Heretical Creep-Pop
Loves to make the music. Watches too much teevee. Lives in an old house in SE Portland w/ her beloved Jay and cat Rosie.Makes recordings with Jeff Stuart Saltzman , who makes everything sound better. Currently at work on another one.
Plays solo and in two bands, both fronted and fueled by the talented Chris Robley : Fear of Heights , and The Sort Ofs (co-founded by Robley and John Stewart ). Fear of Heights will be setting off on their first nationwide tour this March.
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"And that's the difficult artistic trick Brown has pulled off with "Ormolu." She's managed to construct a quick listen that feels almost epic, an album that demands to be encountered and examined again and again."
Scott D. Lewis, The Oregonian.
"Unlike anything else... incredible... a completely unique visionary."
Jim Brunberg, Mississippi Studios.
"Ormolu is only 23-1/2..minutes long and I guarantee that you will keep hitting the replay button on your CD player... over...and over... and over... Hell, I played it back to back five times in a row. This is a must have...will be in my TOP 10 list for album of the year." [Ormolu was named #2 Album of the Year]
Mark Collins, Women of the 90s Radio.
"Her voice sounds pure and gorgeous; her songwriting and sparse, piano-based arrangements are classic. Ormolu (is) a collection of hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking songs that illuminate what happens when love turns into something poisonous and people turn into something other than what we wanted."
Barbara Mitchell, The Portland Tribune.
"'Upright Man'" truly showcases Brown's voice and songwriting skills; the image she conjures of a man being trampled, almost peacefully, by a steady stream of foot traffic while repeating, "I'm under you" and "I'm a good man," is desperately sad, but ultimately very human and empathetic."
Amy McCullough, Willamette Week
"Brown never loses the humanity of each of the characters she creates, in the same way that Breugel could record our follies while also expressing the love he felt for our silly species. As with her past releases, Brown exercises her considerable range as a vocalist, reminding us of her classical work and her ability to put that to use to create dark expressionist tonal worlds like the ones found on Ormolu. Think Randy Newman meets Stravinsky."
Dave Mazza, The Portland Alliance.
(about Jonah Days)
"Brown's songs have been described as catchy alt-pop, but they're darker and subtler than that. Many of them have a twist that catches you by surprise... Dawning awareness that things aren't what they seem..."
David Stabler, The Oregonian.
"... she has created an album of gravity and substance, haunting in its charm - memorable in the grandeur of its effortless simplicity. This album is to music what John Sayles' "The Secret of Roan Inish" is to film: an enduring folk tale, rich with timeless images. Inspired and original."
S.P. Clarke, Two Louies Magazine.
"Brown spins out strange, unsettling stories about fate, bad timing, grand disappointments, cosmic punishments and the blurred line between dream and waking. (She) doesn't make it easy, but she makes it well worthwhile. A few times through Jonah Days and you'll agree."
Dave Mazza, The Portland Alliance.
Likes eating breakfast where they have cushy booths.
Please send Twiglets.you will make olga a shoe
