Bass, loops, pianos and bright ideas-- Todd Sickafoose, Violin-- Alan Lin, Jacob Lawson, depending on which coast we're on... Piano and harmonies, Greta Gertler... Dean Sharp, Dan Morris, and Scott Amendola have played drums. Adam Levy, Nels Cline, and Morris Acevedo have played guitars... It varies...
Influences
Old pianos, orchestras tuning up. The woods-- creaky trees, clicking streams, twigs cracking underfoot. Whistling teapots. Screechy subways. Todd Sickafoose. Faun Fables. Emily Bezar. Happy Rhodes. Jane Siberry. Kate Bush. Tom Waits. Arvo Part. Annie Dillard, Henry Darger, Joseph Campbell, David Abram, Henry Miller, Emily Dickinson. & Many friends who are all doing neat things.
Sounds Like
"Here we have a homegrown, full blown young musical visionary, and a window into a part of the new San Francisco sound. This train is headed somewhere..." PURE MUSIC
“She’s the freshest voice in San Francisco” SAN FRANCISCO MAGAZINE
"...Enviaby literate and awesomely disciplined, Venable amplifies her power through a riveting soprano voice that stuns and enraptures so thouroughly that multiple listenings are required to begin unraveling her mysteries of music and meaning..." SF BAY GAURDIAN
“Noe Venable’s shivering, gravelly soprano and ghostly melodies are like poems and exorcisms...” PORTLAND MERCURY
"...the eerie guitar effects and hypnotic loops that haunt the corners of songs such as "Feral" distance Venable even further from the conventional singer-songwriter genre, giving her more in common with Tom Waits and Radiohead than with Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan." ACOUSTIC GUITAR MAGAZINE
"Ravishingly melodic" ANI DIFRANCO in introduction onstage...
Noe Venable is a singer-songwriter, composer, and poet. Having honed her songwriting and musicianship within the context of San Francisco’s rich experimental and jazz music scene, Venable has gone on to somewhat wider recognition through the release of five albums, as well as several national tours opening for such artists as Ani DiFranco and They Might be Giants.
Venable’s newest release, The Summer Storm Journals, has been four years in the making and may be her strongest statement to date. Written over the course of Venable’s transition from the west coast to New York City, and recorded in four different cities, this is an album about change: resisting it, fear in the face of it, surrender to it, and ultimately finding peace in the inescapable reality of uncertainty. Produced with Venable’s longtime collaborator, bassist Todd Sickafoose , the album features a stellar cast of musicians, including violinist Alan Lin , guitarist Adam Levy, (Norah Jones), and avant garde marimba virtuouso, Payton MacDonald, (Alarm Will Sound).
Over the course of recording the album, Noe has also been in school. This June, she graduated from Hunter College of the City University of New York. Noe is currently based in Cambridge, Massachussetts where, in addition to her musical pursuits, she is pursuing graduate studies in literature and comparative religion at Harvard Divinity School.
As well as performing her own music, Venable has lent her voice to many other projects. Several of Venable's songs are featured in the film, Cherish, by Finn Taylor, and her cover of Breakdown by Tom Petty was included in the album's soundtrack. In addition, her voice can be heard on numerous recordings by other artists, including Ani DiFranco, John Vanderslice, Julian Summerhill, Faun Fables, and Alice Bierhorst. Most recently, Venable started singing with the New York based band, Edison Woods.
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aw, bummed i missed your living room show. i got home around 9 and decided to check the schedule that night! maybe i can make it to rockwood before i split nyc at the end of august. i hope your studies were fruitful. you inspire me. keep making art :)
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I know you're a Mitsu friend.but please check out my other project Cinerex it's a little pop .A new album just came out.your support is important to me.
1) Audiomachie (6:21) 2) Une ombre vacille en serpentin virevoltant (6:58) 3) Bruissement de griserie (9:55) 4) Propensity to go forward (7:36) 5) Drawing of a Back with a Mouth (4:24) 6) Second Life (3:50)
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- The project was about trying to explore different poetry styles, always with different instrumentations and musical structures because I don't want to repeat a single one - An album not directly linked to the four previous ones, but with the impossible to avoid come back to fetish themes - Second Life is about the technological phenomena, but I got better things to do with my life than spending it on the clone of a capitalist society - We might as well hope for a real bankrupcy for all of us, it would be worth it to kill capitalism
Most of you will just want to listen to the music made available. Well, here it is with great streaming (right after MA VIE est ICI which is a reminder of my previous album conclusion) http://www.freakywaves.com
Congratulations on your performance last night. Your play was very touching and heartwarming. It was a treat and an honor to be part of the audience and to have had you share something so personal and genuine. Watching you had personal meaning for me and reminded me of a favorite quote....
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
You took mine away Noe. Your words and feelings and beautiful voice are an inspiration and always mesmerize me.
Hi Noe- Still loving your music and missing seeing you. I hope all is going well with you. We're going to be going east in June - probably right about the same time you'll be heading this way! Much Love, Monica
Hello Noe, it's the Philpin kid, love to you and I hope yer doing well, I thought you might enjoy this woman I'm playing guitar for, Amanda Jo Williams, there's live clips of us on her page and my blog and also here: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=dl00_yNt_p0&feature=channel_page
I recently discovered your music thru Terran and Bezar pages And it is as amazing as theirs So Thanks for this gift and a deep bow from the Netherlands
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