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Tracey Thorn

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About Me


18 June
The new Raise the Roof EP is out now, download from "iTunes
Tracklisting
1. Raise the Roof
2. The Book of Love
3. Raise the Roof (Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve Re-animation)
4. Smoke and Mirrors
May 16th
Out Of The Woods available now at HMV and iTunes
11 track LP on iTunes
Special 12 track with digi booklet on iTunes
Raise the Roof has been released as a single and I think is finally available from iTunes in the US - sorry for the delay there my friends across the water, don't quite know what happened, but still, better late than never, eh? Meanwhile, various mixes of Grand Canyon are out there in the clubs - no definite commercial release plans yet, but I will let you know as the plot develops. I am putting up the Ada mix of the track first, but I will be adding others later - hope you like.
The new album, Out Of The Woods, is my first solo project since A Distant Shore (1982) and features me working with a few different producers/collaborators, to come up with a record that (I hope) is a true reflection of who I am right now and what I love right now.
There's some serene techno emptiness from Martin Wheeler (Vector Lovers), a bit of modernist heartbreak house from Alex Santos, an amazing pastoral arrangement of flutes and flugels by Charles Webster.. I've done 2 songs with cagedbaby (Tom Gandey) one a kind of shimmery piece of Scritti Politti-style pop called Raise the Roof, and the other a downtempo lament about gay teenagers getting bullied at school, called A-Z.
But my main collaborator/producer is Ewan Pearson, and we've done seven tracks together. A cover of Arthur Russell's Get Around To It, featuring some wonky freakout sax from Gabe of The Rapture. A new song called It's All True, co-written with Sasse and Darshan Jesrani (Metro Area), which is pure early 80's New York dance pop. A piano ballad which Ewan says sounds like "The Carpenters on acid". Also a cover of King's Cross by the Pet Shop Boys, which isn't on the actual album (had too many songs!), but is available as a bonus track downloadable from iTunes.

The video for It's All True was directed by Si and Ad, and features a heavily stylised monochromatic dance routine, in which I feature almost invisibly....(which suits me just fine). The video for Raise the Roof was directed by Eduard Grau.. luv T xx

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Member Since: 8/17/2006
Band Website: ebtg.com
Band Members: Just me
Influences: Inspirations. Nicos Chelsea Girls, the Au Pairs live, Pete Shelley, Scritti Politti, Im still waiting by Diana Ross, Young Marble Giants, Patti Smith, Postcard records, Sandy Denny, Pet Shop Boys, Ceremony by New Order, Sufjan Stevens, Bless the Weather and Solid Air, Joanna Newsom, Evelyn Champagne King, Gypsies Tramps and Thieves by Cher, The Specials, Blossom Dearie, Aretha Franklin, The Smiths 1983-85, Jonathan Richman, Massive Attacks demos on cassette 1993, Judy Garland, Dusty Springfield, Mike Skinner, Low, Rufus Wainwright, Astrud Gilberto, Shannons Let the Music Play, Bjork and Polly Harvey at the Brits, Cocteau Twins, Arthur Russell, Roisin Murphy, Beth Gibbons, Phoenix, Vic Godards Whats the matter boy, and singing with Fairport Convention at Cropredy and Jeff Buckley at Glastonbury..
Sounds Like: bedsit disco torch songs

Raise The Roof

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It's All True

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Record Label: Virgin
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Songs and reading and fireworks

Oooops, been a bit lazy again, got some updating to do.Grand Canyon mixes out there now, available on iTunes - so if you want the King Unique, Dirty South and Ada mixes to love and keep then now is th...
Posted by Tracey Thorn on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:34:00 PST

Going To A Town...

.....that has already been burnt down....Yep, it can only mean one thing folks, I am following in Rufus's flip-flopped footsteps and heading out to Berlin. Only for a few days, mind, but in an attempt...
Posted by Tracey Thorn on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:01:00 PST

Queen of Nice

With any luck the King Unique mix of Grand Canyon will be up here on the page by the time you read this - seems to be uploading slowly, but fingers crossed....this week the mixes are no 1 in both Cool...
Posted by Tracey Thorn on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:26:00 PST

Gone Again

Off on holiday for a week tomorrow, so just letting you know in advance there will be no updates, no comments or friends added, absolutely nothing happening at all for a full seven days, and its nothi...
Posted by Tracey Thorn on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:38:00 PST

Grand like the canyon

Raise the Roof finally available from US iTunes - sorry for delay there - not sure what happened. But with that safely out of the way, I feel we can move on to something new, for instance, the remixes...
Posted by Tracey Thorn on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:56:00 PST

absence

Sorry for my absence for the last week or so - been away for a few days with the kids (yep, summer is here...kind of....) - and now I have returned home, but to a complete and mysterious absence of in...
Posted by Tracey Thorn on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:11:00 PST

buzz buzz buzz

Part III of the Ongoing Series "Questions Tracey Is Unable To Answer" - Will we be able to buy other tracks direct from your myspace page via snocap?And guess what the answer is folks? Yep, that's ri...
Posted by Tracey Thorn on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:51:00 PST

at last i am the bearer of good news

ah, yet another great lost morrissey title for you....anyway, the good news is for those of you in the US - the Rasie the Roof 3 track digital bundle will be available from US iTunes from July 17th.yi...
Posted by Tracey Thorn on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:30:00 PST

Raise the Roof

Lots and lots of messages coming in now asking about the release (or otherwise!) of Raise the Roof - sorry, I should have been a bit clearer on this one.....The fact is, it is coming out in the UK as...
Posted by Tracey Thorn on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:54:00 PST

love on the dancefloor

So, a hello and a high five (or possibly a handshake) to everyone i "met" on the dancefloor at cielo.....yeah i know it was 2 weeks ago now, but it's still worth a mention...ben played the most blindi...
Posted by Tracey Thorn on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:42:00 PST