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Down Baby Down

by Gemma Ray

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The Letter 01:34
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Exo-Orbit 01:51
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No Star 03:23

about

Original press release:
Recorded in a few days in 2012 at Candy Bomber (ensconced in the former CIA headquarters wing of Berlin’s intimidating Tempelhof Airport), with a handful of musicians namely Thomas Wydler (of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) on drums, Rory More on organ, and Wilhelm Stegmeier on bass, it is 30 minutes of largely instrumental compositions coated with choral enhancement and ominous yet beautiful vocal motifs. Gemma herself takes care of all vocal, guitar, piano, clavioline, glockenspiel, melodica and dulcimer duties.
For want of a better description, Gemma calls them “fantasy soundtracks”, as the music escapes the trappings or the expectations of the pop or rock song. “It’s probably my most honest and satisfyingly free work to date”, she says. She makes no secret of her love of composers such as Komeda (of Roman Polanski soundtracks fame), Morricone, John Barry, or Jack Nitzsche (see Tarantino’s Death Proof) , and this collection of compositions reveals Gemma’s more darkly musical imaginings. They unfold on their own pictorial journey through deserts, mountains and ghettos, lithely sinking through jazz-noir, gothic folk, fucked-up rock’n’roll, and out into deathly space.
From the ethereal landscape of The Low Rising to the desolate horror of No Star, Down Baby Down is all at once soothing, fragile, sweeping, intense, twisted, sexual, and bad-ass .

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released April 2, 2021

Recorded and mixed by Ingo Krauss
All songs written and produced by Gemma Ray.
Gemma Ray - voices, guitar, piano, clavioline, glockenspiel, melodica, dulcimer
Thomas Wydler - drums and percussion
Rory More - Lowrey, Hammond
Wilhelm Stegmeier - double bass (on 1)

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