pieta brown freeway

Pieta Brown (from the album Freeway available on Righteous Babe Records)
 
Taking an exit from the acoustic Roots backing of her earlier releases, Freeway, the recent recording from Pieta Brown, backs the dusky textures and secret-carrying tease of her vocals, granting chameleon-like changes for her delivery over an audio dream-soundscape. Recorded at Justin Vernon's April Base Studio with co-producer S. Carey (Bon Iver), Freeway puts the sweet seductions and fragile tones of Pieta Brown on marching rhythms keeping in time over rolling sonic clouds (“Before We Break”) while beats and fractured sounds cascade (“Bring Me”) and notes rise up (“Morning Fire”), flickering before being pulled into a groove as a rock’n’roll beat struts while it juggles decisions in the storyline (“The Hard Way”). The choice for a more experimental style wrap for Freeway was in place before recording occurred, Pieta Brown entering the studio with a batch of songs unfamiliar to her core backing band of co-producer S. Carey (drums), Mike Lewis (bass) and Jeremy Ylvisaker (guitar). Relying on human connection and a physical presence, Pieta Brown challenged the musicians to react to the songs, and each other. Freeway was recorded over the space of three days.
 
Relaxing on a lazy rhythm for “Ever a Time” Freeway opens its doors with the first cut drapes a breezy, summer Jazz feel over the rock rhythms of “Ask for More” and tenderly sways with Country Folk for “Coming Down Again”. Loss and liberation, endings and beginnings. Pieta Brown wanders through a fantasy world of musical creations, slowly reading pages from lives she passes as she shares wanderlust on an equally rambling melody with “Shelter Now”.
 
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