Alina Simone’s ‘Placelessness’ Due This Summer
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Longtime Mogger Alina Simone’s debut album, Placelessness, will be released by 54º40' or Fight!, the Michigan-based indie label runby the publishers of Copper Press, this August.
Alina Simone's Placelessness is a stunning album. Photo by Matthew SpencerThe album will sold at Simone’s shows starting later this month, and then will be released worldwide August 14.The album was produced by Steve Revitte, who has produced albums for The Liars, The Double and Black Dice. “The album features lots of, well, friends and old bandmates and the arrangements are much richer than my bare-bones EP ‘Prettier in theDark,’” Simone (who posts regularly on her mog, http://mog.com/Alina__Simone) wrote in an email. “The album features guitars and bass and drums (of course), but also cellos and violins, broken pianos and organs, strumstick and berimbau and some percussion built on live samples. The amazing Jerry Fuchs (who has toured as drummer for LCD Soundsystem and The Juan Maclean Project) plays drums on the album and Jon Petrow (The Cloud Room) played bass, violin and guitar. The rest of the folks who contributed are my should-be-famous friends.”Placelessness, a powerful loosely connected group of songs, is, essentially, about never really feeling “at home.” Explains Simone, “The album is about what is means to be from someplace and what it means to feel at home nowhere and about what ‘home’ really means anyways... Sometimes home is place. Sometimes it is really just one person. Sometimes it is a state of mind or a certain feeling. Sometimes nostalgia for ‘home’ is stronger than any feeling of actually BEING fully and finally AT home.”Simone was born in the Ukraine and says her “family came to the US as political refugees. My parents were forced to leave their country and their culture and that colored my whole life in a way. We arrived in the States while the Cold War was still raging and it was hard toforget that we were foreigners. I tried not to speak Russian in public, I tried to forget it at home, I Americanized my name. I spent most of my life in Massachusetts but the day after I finished college, I moved to Texas. And from there to New York City. And from there to Russia - actually, to Siberia, traditionally considered a place of exile. In search of home. And while I lived there and worked and travelled, in that big, endless silence, in search ofmy language and my culture and my long-lost family in St. Petersburg, I decided that all I really wanted was to be a singer. That maybe music was home. And those are all the things that my album is about.”Check Simone's Myspace page for tour dates and additional info:http://www.myspace.com/alinasimone
Alina Simone's Placelessness is a stunning album. Photo by Matthew SpencerThe album will sold at Simone’s shows starting later this month, and then will be released worldwide August 14.The album was produced by Steve Revitte, who has produced albums for The Liars, The Double and Black Dice. “The album features lots of, well, friends and old bandmates and the arrangements are much richer than my bare-bones EP ‘Prettier in theDark,’” Simone (who posts regularly on her mog, http://mog.com/Alina__Simone) wrote in an email. “The album features guitars and bass and drums (of course), but also cellos and violins, broken pianos and organs, strumstick and berimbau and some percussion built on live samples. The amazing Jerry Fuchs (who has toured as drummer for LCD Soundsystem and The Juan Maclean Project) plays drums on the album and Jon Petrow (The Cloud Room) played bass, violin and guitar. The rest of the folks who contributed are my should-be-famous friends.”Placelessness, a powerful loosely connected group of songs, is, essentially, about never really feeling “at home.” Explains Simone, “The album is about what is means to be from someplace and what it means to feel at home nowhere and about what ‘home’ really means anyways... Sometimes home is place. Sometimes it is really just one person. Sometimes it is a state of mind or a certain feeling. Sometimes nostalgia for ‘home’ is stronger than any feeling of actually BEING fully and finally AT home.”Simone was born in the Ukraine and says her “family came to the US as political refugees. My parents were forced to leave their country and their culture and that colored my whole life in a way. We arrived in the States while the Cold War was still raging and it was hard toforget that we were foreigners. I tried not to speak Russian in public, I tried to forget it at home, I Americanized my name. I spent most of my life in Massachusetts but the day after I finished college, I moved to Texas. And from there to New York City. And from there to Russia - actually, to Siberia, traditionally considered a place of exile. In search of home. And while I lived there and worked and travelled, in that big, endless silence, in search ofmy language and my culture and my long-lost family in St. Petersburg, I decided that all I really wanted was to be a singer. That maybe music was home. And those are all the things that my album is about.”Check Simone's Myspace page for tour dates and additional info:http://www.myspace.com/alinasimone
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