Member Since: 4/3/2006
Band Website: jessicasligter.com
Band Members: Jessica...and my laptop. I play the instruments, sing, record it with my laptop mic. Do the mixing etc etc. This is my hermit-music.
'I Wish' was recorded on a digital camera on an old Friesian ship somewhere on the water in the north of Holland, one sunny day, and my good friend Eva sings one of the backing vocals.
Influences: lot of acoustic blues from the 30's, R.L. Burnside, Elizabeth Cotten, Vincent Gallo, Harmony Korine, Jim Jarmusch, Gregorian Chant, Marc Ribot in this case especially 'Saints', Olöf Arnalds, The Shaggs, Sigridur Nielsdottur, Vashti Bunyan, Nick Drake, Tyft, Elliott Smith, early Betty Carter, late Romantic music, -the visits to the operahouse with my mum, wearing my punky outfits, people gazing. Pink carpet in the hallways, red chairs inside and little star-lights on the ceiling. Once I was paralyzed and couldn't clap. Was that Janacek's Katja Kabanova?-, Tom Waits, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Chloë Sevigny, early Baroque music, Ravel, Mum, Jacques Brel, Emiliana Torrini, Beth Gibbons, Edith Piaf, Goldmund, Bjork, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, David Grubbs, Slowblow, The Life Aquatic-techno song, etc...
Record Label: none. searching, searching...
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