Browse by Artist: WEAVER, JANE

Artist:	WEAVER, JANE
Title:	Cherlokalate
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 009CD

2007 release. "Effervescent songbird Jane Weaver once again takes flight with this spellbinding collection of heartrending recordings.... immersed in the sounds of Linda Perhacs, Karen Dalton, Josephine Foster, These Trails and The Pink Fairies. Jane Weaver is a rare creature in the vanity-stricken world of female singers, and perhaps with a more generous roll of the dice we might all have heard of her. Serving her apprenticeship in the mid-nineties girl-guitar-pop outfit Kill Laura, Jane would go on to front Twisted Nerve's Misty Dixon and release her critically acclaimed solo mini-album, Like An Aspen Leaf, as well as recording a slew of singles with the help of Doves and an album for Mancunian music maverick Rob Gretton's Manchester Records which went unreleased following his death until Jane dusted down the tapes and released it through her very own Bird imprint. Cherlokalate is the highly anticipated follow up to 2006's critically acclaimed debut album proper, Seven Day Smile. Stripped back and laid bare, Jane's songwriting has moved from strength to strength and her dulcet tones have lost none of their potency. Jane's quiet riot continues unabashed as word spreads of her unassuming but bewitching talent." "Her voice is a thing of ethereal, folk sweetness." -- Mojo

Artist:	WEAVER, JANE
Title:	The Fallen By Watch Bird
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 022CD

"Taking influences from Eastern European children's cinema, Germanic kunstmärchen, '70s television music and early murmers of '80s synth-pop The Fallen By Watch Bird is a new conceptual pop project featuring seven chapters of cosmic aquatic folklore by songwriter Jane Weaver ( Misty Dixon / Bird Records / B-Music). Combining the sonic sisterhood of seven other musical actresses drawn from the past 40 years of soft-rock and femme-folk history under the collective moniker 'Septieme Soeur' the new LP features rare appearances from Wendy & Bonnie (harmonic creators of '60s soft psych teen-pop rarity Genesis), Lisa Jen (Starry eyed Welsh language Volk singer and female voice of Gruff Rhys's Candylion), Susan Christie (1969 Philadelphian top-ten pop starlet whose lost acoustic pop recordings were eventually released by Finders Keepers in 2006) alongside traditional Bosnian singer Behar and members of Misty Dixon. Casually alluding to a floating storyline based around missing seamen, telekinesis, avian messengers, white witchkraft and death & re-birth, Jane's fifth release is her first fully realised concept album. Sharing themes explored in her acclaimed 2002 LP Like An Aspen Leaf (recorded with members of the embryonic band Elbow) The Fallen By Watch Bird also revisits collaborative production techniques explored alongside Dave Tyack in her previous synth-fuelled girl-groop band Misty Dixon, which drew comparisons to American Spring and Suicide in shining reviews across the board. The project, recorded sporadically over a 2 year hiatus was initially conceived after assembling a one-off supergroop featuring Susan Christie and Wendy Flower under the direction of Andy Votel and Sean Ohagan as part of Jarvis Cocker's Meltdown Festival in 2007. The Fallen By Watch Bird is a rare foray into the public eye for Miss Weaver, after leaving a trail of carefully placed musical crumbs marking her retreat from Manchester's municipal public-eye as one-time omnipresent ambassador of Manchester's vibrant indie scene as part of New Order's management team, recording early singles with leading Mancunian cinematic alt-rock groop Doves."

Artist:	WEAVER, JANE
Title:	Seven Day Smile
Label:	BIRD (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	EGGS 002CD

"Jane Weaver is a rare creature in the vanity-stricken world of female singers, and perhaps with a more generous roll of the dice we might all have heard of her. Serving her apprenticeship in the mid-nineties girl-guitar-pop outfit Kill Laura, Weaver would go on to front Twisted Nerve's Misty Dixon and release her critically acclaimed solo mini-album, Like An Aspen Leaf. It was, however, somewhere in between that she secured a record deal with Mancunian music maverick Rob Gretton's Manchester Records. Working and playing live with the likes of Andy Votel, Badly Drawn Boy and Doves, the latter would help her to record a number of acclaimed singles and a debut solo album. However, when Rob Gretton sadly died his label went with him and the album never saw the light of day -- until now! At last, available for the first time on the brand new Cherry Red Records imprint, Bird Records, Seven Day Smile -- Jane Weaver's debut album proper featuring the affable talents of Doves as backing band -- avoids the anthemic arm-wavers, preferring heart-rending songs of fragile beauty. Both haunting and beautiful in equal measure, Weaver delivers a spellbinding collection of songs fusing gorgeous melodies, hypnotic vocal harmonies and nostalgic production with generous measures of Farfisa organ, melodica and understated guitars. Deeply personal, musically adept and heartfelt in the extreme, from the heart warming opener 'Slow Song' through to the luscious 'You're A Riot', this album will seduce and entrance you -- melting all but the cruellest of hearts."

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