
Louise Patricia Crane launches the spellbinding single “Snake Oil” culled from her forthcoming album, “Deep Blue” across all digital platforms.
The singer and songwriter’s commanding presence is complemented on this track by luminaries including Jakko Jakszyk (King Crimson), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) and Scott Reeder (Kyuss / The Obsessed).
Stream & download the new single here.
Existing in a dreamlike headspace that embraces classic psychedelia, ethereal visions, romantic mythos and rapturous drama, Louise Patricia Crane‘s debut album is a twilit collection of uncommon class and chutzpah - emotional and fantastical realms writ large in a musical landscape where nothing is off limits, possessed of a rare magick to fire the imagination.
Of “Snake Oil”, Louise says: “I’d written a lot of notes on this notion of the “femme fatale”, looking at famous historical/legendary seductresses. I read in detail about Mata Hari, Catherine The Great, Guinevere, of Arthurian legend - they all had something in common. All were depicted as ‘seductresses’, ‘sexual deviants’, ‘man-eaters’, but when you dig a bit deeper it becomes apparent that these women - real or fictional - have not been fairly portrayed, yet their reputations as such largely remain - at least on a ‘popular culture’ surface level. This was interesting to me, as it still happens with women, speaking from personal experience too. If they want to label you in this guise of seductress, femme fatale, they will. Taking the snake oil has no effect. It won’t change anything”.
The driving, percussive onslaught of the track – an homage to the bombastic overwhelm of King Crimson’s live show opener “Drumsons”, something Louise had long been wanting to recapture in her own way – is augmented by a driving bassline from Reeder, and richly ornamented by Ian Anderson’s unmistakable flute playing.
Releasing on May 15th, 2020, the genesis of “Deep Blue” arrived when Louise began working in earnest with Stephen Carey, who she had first met when singing with The Eden House, and it became apparent that many of the musical ideas she had nurtured independently for years might have finally found a suitable creative foil. She was so thrilled by their early experiments together that she relocated from her native Belfast to rural Cambridgeshire to work on the record.
Pre-order “Deep Blue” on LP, CD and Digital formats, here.
Tracklist:
1. Deity
2. Snake Oil
3. Painted World
4. Cascading
5. Deep Blue
6. Ophelia
7. Isolde
8. The Eve of the Hunter
“Working with him has been a wonderful experience” says Louise: “I felt respected and in control of the process. He‘s also just a very talented musician who instils his playing with a lot of emotion and - dare I say it – femininity, which was so key for me and for this album. Stephen and I also share a lot of the same reverence for certain artists and aesthetics, namely Kate Bush’s "Hounds Of Love", which was my loose template for producing a record which can at one point touch on pop overtones, then the next moment take you somewhere much darker - proggy, yet still dreamy throughout”.
With an intuitive rhythm section of Eden House drummer Simon Rippin and bassist Steve Gibbons on board, a resolutely genre-free and unconventional sound began to evolve amidst a myriad of influences - from the rich and celestial sonics of classic Cocteau Twins to the timeless melodies of “White Album”-era Beatles and the maverick spark and earthy passions of early Tori Amos, not to mention non-musical inspiration such as the classic cult film Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders and the literary fiction of Angela Carter. It was to take on still new frontiers when King Crimson member Jakko Jakszyk came on board, contributing guitar tracks and backing vocals.
“I can’t put in to words what it meant to have the singer and guitarist from King Crimson - who I’ve been unashamed about declaring as my favourite band - express a keen interest in my music”, says Louise.
Moreover, legendary artist Jim Fitzpatrick, famed for his work on Thin Lizzy’s “Jailbreak” amongst many others, was on hand to work on the album’s sleeve.
Yet these contributions, prestigious though they may be, only serve to accentuate an extremely well-defined and potent vision all Louise’s own. “My main overall theme on this album, is certainly escapism, seduction, dreaming - escaping the corporeal realm and going somewhere otherworldly that stimulates and tantalises” she notes. “I’m a total dreamer and art - for me - has always been about leaving this place and being taken away to somewhere more appealing to the senses”.
“Snake Oil” - Line-up:
Louise Patricia Crane - Vocals
Jakko Jakszyk - Backing vocals, guitar
Simon Rippin - Percussion
Stephen Carey - Guitar
Scott Reeder - Bass guitar
Ian Anderson - Flute
Weblinks:
www.facebook.com/louisepatriciacrane
louisepatriciacrane.bandcamp.com
The singer and songwriter’s commanding presence is complemented on this track by luminaries including Jakko Jakszyk (King Crimson), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) and Scott Reeder (Kyuss / The Obsessed).
