Jolanda - Aubade

1.Waiting
2.Orchids
3.Lights Out
4.Astronaut
5.Baby Butterfly
6.Demian
7.Never to Return
8.We.. Can (Dawn Parade)
9.Aubade


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Jolanda - Aubade

In 2006, italian Singer-songwriter and piano player Jolanda started her project which involved a series of collaborations, the first of which was with guitarist Demian Endian. Classical studies and various experiences in the musical field lead to conscious songwriting with an international appeal, recently confirmed by her U.S. tour. “Arcane, full of energy, beyond styles…”: so the music of Jolanda has been defined, “… when she plays, it looks like she’s conducting a little imaginary orchestra between her fingers and her voice”. Jolanda’s songs tell about inner landscapes, restless astronauts, mirror reflexes, faceless children, shadows, memories in a parade, nightmares and ghosts. On stage, always just a few steps from Jolanda, are Demian Endian (guitar, arranger) and Eros Giuggia (sax). Jolanda also plays musical box, toy piano, kalimba and typewriter. During Fall 2008, when she was only 22, after many concerts in Europe, and having shared the stage with Joan as Policewoman, Amanda Rogers, Handsome Family, Jenny Sorrenti, Jolanda crosses the ocean to introduce her first release Wintry Rains Wailing (2006) to New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. One gig in San Francisco was recorded on the “Live in California EP”. On June 2010 Aubade her last record has been released in the USA through D.I.T. Records.




Verspielte Texte mit musikalischer Finesse instrumentalisiert. Die wunderbaren Songs von Jolanda selbst am Piano begleitet wurden mit Arrangements von Demian Endian auf der Gitarre untermalt. Jolanda interpretiert die Texte über Schmetterlinge und aus einem Wonderland stammende Szenerien mal durch die Variation ihrer wundervollen Stimme, dann wieder durch das rhythmische Klacken einer Schreibmaschine. Ohne metaphorische Aufladung, erwachen verstörte Mädchen und schattenhafte Geister, zusammen mit der Gitarrenbegleitung werden die Songs zu einer Traumwelt, in die man abtauchen kann aber doch immer wieder durch kleine Nuancen am wachenden Staunen gehalten wird.
Cindy Cordt 2011