ARTIST: Lisa Germano
TITLE: In the Maybe World
LABEL: Young God Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 187kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 33m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-06-27
RIP DATE: 2006-06-20
Track List
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1. The Day 1:58
2. Too Much Space 2:53
3. Moon In Hell 3:28
4. Golden Cities 2:55
5. Into Oblivion 4:10
6. In The Land Of Fairies 2:39
7. Wire 1:36
8. In The Maybe World 2:10
9. Red Thread 3:36
10. A Seed 1:54
11. Except For The Ghosts 3:02
12. After Monday 3:20
Release Notes:
http://www.lisagermano.com/
http://www.younggodrecords.com/
I am incredibly proud and pleased to announce the release of Lisa Germano's new
album on Young God Records. I have been a fan of Lisa's music for years. Her
songs are impossibly poignant and often heartbreakingly beautiful. She's a great
lyricist and singer but also an extremely talented multi-instrumentalist.
She plays violin, piano/keyboards and guitar with equal authority, as well as
producing her own records with great imaginative effect - the result is
seductive and truly magical. No one sounds like her. You get the feeling you're
walking through her dreams as you listen. The intensity of feeling in her
singing is a little frightening sometimes - it's like she's singing very close
to your ear, leading you through her ultra emotional world. It's a place I very
much enjoy visiting, and I hope you will too.
Lisa began releasing her music in the 90's, first on Capitol Records, and then
several more albums through 4AD. Perhaps most notable among them were the
fantastic Geek, The Girl, and Excerpts From A Love Circus. These records created
a very special "antique", lost carnival atmosphere - extremely personal,
simultaneously self-effacing and confrontational missives of emotional damage
and impossible love. She received a fair amount of acclaim at the time in
publications ranging from independent-oriented fanzines and magazines and on to
Spin, Rolling Stone, etc. In 2003 Lisa released the absolutely beautiful and
wrenching audio journey Lullaby For Liquid Pig, featuring woozy paeans to
alcohol, fantasy landscapes and out-of-focus dreams. Her side
projects/collaborations include the album OP8 (with Giant Sand and Calexico) in
which she is the featured singer, and diverse hired side-person stints with
David Bowie, Neil Finn, John Mellencamp, Simple Minds, Iggy Pop, Sheryl Crow and
others. As an artist/performer, in my opinion, she's right up there with the
cadre of strong, emotionally raw challenging and original women singers such as
PJ Harvey, Maryanne Faithful, Cat Power and Bjork, and itÆs about time Lisa had
her due. in the maybe world features some of LisaÆs best songs to date.
Typically, her (self) production and arrangements are inventive and completely
unique, the words cut right to the core and her voice carries you gently off
into a world where the distinctions between beauty, loss, love and pain tend to
blur. The songs are immediately gratifying and sensual, but are also ultimately
complicated and reward repeated listening. I hope you enjoy the music ! -
Michael Gira/Young God Records