Modern Eclectic

Vera Sola

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DJ ChopStuey - April 2019 - The Gooseberry Fool

Second song from @PorridgeRadio's upcoming album Rice, Pasta and Other Fillers.

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Rice, Pasta and Other Fillers

Porridge Radio - Danish Pastry Lyrics (Rice, Pasta and Other Fillers)

The Gold

The Gold (Nick Waterhouse Remix)

Megative

Beneath The Sun

Another Friday Night / Hot Heavy Summer / Sister

Hot Heavy Summer (feat. Sylvan Esso)

Among many other things, Vera Sola is a poet, composer, Harvard literature scholar, and – of course – a songwriter. Although she’d written her own material over the years, it wasn’t until last year that she shared her music with another living soul. After serving as a touring member with Elvis Perkins’ band, Sola holed herself up in Native Sound Studio in St. Louis to record her songs for the first time ever, resulting in her debut album Shades, which she’ll self-release on Nov. 9. In the spirit of found object art, Sola used everything from bones to glass and filing cabinets to flesh out the folk arrangements she was creating.

The original version of the album’s single “The Colony” features Sola crooning with a vicious vibrato over brooding instrumentation that feels like it could’ve come from a long-lost spaghetti western classic. Sola was inspired to write the song after witnessing the native water protectors at Standing Rock, singing from the perspective of colonizers venturing to what’s now known as North America and claiming, defiling the land. The clatter of the rhythms and Sola’s merciless perspective of white colonialism is powerful in itself, but now the song has found itself diving even deeper into darkness.

Zola Jesus’ take on “The Colony” embraces the sinister edge stewing in Sola’s original song, unearthing swells of distorted bass drums and turning Sola’s voice into a ghostly haze. The pulse of the rhythms rattles viciously, shaking wildly alongside Sola herself. It creates a tension that’s drawn out throughout the entirety of the song, finally opening up to a clamor of beats erupting near the end. It’s hard to think of an artist more adept at breaking apart Sola’s already stirring work – performing a musical biopsy that stays true to the original’s core while and opening up new aural paths to the spirit of Sola’s work.
- Dusty Henry, KEXP

Vera Sola - the Colony (Zola Jesus Remix)

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Lyrics
Covered in dust
The wings of my porcelain dove
They don’t trouble the waters my love
Frozen in time

Fragile to touch
She melts like the words on my tongue
The goddess of heavenly love
Fades outta sight

All your stars are in view
I get lost loving you

Dark was the night
Her shape burned a void in my eyes
It was black but so violently bright
Like the birth of a sun

So i cried out
But my voice could not be heard aloud 
For held here safe in my mouth
The bird was done
All your stars are in view
I get lost loving you

The Bird

Doko Mien

She Work Very Hard

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After 2017’s Hard Love failed to live up to the lofty expectations of his breakthrough album Heal, Timothy Showalter the songwriter behind Strand Of Oaks was worn down and depressed. 

 According to a note to fans announcing his new album Eraserland he was ready to retire from music until unbeknownst to him friend Carl Broemel booked recording sessions with three of his bandmates from My Morning Jacket along with producer Kevin Ratterman and challenged Showalter to write enough songs to fill them. The show of support helped him shake off his blues and emerge creatively refreshed.  (“Weird Ways”)

In addition to 4/5s of My Morning Jacket a few other friends stopped by for the sessions at Louisville’s La La Land studio, including Americana superstar Jason Isbell who lends his guitar to several tracks on the album including some understated sunny day riffing on “Ruby”. 

Musically the band digs into the lush vaguely roots-flavored grooves they’ve independently mined over the past decade plus, but as Showalter has shown in the past he’s not afraid to mix in unexpected flavors such as the glorious Clash meets Drive-By Truckers vamp “Moon Landing” which should be a trainwreck but somehow works.  

With a little help from friends Timothy Showalter got his groove back. Good thing for all of us. Strand of Oaks’ Eraserland is Worth Its Weight.

Worth Its Weight - Strand of Oaks Eraserland (album review)

Written, Arranged and Performed by Vera Sola
Recorded by David Beeman at Native Sound Recording, Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO.
Additional Recording at Native Sound by Will Godfred.
Additional Recording by Kenny Siegal at Old Soul Studios in Catskill, NY.
Mixed by Ben Majchrzak, David Beeman, & Vera Sola at Native Sound Recording, Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO.
Mastered by Heba Kadry, Timeless Mastering Brooklyn NY

Loving, Loving

Circles

Small Minds

The Colony

Virgils Flowers

Don't Ask Me Twice

Porridge Radio - Don't Ask Me Twice

Things I Remember from Earth

Montreal

Rain On Dust

Ballad Of A Thin Place

I don't know what to do with this remix of Bibio - Curls since it's not official but i love the tune a lot. anyways. here it is

Curls (Ookay Bootleg Flip)

Hover

Expanding

Hermann : Drum, rythmic guitar
Pierre : Vocals, Bass
Marc : Guitar solo, Hammond, piano

The Duffler (Fantastic Negrito Cover)

First Prize Bravery

Tourism EP available now on Color Study: ffm.to/tourism



I was trying to find someone to love me
and then I did and she was dancing
across the room with the lights on her half-closed eyes

So then I took another drink and stumbled
across to her and said something ridiculous
like a man who’d refuse to shine

See I was looking for a still life
now it is stillborn
in the endless glow, on a river of road
I drove out of the eye of the storm

I was trying to write a song so articulate
it could right my wrongs but I wrote it wrong
this is not it, it’s just a field day for a therapist
“and what did you dream?”
that I wrote a song
“and what did it mean?”
that I got it wrong, I don’t know
I don’t know

See I was looking for a still life
now it is stillborn
in the endless glow, on a river of road
I drove out of the eye of the storm

Did I know it then? Did I cry out then?
by the blooming tree in Switzerland?
No I never really know
No I never really know
what I can do about it
If I lie down on the dirty ground
would the angels sing?

still life
now it is stillborn
in the endless glow, on a river of road
I drove out of the eye of the storm

Still Life (feat. Joseph)

I Know I'm Funny haha

In A Good Way

Vera Sola is a poet, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist.

Her newest single "The Line" is out now along with the announcement of her sophomore album 'Peacemaker' set for release on 2/2/24 on City Slang.

Check website for tour dates.