I'm going to be frank, Fall makes me feel sexy, and with that feeling comes music that feels like its caressing your face while you are having a glass of wine. Here is my sexy music pick for the first signs of fall - Emily Wells. Her music is an eclectic mix of electronics, orchestral strings, jazz tones, pop overtures, and folk sensibilities.
Born to a music minister in Amarillo, Texas, Wells began learning violin at 4 at a community college. The family later moved to Indianapolis, where she discovered Bob Dylan, Nina Simone and Biggie Smalls; she gradually moved from the Suzuki method to songwriting, guitars and home recording. Releasing her own music from a young age, Wells learned to keep her work close and toured independently while developing her talent and performance across the U.S.
It was in a humble garage studio in Los Angeles that Wells’ recorded her 2008 breakthrough album, The Symphonies: Dreams Memories & Parties, picking up praise from sources as varied as NPR and SPIN, who compared her to “a feral, streetwise Nina Simone.”
Wells returns with Mama, a collection of songs as impassioned and sultry hip hopped as ever, but infused with a new found warmth. Wells rented a tiny cabin on a Topanga Canyon horse ranch and went to work, producing Mama and playing most of the instruments herself (with a little help from longtime touring companions, drummer Sam Halterman and bassist Joey Reina.) She recorded the raw tracks to tape without punch-ins or loops, often in one take.
2012 finds Wells touring Mama, her first release for Partisan Records, and preparing for the release of Pillowfight, her long whispered-about collaboration with legendary producer Dan The Automator.
Ethereal, beautiful, deep, and soulful at times, Emily Wells is a little different from the normal music I listen to, but I know you will enjoy my favorite tracks, "Sugar" and "Becomes The Color" (which is featured in upcoming film, starring Nicole Kidman, Stoker,) and a wonderful cover of one of Emily's musical influences "Juicy."
I will see you my music lovelies next Monday with my new music obsession.
xooxoxoxoxo Najamoniq
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley
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