Her Crooked Heart - Just Visiting Episode

From hercrookedheart.com Rachel Ries , the writer, multi-instrumentalist and producer behind Her Crooked Heart , demonstrates immense vulnerability and multifaceted musical craftsmanship in delivering personal and profound musical soliloquies on love, leaving and the life that follows after burning it all down. With To Love To Leave To Live (May 2019), Her Crooked Heart presents a debut record unique in form, made up of cyclical narratives and intertwining histories, each informing the next. The result is a transformative song cycle, led by a charismatic personality, wholly indifferent to expectations of genre and instrumentation.​ In 2013, after two and a half years of marriage, Ries found herself touring a record around the world, accompanied by a stack of divorce papers in a pocket of her suitcase. She had left her marriage and a good man in New York City and leapt into the untethered unknown. What transpired was in turns euphoria and despondence; old lessons learned in new ways. The songs on To Love To Leave To Live are a compassionate and at times wry catalogue of those tumultuous years. With co-producer Shane Leonard , she enlisted several collaborators whom she’d met on the road; some while touring with Anaïs Mitchell : Brian Joseph (Sufjan Stevens, Paul Simon), Rob Moose (yMusic, Alabama Shakes), Mike Lewis (Bon Iver), Alec Spiegelman (Cuddle Magic), Pat Keen , John DeHaven , Ben Lester and Rachel's own siblings. To bring these songs and this record to the stage, Ries has enlisted a powerful group of women; women who can, in their way, take on the feminine, humanist mantle of Her Crooked Heart and make it their own: Siri Undlin ( Humbird ), Adelyn Strei (Adro), Hilary James ( We are the Willows , Bathtub Cig). The quartet blends classical and electric guitar; piano and vintage synths; cello, woodwinds and drum triggers. This merging of acoustic and synthetic sounds is all in service of the voice: four part vocal harmonies that shift from ethereal to an elemental wail, always telling a story of transformation. Website- YouTube- Facebook-

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Her Crooked Heart - Just Visiting Episode is an episode from Skagit Valley You Don't Want to Miss This by Rudy Giecek, Rhonda Giecek .

This episode is 34:12 long.

This episode was published on Feb 2, 2020.

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