Mama's Gonna Give You Love (Acoustic Version)

Taken from the album 'Mama' - Out Now

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Mama's Gonna Give You Love (single Version)

I woke up one more a while back and couldn't stop singing this song... Sometimes when that happens i have to record it and usually i keep these small events to myself.  I thought I'd share this one with you in celebration of a few shows I'm playing on the west coast next month.  enjoy!
June 17. Los Angeles. The Echo http://www.theecho.com/event/559295-emily-wells-los-angeles/

June 20. San Francisco. Rickshaw Stop http://www.rickshawstop.com/event/559865-emily-wells-san-francisco/

June 21. Seattle. The Crocodile http://www.thecrocodile.com/event/556821-emily-wells-seattle/

June 22. Portland. Doug Fir http://www.dougfirlounge.com/event/556833-emily-wells-portland/

What is Love (cover)

To celebrate the west coast tour a I made this little mashup... Stevie Nicks+Dr.Dre+JayZ

Stand Back On Your Big Ego

"Don't Use Me Up" was among the first songs written for the album some time ago during a time of particular abandon. I joke that it's a song about whiskey, friendship and Jesus, but in truth it was an s.o.s. to myself, to my future self, to people I loved, intended to remind us that the body is finite.  As time passes so grows the meaning of the song and I now think most often of the finiteness of the planet when I sing it.  The recording is one shade shy of a gospel hangover with all the instruments tempted to come off the rails when things get too quiet.

Don't Use Me Up

"Promise", the new album from Emily Wells, is a soul record in baroque clothing. It is a pauper's opera about friendship, romance and risk; an occasional relic about forgetting and desire. Its title is derived from the installation "Promesa" by Cabella/Carceller, portrayed on the album's cover, which depicts abandoned sites of pleasure. 

You Dream Of China

Take It Easy

Mama

Instrumental

Johnny Cash's Mama's House

Mama's Gonna Give You Love

Let Your Guard Down

Darlin'

No Good

Passenger

As a follow up to her critically acclaimed album “Promise”, Emily Wells will release an EP of B sides, remixes / live arrangements March 3, 2017.  With a belief in the sovereignty of melody to hold a song to itself, Wells consistently bends and re-renders her original works to almost entirely new forms in her live performances.  Not wanting her months of touring to fall away entirely to the ephemeral Wells has recorded a few of the arrangements in their new forms.  There are also the songs written and recorded during the creation of “Promise” that were not made for the record.  This release seeks to give all of these works a home.  She will tour in support of the EP in select US and European cities. 

Praise for Wells' latest full length "Promise" + Live performances :

• “Quietly transfixing…Ms. Wells works in the manner of what Walt Whitman called “a noiseless, patient spider,” sending out filament after filament until a structure begins to form.” –NEW YORK TIMES

•"The shape-shifting string virtuoso ignores genre boundaries while conjuring a uniquely affecting session of atmospheric folk..." - RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY 

• “Extraordinary, presenting a sort of ambient gospel-folk music that’s immersed in secular desires and experiences.” – NPR

• "...unconventional and rather moving.." - NOISEY

• “‘Promise’ is a record like few others – both tangible and smoky, guttural and delicate, it treads atop a thin sheet of ice throughout, yet remains unafraid to bask in the warmth of its creator.” – DIY

Pack Of Nobodies (live Arrangement)

As a follow up to her critically acclaimed album “Promise”, an EP of B sides, remixes / live arrangements.  With a belief in the sovereignty of melody to hold a song to itself, Wells consistently bends and re-renders her original works to almost entirely new forms in her live performances.  Not wanting her months of touring to fall away entirely to the ephemeral Wells has recorded a few of the arrangements in their new forms.  There are also the songs written and recorded during the creation of “Promise” that were not made for the record.  This release seeks to give all of these works a home.  

Praise for Wells' latest full length "Promise" + Live performances :

• “Quietly transfixing…Ms. Wells works in the manner of what Walt Whitman called “a noiseless, patient spider,” sending out filament after filament until a structure begins to form.” –NEW YORK TIMES

•"The shape-shifting string virtuoso ignores genre boundaries while conjuring a uniquely affecting session of atmospheric folk..." - RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY 

• “Extraordinary, presenting a sort of ambient gospel-folk music that’s immersed in secular desires and experiences.” – NPR

• "...unconventional and rather moving.." - NOISEY

• “‘Promise’ is a record like few others – both tangible and smoky, guttural and delicate, it treads atop a thin sheet of ice throughout, yet remains unafraid to bask in the warmth of its creator.” – DIY

Antidote (live Arrangement)

I'm No Heroine

I didn’t think this song was going to be on the EP and then it ended up becoming, in many ways, its anchor. I had written it, after seeing “A Streetcar Named Desire” at Saint Ann’s Warehouse, and performed it a few times, but I wasn’t quite sure how I wanted to record it. Then November 8th passed and the line between madness and agony and empathy became more blurry than it had been even during the bloody summer in which it had was created. In those bleak days following the election I went to the studio each day and tried to give the blunt complexity of fear and grief I was experiencing to this song. The recording also contains a lot of tears for Leonard Cohen.


