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Raised in Northern California without electricity, Brisa Roché surfed the waves made by an artist mother and adventurer father, before leaving home with her guitar at 16 to spend the glory days of Grunge in Seattle. There she traded her acoustic for an electric and began roughening up her voice of young Joni Mitchell, inspired by the release of PJ Harvey's "Dry". Various Emo-Pop projects later, a year in Europe, collaborations and compositions, more searching for a voice less pure and more representative of her experience.
The death of her father inspired Brisa to turn towards the masculine night-life world of jazz. She moved to Paris and plunged into the role of bandleader and frontwoman, improvising over obscure standards 5 nights a week in the stone "caves" of St. Germain, cutting her teeth and learning to command the stage, choosing to put the vulnerablity of her own songwriting aside, in favor of the intense universal emotion and vocal freedom she discovered through jazz. However, once discovered by Blue Note and signed to EMI in 2004, Brisa released a critically aclaimed first record of spacey, cinematic pop "The Chase", ready once again to confront music through songs written by her own hand.
Her second album, "TAKES" came out on Discograph, psyche-pop with layers of dreamy Californian vocals and an accessible folk element, including collaborations with Nick Zinner of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. After a 60 date tour, Brisa decided to produce on her own, went into hiding with her band and came out with an astonishingly compact third record, hard heavy vocals with Blondie-esque hooks, a band-sound bordering on garage. ALL RIGHT NOW.
ALL RIGHT NOW.
ALL RIGHT NOW TOLD BY BRISA:
"In electric-blue moccasins, surrounded by my band in a remote solar-powered California studio, I danced around like a pre-teen, microphone in hand. This is how ALL RIGHT NOW was written. Following the European tour for "TAKES", I flew us all out to my parents' land, where I set up a studio in my mom's artists' cottage . A week later we had 20 new songs, built upon improvisation with the structured lyrics I'd brought along as our guide, driven only by our fun and the limitations of the power-system; the vintage keyboards didn't work with solar voltage, so we used my sister's 2002 Yamaha (by default at first, until we found ourselves carried away by its 1980's emotional sound!). Planes and trains later, we found ourselves lit by stained-glass windows, ready to record, in a brick 1869 church in upstate NY, sound engineer Henry Hirsch's (Lenny Kravitz, Madonna, Mick Jagger) new studio. We played together live on the vaulted congregation-room stage (where the pulpit would have been!) as Henry recorded us on two inch tape, through his 3M 24 track.
The record we made there, ALL RIGHT NOW, is the love story of our band, what it felt like to be philosophically and animally aligned during our 60 show tour together, and how happy I was to take everyone home with me afterwards, how joyful we were to be living, writing and playing half-naked in the wilderness of northern California. There were many beds and we took turns dreaming in them, including one in the tree-house, so that we all had a turn on the good mattress. I pinned glow-in-the-dark name tags on our towels and napkins to conserve water, and we bathed in the river, the pond and under a strung-up solar shower. My life-long friend Leona cooked incredible California cuisine on the outdoor cookstove. Then Gregon, our tour manager, came out to water my parents' gardens while we worked and fix us chocolate chip muffins and Brazilian stew. We tried some kind of herbal drug-trip by the fire in the tee-pee, with no effect except our monk-like vocal harmonizing-- it seems our own high feeling of inspiration had no rival!
Our amps were turned up loud and we had the sun, eachother, and our common creation. I sat in my 1950's cotton nightgown in front of my Mac and Protools, clicking and tapping, plugged into solar, and then, at last, we had the 14 songs down solid, as demos that would become ALL RIGHT NOW. That's when I let us down off the mountain into town (Arcata). I should say more, too, about the NY church, because it was miraculous, after living such natural intensity for the song-writing, to find it again in a setting so different, but equally grandiose and other-worldly! Gothic church. Heated to 90 degrees, day and night. Live on tape. Colored rays of light. Playing together what we'd written together! But, I don't want to mislead you. Our belief that ALL RIGHT NOW has a will of its own is the most spiritual part of it; the music itself is more Pre-Teen-Animal-Garage-Disco-Psyche-Pop and less serious (but still emotional!) than its church-and-nature settings imply. I think ALL RIGHT NOW tells our story all on its own, a love-story between three boys, two girls and the world."
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Band Members are
Brisa Roche
Pirzo on drums
Lena Deluxe on keyboards
Jay in Space on guitar
Richard Horon on bass
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