JOANNA NEWSOM'S BROTHER PETE NEWSOM FREE FOLK MOVEMENT

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Joanna Newsom'S Brother Pete Newsom Free Folk Movement

Joanna Newsom With her harp and waiflike voice, San Franciscos songstress is beguiling the free folk movement. Indie-folk goddess – and harpist – Joanna Newsom tells Sinéad Gleesonabout staying up late, losing her voice and the three-CD, two-hour, 17-track story that needed to be toldJoanna Newsom visits Londons Royal Festival Hall for two shows on 1112 May performing songs from her new album Have One On Me out 1 March on Drag City (and reviewed in the March 313 issue of The Wire).Shell be joined by folk singer and Taking in Xenakis and Lou Reed, Reinhold Friedls Berlin ensemble patrols New Musics extremes. The IBO logo is and white 2. Move head forward and back Down 1. With 6D, Group 2: (language of Pericles) 52. Group 4: Study of composition and properties of matter 50.

So to some extent my natural cycle is connected to creative work at night but then it goes off the edge into unfocused, manic, late-night opera.”Opera is an apt choice of word, as it’s one that has appeared in the reams of column inches afforded to her last album. “Sometimes I try to justify staying up so late, but I think there’s a peak of creative fertility, which then degrades as the night goes on and your work gets less focused. Get your own music profile at Last.fm, the world’s Like many musicians, Newsom is a night owl, often working towards dawn in the hope of tapping a creative vein. IcyLucifer’s top artists: , The Dear Hunter, of Montreal. It’s dark where I am and sunny where she is and, when she answers, we invariably have a conversation about time differences, astronomy and night-time.Listen to music from IcyLucifer’s library (47,423 tracks played).

In this case, there was a wider story arc than the normal shape of an album.”Language is central to Newsom’s music – something to be experimented with. To make any album you have to let it tell its story the way it wants to be told. They were too innately bound to all the other songs to separate them.“This might sound very pretentious, but I thought that, if I took them out, people would feel the gaps where the songs had once been. The title track runs to 11 minutes and, given the scale and breadth of the stories, for some, opera is a fair comparison.“I don’t know much about opera, much to my mothers horror – and I don’t really understand the form, so it’s a big gap in my understanding of music.”Ys, Newsom’s 2005 album, contained five tracks, so why the leap in size? “I felt that if the album wasn’t the size it is, several songs would not be usable in another form.

They relented when she was five, and her lifelong connection to it began.Irish connotations aside, there is something old-fashioned about the harp, and it must a logistical nightmare on tour. Newsom started piano lessons at the age of four, but was drawn to the harp, badgering her parents to allow her to learn to play. I loved music but I wasn’t sure it would end up being something I would do, full time.”For most kids with a musical bent there is the obligatory music tuition. I went to school intending to follow that path, but there were other times in my life – say, all of my high school years – where I was also taking dance classes, theatre classes and was in a creative writing club. Her interests were broad, but she admits that she wasn’t completely focused.“I always knew that music would be in my life, and there was a long time where I thought I was going to be a composer – in the classical sense.

Her brother Pete is also a musician, and her sister Emily, an astrophysicist, collaborated on her album Ys on a song named after her. It’s an incredibly impractical instrument, and I really liked that about it.”Newsom’s love of music was fostered and encouraged by her parents her father played the guitar and her mother is a classically trained pianist. There’s something about the instrument that is excessively beautiful. Then and now, I’m drawn to a chaotic visual aesthetic and the harp corresponded to that in my mind. I used to put together these outfits where I had scarves tied everywhere. To me it just had this innate magic, and I was always drawn to the most baroque things.

“You know what? Every time I talk about my family in an interview, I regret it later. My mom is still musical and my dad plays guitar as more of a hobby, but my mom plays a lot of instruments.”At this point, Newsom interrupts herself. She’s also a really good cellist, so I’m still hoping to convince her to do a tour with me some day. We would sing in the bathroom brushing our teeth before bedtime and she has an amazing voice, but is shy about singing.“Musically speaking, she was the most gifted of the three of us kids.

Once you’ve had vocal chord nodes, it’s like a fault line you have an increased likelihood that it’ll happen again but I’m trying to do things to prevent.”Since then, Newsom has changed a lot of things about the way she sings. She was terrified.“Surgery is an option, and is generally successful, but if anything goes wrong you can lose your voice forever. She couldn’t sing – or cry. She “had a feeling” the nodes were there, and after some intensive rehearsals in a poorly ventilated room (and lashings of whiskey), her voice was gone. Kate Bush, banshee, psyche folk, Appalachian, choral, classical: Newsom has heard them all.“The different words don’t bother me, and I sympathise in a way because, when someone asks me to describe how I sing, I can’t.” Last year she had experienced every singer’s nightmare, developing nodules on her vocal chords. She laughs a lot and is polite and considered in her answers – a far cry from the difficult interviewee I was warned she might be.At the centre of this massive record is, of course, that voice – the one critics tie themselves up in knots to describe.

He’ll be playing kaval, guitar, recorder and banjo, Neil Morgan is on drums and I’ll have two violinists and a trombonist.”At her last gig here, looking slightly like Annie Lennox in the video for There Must Be an Angel, Newsom told a joke (“How many hippies does it take to screw in a light bulb? Hippies don’t screw in light bulbs they screw in dirty sleeping bags”), and the crowd loved it. “I’ll have my band with me – including Ryan Francesconi, who did all the arrangements on the album. In Dublin next week, she plays with her full band, which differs from the last sold-out shows she played here, where it was just her and her harp.

Joanna Newsom&#39;S Brother Pete Newsom

Joanna Newsom'S Brother Pete Newsom