It’s only natural
It’s only natural
One ride away, one ride away from it
Some call it agony, some call it madness
Some call it empathy, some say clairvoyance 
One ride away
In the hot, in the hot
In the hot I got close to God
And if you want to know love
You will seek it
You will find it

In The Hot

Darlin (acoustic)

This World is Too _____ For You

Stay Up

Remind Me To Remember

03 Come On Doom Let's Party

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From Park Chan-wook’s upcoming movie 'Stoker', out March 1, 2013.
Becomes the Color

I became the color
i become the daughter and the son
When the feast is over
welcome to another one

Lay my body down down
down upon the water
wrapped up in the clothes of my mother and my father
o this is longing
i want to be complete
I was waiting round in a little jump seat
i had a hunger
a mouthful of interludes
Youll do anything just to get rescued
I had longing
isn't that the key
take take taste taste sweet
They said I'd gone south
I'd gone asunder
They don't know hunger or what I been under
They were all laughing
thought i was debris
I was just free

We were ready to behave
But there's no freedom
w/out no cage

Whatever you think you've become
Don't worry bout it dear it's where you come from.

O no no, take me from my misery
There's no such, thing as living comfortably
There's no such, thing as going home
I'm not formed of myself alone
All the other others they'll just fade to black
When you think you have me's when i don't look back
Keep on laughing, callin after me
Keep on laughin, I'm just free

We were ready to behave
But there's no freedom
w/out no cage

Whatever you think you've become
Don't worry bout it dear it's where you come from.

Emily Wells - Becomes The Color (from STOKER)

In The Dark Moving

Hymn For The New World (Minimal Recording)

Your Apocalypse Was Fab (Minimal Recording)

Rock N Roll Man (Minimal Recording)

Eulogy For The Lucky (Minimal Recording)

Ruthie (Minimal Recording)

I Need A Placebo (Minimal Recording)

Come On Doom, Lets Party (Minimal Recording)

Stoker

Becomes The Color

From Mama Acoustic Recordings, available June 11, 2013 on Partisan Records.

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Emily Wellls - Los Angeles

After appearing alongside Clint Mansell and Philip Glass on the soundtrack for Park Chan-Wook's recent psychological thriller Stoker, Emily Wells prepares to release her latest album and single.

Album ‘Mama’ (out June 3rd via Partisan) combines subtle hip-hop inflections and wide-ranging sounds with Emily’s distinctive feline vocals, creating a record that is simultaneously light & delicate with a bold punch of personality.

Contrasting with the heavy layering and electronics of the original, the European version of ‘Mama’ sees Wells re-imagining the entire record acoustically for a second disc and mirror version. These fresh renditions of an already unique record are stunningly austere, recorded solely with voice and guitar. Emily Wells has stripped off her own armour, leaving only her crystalline voice and equally unambiguous songwriting on display.

String-laden single ‘Passenger’ is released on April 29th. Its noir-ish tone is cinematic in its scope - a song that becomes a real focal point of Mama.

Watch the video for ‘Passenger’ here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXAaPvVaZDQ

From the start of her career, Wells’ musical interests were simply too wide ranging for just one instrument. Trained as a classical violinist, the Texan soon created her own sonic “spaceship,” an ever-growing pulsating arsenal of synthesizers, effects pedals and toy instruments, all tied together with live sampling and a genre-agnostic approach that is diverse, distinctive, and utterly her own. Honing her sound on a series of independent releases, including an acclaimed cover of The Notorious B.I.G.’s classic ‘Juicy’, it was these initial glimpses and the countless live dates both as bandleader and solo performer that carved out the musician she has become today.

The female singer-songwriter stable may be packed with unique voices and varying degrees of talent, but Emily Wells is an artist whose innate complexities lift her out of that particular stable and into a realm all of her own.


Emily Wells - Passenger (Kid Koala Remix)

After appearing alongside Clint Mansell and Philip Glass on the soundtrack for Park Chan-Wook's recent psychological thriller Stoker, Emily Wells prepares to release her debut UK album and single.

Album ‘Mama’ (out June 3rd via Partisan) combines subtle hip-hop inflections and wide-ranging sounds with Emily’s distinctive feline vocals, creating a record that is simultaneously light & delicate with a bold punch of personality.

Contrasting with the heavy layering and electronics of the original, the European version of ‘Mama’ sees Wells re-imagining the entire record acoustically for a second disc and mirror version. These fresh renditions of an already unique record are stunningly austere, recorded solely with voice and guitar. Emily Wells has stripped off her own armour, leaving only her crystalline voice and equally unambiguous songwriting on display.

String-laden single ‘Passenger’ is released on April 29th. Its noir-ish tone is cinematic in its scope - a song that becomes a real focal point of Mama.

Watch the video for ‘Passenger’ here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXAaPvVaZDQ

From the start of her career, Wells’ musical interests were simply too wide ranging for just one instrument. Trained as a classical violinist, the Texan soon created her own sonic “spaceship,” an ever-growing pulsating arsenal of synthesizers, effects pedals and toy instruments, all tied together with live sampling and a genre-agnostic approach that is diverse, distinctive, and utterly her own. Honing her sound on a series of independent releases, including an acclaimed cover of The Notorious B.I.G.’s classic ‘Juicy’, it was these initial glimpses and the countless live dates both as bandleader and solo performer that carved out the musician she has become today.

The female singer-songwriter stable may be packed with unique voices and varying degrees of talent, but Emily Wells is an artist whose innate complexities lift her out of that particular stable and into a realm all of her own.

2020 rework of the 2012 release from Mama

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