know. I miss our walks !! Sasha smith keys whiz and friend from way back home. Here in the UK i am just starting out but have been fortunate enough to find Jimmy Wallace who is a delight and a wonderon the guitar. Zoe Choitis who is a greek goddess and a sultry sexy singer. These people are some, and ofcourse not all, the greatest gifts in my life. To music !! To life !!

Influences:

early early folk songs, pop radio, chamber music,gospel music,20's to 40's jazz, ol' counrty, ol' blues, slave songs,dance Hall, murder ballads, rock and roll, blue grass, my back yard, Cat Stevens, Kate Bush, Edith Piaff,Blackbird Stitches, Crosby Stills n Nash, Bjork, Out Cast,The Faun Fables, Beck, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, The Roots, Tom Waits, Leanord Cohen, Pj Harvey, The Police, my best friends, my phone bill, what i ate for breakfast, what i didnt eat for breakfast. Say no to fast food and junk food music. Any music that is good...and may the lord help you if you can't tell the difference.