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█ ARTIST: Jenny Gillespie █
█ TITLE: Belita █
█ LABEL: Narooma Records █
█ GENRE: Indie █
█ BITRATE: 233kbps avg █
█ PLAYTIME: 0h 21min total █
█ RELEASE DATE: 2012-00-00 █
█ RIP DATE: 2012-02-23 █
█ URL: █
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█ 01. Creature Of Our Make 4:22 █
█ 02. Wooden Bench 3:41 █
█ 03. Mariposa 4:58 █
█ 04. Sunshine Blood 5:02 █
█ 05. Cheating Gong 3:16 █
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█ Jenny Gillespie's new EP Belita is an intoxicating blend of folk, indie █
█ pop and post-rock, produced by Jenny and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad █
█ Ismaily (Jolie Holland, Bonnie Prince Billy, Lou Reed.) In 2011, █
█ Gillespie had already self-produced 2 albums, the lush chamber folk of █
█ Light Year (2009) and the ambient progressive pop of Kindred (2010). █
█ After these musical journeys and turning thirty, Gillespie became more █
█ and more drawn to acoustic-based music, returning to the sound she first █
█ loved when she first picked up a guitar as a teenager. She wanted to █
█ strip things down, while maintaining a slanted, atmospheric element to █
█ her work, and spent time learning covers of Vashti Bunyan, Bert Jansch █
█ and Neil Young, and studying African and fingerpicking-style guitar at █
█ the Old Town School of Folk Music. Meeting by chance via a YouTube cover █
█ Gillespie performed of Sam Amidon's Saro, Ismaily, Amidon's longtime █
█ bandmate, contacted Jenny to share his appreciation of her version. From █
█ there a conversation grew about a possible collaboration, and Gillespie █
█ traveled from her hometown of Chicago to New York City to record a new █
█ work with Ismaily over the course of 2 weeks. They discovered common █
█ north stars of their musical vocabulary (Vashti Bunyan, Mark Kozelek, █
█ Joni Mitchell's Hejira, and Ali Farke Toure, among others) and decided █
█ they would create something that truly featured Gillespie's unique █
█ acoustic guitar playing, set often to open tunings inspired by █
█ Gillespie's most beloved influence, Joni Mitchell. The resulting EP, █
█ featuring turns by Amidon on back up vocals, Marc Ribot (Tom Waits) on █
█ electric guitar, is a nuanced and modern approach to the folk █
█ genre--globally influenced, but intimately rendered, with precise yet █
█ imaginative instrumentation; the listener will wander into and find new █
█ surprises, over repeated listens. █
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