rachele eve guastella- songwriter/vocals/acoustic guitar nikolai giefer- drums/production kate drown- clarinet
contact: rachele@racheleeve.com
Influences
The Beatles, Fiona Apple, Bob Dylan, Feist, Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton, St. Vincent, Cake, Talking Heads, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Field Music
Rachele Eve set out for the windy city with a hope-filled bag in 2006. On the search for a much more intimate yet driving sound, it was not even a month until she met her partner, Nikolai Giefer, a drummer and producer that relocated to Chicago after Hurricane Katrina. The two released Winchester Sessions, a collection of six new compositions, later to be revised under the name Joys and Toys. Unlike other duos, the balance of Rachele Eve's organic lyrical and vocal expression and Nikolai's adept syncopation made for a symbiotic relationship, both innate and unprecedented.
In October of 2007, Giefer introduced Eve to his former professor and record producer John Snyder, a veteran in jazz recording (Miles Davis, Etta James) and founder of Artists House Music Foundation. A couple months after Snyder's visit to Chicago, he invited Eve down to Louisiana to record. After months of seeking out local musicians and fundraising for the album, Rachele Eve, Nikolai Giefer, and multi-instrumentalist Packy Lundholm ventured down to Dockside Studios in Maurice, Louisiana in July 2008. The three of them cranked out an astonishing fourteen songs in four days, making up Rachele Eve's first full-length album.
Entitled Mouth of Feathers, the distinct and unabridged instrumentation incorporates a modern yet vintage feel, colored with distorted guitars, toy piano, an accordion cameo, Wurlitzer, and Hammond B-3 organ. All behind her seamless whisper-to-wail vocal inflections the album is brave in parts and meek in others bringing about the entire spectrum of human emotion. The lyrical component of Mouth of Feathers illustrates more abstractly Eve's personal journey through being her own worst critic, finding a new love, and trying to make sense of society's strange antics. Rachele Eve's influences that are especially prominent on Mouth of Feathers include: Fiona Apple, Feist, Jon Brion, Regina Spektor, and Bob Dylan.
Eve, Lundholm, and Giefer returned to the windy city for the next steps towards completing the album and another addition was made-- a clarinet player by the name of Kate Drown--adding the finishing touches to Rachele Eve's long awaited record, now available on iTunes, CDBaby, and in print.
Yo Rachele Eve, Whenever I listen to your music. I feel like singing too. But your talent is unmatched. How much time you spend to rehearse per day Rachele Eve? Love ya. B PS:Follow Me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/iaent
Rachele! I saw you at the Lasalle Power Co show- I didnt know you would be opening. I haven't seen you perform since Tsuki... You were amazing then, but I was blown away by this show. All my friends were raving. Let me know when your next show is please!
Hey, Im having a graduation party on Sunday May 17 at Tini Martini! House Music DJ Kristin and I on drums are performing! There is going to be a live painter, film work, photography, a dance group and House Music DJ Mark Grant is headlining the whole event!!! =) All Columbia Grads performing together with a variety of arts! Right up your ally! FREE MARTINI'S FOR THE LADIES TILL 11pm & $5 BOMBS!!! Call me, I hope you can make it!!!
