Jessie Shaffer - guitar, vocals, songwriter
Heather Courtney - drums, vocals, songwriter
Bex Lee - violin, vocals
J Schultz - bass
Matt Boyle - guitar, vocals

Recorded by Matt Boyle, mixing by Matt Boyle, Sean R Ferguson, and Aaron Martinez.

Framed

4 Gratie

3 Syren

2 Perplexia

1 Fractured Farie Song

10 Veiw From The Summer House

Fall 2011,
Home from a fall Goldenboy tour ("The Galavanting Around Tour"). Jon and I went to a halloween costume party at our friend's house. I ate a wee bit of psychedelic mushroom and danced around in my "Staisy Driftwood Dress" with tap shoes on. Learning of two particular broken relationships left me feeling sad. Perhaps, a foreshadowing of my own coming relationship turmoil. Jon was dressed up like a Leprechaun and didn't want to leave when our ride was leaving. So, we left him at the party... my friend dropped me off at our apartment... and when I got home, still slightly tripping... I wrote this song.

Blue Halloween

I learned this song from the Jim Beloff book, "Gone Hawaiian". I am using only my computer to record my voice, ukulele, guitar, organ and then mixing and adding effects in garageband. I am using lots of reverb to mask my pitch problems and make it sound dreamy. I want to make music that doesn't hurt. How did I do?
Sweet Leilani was written by Harry Owens and published in 1963


Sweet Leilani

This is a sampling of the live score composed for Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman, directed by James Thompkins and produced in the University of Louisville theatre departments main season, Spring 2009.  Written and recorded by Marisa J. Barnes.  Cello and percussion: James Vaughn, guitar, tin whistle, and percussion: Marisa J. Barnes, piano and guitar (on Ascent and Myrrha): Kate Holland.  This was my first work as a sound designer.

Music for Metamorphoses (Selections)

Hello Goodbye. Love is where you look for it. 
First song recorded at my new place in Los Feliz.

Love is powerful. 

Out of Town

Improvisation with Tem Noon one September evening in my empty home in Clyde, Kansas before moving in...

Tabla ~ http://soundcloud.com/tem-noon
Banjo ~ http://soundcloud.com/c-napier

Tabla & Banjo 1

To listen to more of my collaborative work, go to:
https://soundcloud.com/cutleri
https://soundcloud.com/littlebones
https://soundcloud.com/plasticshores
https://soundcloud.com/the-grind-4/sets/carpe-diem


“Engages with discourses of memory and nostalgia...a relationship to history, and to artistic tradition, is a central factor in the way the music means. Shaffer chooses to employ a well established, ‘folk’ creative lexicon. She combines its signifiers according to a grammar of her own making, however, one of a decidedly modern, culturally self-aware cast. This applies equally to her musical materials, her performances and her lyrical content. She plays mandolin, some violin...and she sings; stylistically, it is clearly located in a folksong tradition, but it’s a curiously mid-Atlantic one. There are obvious elements of Americana, but a lot more than a nod to European sounds, and there is a gleeful affinity for the expressive potential of dissonance (as in the keening ‘Keen’). Her words are mysterious, delicately balanced possibilities of meaning, often clearly yearning in character, but also disturbing (‘I lost my limbs/ while you were sleeping’), and not without humour (‘Keeping my bloomers on for now’). ‘Pinwheel’ applies cut and paste techniques to Shaffer’s materials, in a brief outbreak of experimental folktronica. For me though, the creative highlight is ‘Gnarled’, where a simple, austere, unaccompanied vocal arrangement is shot through with astringent harmonies that remind me of the arresting opening to Rose Kemp’s Golden Shroud (although it’s a lot less mental, unsurprisingly). This is a lovely, thought-provoking set of recordings.”
-Oliver Arditi (www.oliverartditi.com)


"Ms Shaffer is based in Brooklyn/USA and records with mandolins and violins along with nice harmonies. It is the perfect music for rainy days in autumn! If you're listening to her music, you will not think that she is from the USA. The sound is in the tradition of Scandinavian singers and songwriters! Lean back and enjoy!" 
-KALTBLUT Magazine (http://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/)

"Om jag hade fört någon slags geografisk statistik över hamnarna vi besökt är jag ganska säker på att Brooklyn skulle hamna i topp. Den här gången åker vi med på en vegetationstät och akustisk resa, där vindarna från mandolinen och violinen styr farten."
-Skogsgospel (http://skogsgospel.blogspot.com/)

As SoundClouder of the Day, 10/7/11 !!! :
http://www.facebook.com/soundcloud/posts/202913026447241
https://twitter.com/soundcloud/status/122402383560056835
http://soundcloud.tumblr.com/post/11149579423/scotd-jessie-shaffer

Framed

Jessie Shaffer

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