Stream & download the new single here.
Existing in a dreamlike headspace that embraces classic psychedelia, ethereal visions, romantic mythos and rapturous drama, Louise Patricia Crane‘s debut album is a twilit collection of uncommon class and chutzpah - emotional and fantastical realms writ large in a musical landscape where nothing is off limits, possessed of a rare magick to fire the imagination.
Of “Snake Oil”, Louise says: “I’d written a lot of notes on this notion of the “femme fatale”, looking at famous historical/legendary seductresses. I read in detail about Mata Hari, Catherine The Great, Guinevere, of Arthurian legend - they all had something in common. All were depicted as ‘seductresses’, ‘sexual deviants’, ‘man-eaters’, but when you dig a bit deeper it becomes apparent that these women - real or fictional - have not been fairly portrayed, yet their reputations as such largely remain - at least on a ‘popular culture’ surface level. This was interesting to me, as it still happens with women, speaking from personal experience too. If they want to label you in this guise of seductress, femme fatale, they will. Taking the snake oil has no effect. It won’t change anything”.
The driving, percussive onslaught of the track – an homage to the bombastic overwhelm of King Crimson’s live show opener “Drumsons”, something Louise had long been wanting to recapture in her own way – is augmented by a driving bassline from Reeder, and richly ornamented by Ian Anderson’s unmistakable flute playing.
Releasing on May 15th, 2020, the genesis of “Deep Blue” arrived when Louise began working in earnest with Stephen Carey, who she had first met when singing with The Eden House, and it became apparent that many of the musical ideas she had nurtured independently for years might have finally found a suitable creative foil. She was so thrilled by their early experiments together that she relocated from her native Belfast to rural Cambridgeshire to work on the record.
Pre-order “Deep Blue” on LP, CD and Digital formats, here.
Tracklist:
1. Deity
2. Snake Oil
3. Painted World
4. Cascading
5. Deep Blue
6. Ophelia
7. Isolde
8. The Eve of the Hunter
“Working with him has been a wonderful experience” says Louise: “I felt respected and in control of the process. He‘s also just a very talented musician who instils his playing with a lot of emotion and - dare I say it – femininity, which was so key for me and for this album. Stephen and I also share a lot of the same reverence for certain artists and aesthetics, namely Kate Bush’s "Hounds Of Love", which was my loose template for producing a record which can at one point touch on pop overtones, then the next moment take you somewhere much darker - proggy, yet still dreamy throughout”.
With an intuitive rhythm section of Eden House drummer Simon Rippin and bassist Steve Gibbons on board, a resolutely genre-free and unconventional sound began to evolve amidst a myriad of influences - from the rich and celestial sonics of classic Cocteau Twins to the timeless melodies of “White Album”-era Beatles and the maverick spark and earthy passions of early Tori Amos, not to mention non-musical inspiration such as the classic cult film Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders and the literary fiction of Angela Carter. It was to take on still new frontiers when King Crimson member Jakko Jakszyk came on board, contributing guitar tracks and backing vocals.
“I can’t put in to words what it meant to have the singer and guitarist from King Crimson - who I’ve been unashamed about declaring as my favourite band - express a keen interest in my music”, says Louise.
Moreover, legendary artist Jim Fitzpatrick, famed for his work on Thin Lizzy’s “Jailbreak” amongst many others, was on hand to work on the album’s sleeve.
Yet these contributions, prestigious though they may be, only serve to accentuate an extremely well-defined and potent vision all Louise’s own. “My main overall theme on this album, is certainly escapism, seduction, dreaming - escaping the corporeal realm and going somewhere otherworldly that stimulates and tantalises” she notes. “I’m a total dreamer and art - for me - has always been about leaving this place and being taken away to somewhere more appealing to the senses”.
“Snake Oil” - Line-up:
Louise Patricia Crane - Vocals
Jakko Jakszyk - Backing vocals, guitar
Simon Rippin - Percussion
Stephen Carey - Guitar
Scott Reeder - Bass guitar
Ian Anderson - Flute
Weblinks:
www.facebook.com/louisepatriciacrane
louisepatriciacrane.bandcamp.com