We asked the enigmatic duo to speak about their latest collection. Their newest collection, and ninth release For House Cats And Sea Fans is a lush musical journey, spanning emotion and genre, at times paying tribute to the no wave they both cut their teeth on. 'Patiently Waiting' 50 Cent Featuring Eminem 'Niggas shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house/And if you got a glass jaw you should watch your mouth/'Cause I'll break your face/Have. For almost two decades they have been quietly putting out spellbinding records. But their sound, as Nick Kent wrote, is “still unique - as sensual as a sleepwalker's wet dream,” and influences are synthesized smoothly into their private language. Other influences crept in over the albums, however, as Oren's writing palette expanded to include piano and as both of their folk/world music collections grew. You never know how many doors God is willing to close to. '90s), both worshiped Woody Allen and Fellini, both went to alternative high schools and both had become independent at an early age.Įchoes of all of these artists can be heard on Elysian Fields records, starting in 1996 with the Radioactive/Universal releases Elysian Fields and Bleed Your Cedar, and continuing through their Jetset, Play it Again Sam, Naive, Diluvian and Vicious Circle releases. The truth is, you never know what God has in store for you, but from what I have seen in my own life and what I have learned when my life didn’t go as planned, all along God had a totally different vision for my life, and now I know that what I wanted for myself would have destroyed me. Both had been to see the Bad Brains and Lounge Lizards (for whom Oren would play bass in the early and New York until a scholarship to New York University's drama department drew Jennifer to New York. Drawn together by a mutual love of The Beatles, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Iggy Pop, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Captain Beefheart, Ravi Shankar, Frédéric Chopin and Olivier Messiaen, founders Jennifer Charles and Oren Bloedow had traveled parallel paths in Washington, D.C. E lysian Fields came out of New York's legendary Knitting Factory, a hotbed of musical exploration and genre mixing and a hub of the vibrant 1990s downtown scene.
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