jes lenee' wrote music and felt compelled to play it. she found a boy who would beat drums. while she played, she felt as a new land opened up visually so while she was walking down the hill there was another boy, derick, with a paint brush who liked music. he began to paint pictures on a canvas behind them as they played. jes and derick journeyed to many places around earth playing music and had a nice time. when they came back there was a girl sitting in the apple tree with her cello. "we asked her to play with us and now we are a band."
****Announcing Autumn Shade, our latest addition to the roster. Autumn Shade is the nom de plume of Jes Lenee', a stunning young songstress brimming with unbridled talent, possessing a voice as entrancing as any your ears will have heard in this lifetime. Lenee' is a classically trained piano prodigy, who at the age of eleven was penning songs that won award recognition. Ultimately seduced by the craft of songwriting, Autumn Shade is a marriage of her piano prowess and folk-inspired guitar strumming, imbued in a heady ambiance and enveloped in some of the most angelic, intimate vocals to have come down the pike in some time. Set to splash with their full-length debut Ezra Moon, Autumn Shade has concocted a fascinating foray into an ethereal, yet emotionally raw netherworld. Piano, bass, autoharp, keyboards, violin, hammer dulcimer and percussion are stirred into the mix; adding a healthy penchant for sonic experimentation, Ezra Moon is a journey into a unique sepia-toned soundworld, one that intertwines folk, chamber music, psychedelia, rock and singer/songwriter. Reminiscent of the female artists that helped define the 4AD sound (a la Kendra Smith and Lisa Germano), Lenee's classical roots and compositional sense invoke the avant-chamber feel of Rachel's, if they were fronted by the hazy folk atmosphere Marissa Nadler resides in. Strange Attractors is proud to announce the release of Ezra Moon, slated for March 13, 2007. * from strange-attractors.com
****Occupying an avant-rock world triangulated between the chilly post-rock modernism of Rachel's, Lisa Germano's emotionally raw vocal style and keening violin, and the childlike wonder of Joanna Newsom, the debut album by Autumn Shade is an intriguing, often engrossing listen. The centerpiece of Autumn Shade is Jes Leneé, a Tulsa-based instrumental prodigy whose piano and acoustic guitar are at the root of the songs. Violin, dulcimer, percussion and other instruments fade in and out of the mix underneath Leneé's instantly attractive vocals, a mixture of high-register wails and a less ethereal low register that strongly recalls Germano's sadder-but-wiser vocal persona. The lyrics are an often abstruse metaphorical salad that rarely press a literal picture onto the listener but remain emotionally effective through Leneé's skillful delivery and the melodic strength of the folk and country-tinged tunes. (The title track in particular is an absolute heartbreaker.) Many albums in what's been dubbed the "new weird folk" scene are so evanescent that they dissolve upon close listening, but Autumn Shade's blend of gothic atmospheres (in the sense of both Flannery O'Connor and 4AD Records) and straightforward tunefulness makes it a far more satisfying album than most. by Stewart Mason- allmusic.com
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