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Artist: Lisa Germano
Website: www.lisagermano.com/
Track Name: Too Much Space
Playback: mp3
Download?: Yes

Lisa Germano is an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who over the years has released seven albums featuring her distinctive hushed vocal style, intimate confessional lyrics (it feels like like she’s singing into your ear ), and killer violin. You heard her violin on John Mellencamp’s “Lonesome Jubilee” album from the late 80′s. Her own music is nothing like that.

“True Space” is from her current album and is a wonderfully atmospheric piece, a good way to get into her work. She plays violin, piano/keyboards and guitar, as well as producing her own records with a ton of imagination.

Here is some hype from her current label Young God Records…

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 it’s about time Lisa had her due. in the maybe world features some of Lisa’s 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

Here is a track from here earlier album “Lullaby for Liquid Pig”, it’s called “Paper Doll” you can get this from Young God Records as well.

It make a couple of listens but Lisa Germano is the kind of artist you will have in your collection for a long time to come. Highly recommended

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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