On the heals of his most recent album, Subtitulo, Josh Rouse forms a new side project featuring artist Paz Suay under the name She’s Spanish, I’m American.
The five-song self titled EP features several duets together. "I thought it would be fun to do something with Paz cuz I like her voice, I like female singers with accents and I had some songs I thought she would sound good on. We both like to come up with cover images so it seemed like a perfect reason to start a project." Rouse stated.
The first single off She’s Spanish, I’m American is "Car Crash", a song based off the couple’s experiences bouncing around NYC in a taxicab. Paz elaborates: "Each time we go to NYC we get really frightened about how fast some of the taxi drivers go, and it's like, 'OK, I wanna live longer!' We'd like to make a video of this, and I'm sure we'll wear our seat belts!!!"
The initial recordings were done in their apartment in Valencia this summer, upon returning from several months of touring in support of Subtitulo; Paz mentions that after "spending some time on the road during the last US tour was a great and fun experience. So, when Josh came up with the idea of doing something else together, as a collaboration, it sounded very good to me." They sent several tracks back to their friend in Nashville, Daniel Tashian (who has written and played in Josh's band in the past) to add some finishing touches.
Josh is also currently working on his follow up to Subtitulo (to be released later next year) and is also preparing a career retrospective to be released on Rhino/Warner Brothers next year as well.
This EP will be available starting December 26th around the world online at iTunes and other fine digital service providers, with a US physical release to follow on Jan. 30th. International release date will be March 5th.
If you'd prefer the physical CD version, you can also pre-order it from us directly via awarestore.com
'Answers" ....a fast as light pop piece with gorgeous gentle vocals, felt like a good feature piece to showcase your work Paz, it is playing on the wow women tribute page today! I hope you and josh continue to team up your complimentary voices and songwriting to inspire us all.
Greetings from all here in Javea for the New Year and I hope its a good one...Looking forward to the future..whatever it is!!..Stay tuned along the way and hope to meet up sometime ...Peter
i wasn't sure where to write this down, but wanted to say for the record, in the bio up there josh says "i like paz's voice" but i LOVE paz's voice. josh. that is pretty understated. i'm just saying. LOL! :) i wish you a good night too, and have peaceful dreams! racquel
Each summer your voice as that of Josh has accompanied (?) us at the time of our holidays Thanks ps : We have almost same the records!!! A bientot en France j'espère bizzzzzzzzz
Con vuestro permiso un poco de promo...
Por fin aunque un poco tarde, nuestro cd está a la venta en internet al precio de 5€ a través de paypal. Encontrareis un link en nuestra web del myspace!!
Voxtrot: Kid Globes
The National: Fake Empire
Sister vanilla: Cant stop the rock
Los Planetas: Reunión en la cumbre
Andrew Bird: Heretics
She is Spanish I´m American: Car Crash
Marah: My heart is the bums on the street
Wilco: Impossible Germany
Von Südenfed: Rhinohead
Jesus And Mary Chain: My Girl
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