Joanna Newson

Tiddlywinks

Just wondering if anyone else has heard of Joanna Newson? I discovered her c.d. a couple of weeks ago and have been addicted ever since, her voice and her music are enchanting!

Bip

yup yup yup shes brilliant, especially the song "Peach Plum Pear"... has to be one of the best feel good songs ever

John

I really like the album but I don't think her music has the longevity of the other "new weird" folkies.

ThatBloke

who are the others?

Rhyme

Amazing stuff... 'The Book of Right-On' is sensational stuff... She's an odd girl for sure, plays the harp straight upright in her seat and eyes wide open... scary

John

ThatBloke wrote:

who are the others?

Devendra Banhart, Antony and the Johnsons, Vetiver, Jana Hunter, Noah Georgeson, Mi and L'au, Baby Dee, Current 93 from the last ten years, Michael Gira's recent solo stuff.

ThatBloke

John2 wrote:

Devendra Banhart, Antony and the Johnsons, Vetiver, Jana Hunter, Noah Georgeson, Mi and L'au, Baby Dee, Current 93 from the last ten years, Michael Gira's recent solo stuff.

Heard of the first two, I'll get on to the rest, thanks

Crucifix

I saw her on Jools Holland last new year's eve and was spellbound. That was "The book of right on"; fantastic song, so erratic and charming.

jmc

Saw her at the Sugar Club last year. Fantastic stuff, brilliant rhythms on some of the tunes with just the harp.

PiE

Horrid.

DadaKopf

Yeah, Mi and 'Lau are fantastic. Saw them in the Boom Boom Room recently before Josephine Foster who pissed me off 'cos she kept singing about goblets. SO 1375.

John

DadaKopf wrote:

Yeah, Mi and 'Lau are fantastic. Saw them in the Boom Boom Room recently before Josephine Foster who pissed me off 'cos she kept singing about goblets. SO 1375.

I only found out they were playing the day after. Looking forward to getting my greasy mits on their new album. What I've heard so far is really good.

lordgoat

only recently found out about her... and i love it

Lunar Junkie

Joanna Newsom has a new album on the way in the next couple of months, if anyone's interested.. apparently it's not just voice and harp this time, there are accompanying arrangements being done by Van Dyke Parks. She played all of her new material at a show a few weeks back, there's going to be just five songs on the new record but each of them is between eight and fifteen minutes long (!).. Her voice has changed a bit as well, from hearing some recent live recordings, it's less girlish and piercing now and she seems to have more control over it. I'm looking forward to the new record anyway. I disagree with the comment earlier on this thread that her music lacks longetivity, I think that her first album will be seen as something of a classic (or a cult classic, at least) in a few years.

John

Lunar Junkie wrote:

I disagree with the comment earlier on this thread that her music lacks longetivity, I think that her first album will be seen as something of a classic (or a cult classic, at least) in a few years.

Well after I wrote that, I forgot about the album. Then a few weeks ago I started listening to it again and frankly I disagree with what I wrote too.

Hip

You can see her playing a few tunes on the BBC website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A3212740