Jentastic!, Let´s talk about "Warm Robot". Options

[hummingbird]

I stumbled on this nice little piece.
http://www.adequacy.net/2010/04/debut-albu...andy-partridge/

Debut album from Jen Olive with Andy Partridge
April 12, 2010 by Jen Stratosphere Fanzine
Category: News
Jen Olive is the latest in that select group of handpicked artists signed to Andy Partridge’s Ape House record label. Jen Olive, described by Andy as ‘’this astounding allegro algorithm from Albuquerque”, has conjured up an album that’s as singular in style as in its manner of recording, a collaboration between Jen and Andy from across the world. The result, Jen Olive’s debut album, Warm Robot, is scheduled for release Spring 2010.
Jen was born in California but “raised everywhere”; her mother was a lounge jazz singer, her father a trombone player. “We probably moved about 35 times before I was 16″, she explains. Having eventually settled in L.A., she then moved to Albuquerque a few years ago to meet her dad’s “crazy jazz” family (her uncle is the lead saxophone player for the Count Basie Orchestra).
Warm Robot is Jen Olive’s first “official” album, despite some low-key, self-released recordings in the past under different names. Jen first hooked up with Andy Partridge back in 2007, sending him an exploratory e-mail after a friend suggested he might be open to ideas. “After hearing the initial songs”, continues Jen, “Andy asked if he could arrange and mix them, as they were a little too raw and unfinished-sounding.” When she sent each new song to Andy, Jen sketched out the album’s intriguing percussion parts using rocks, wine bottles, her kid’s blocks – anything she had to hand. Andy reimagined her basic percussive techniques and then added other effects (such as a choir at the end of “Set It On Fire”), as well as some spooky keyboards here and there.
Jen Olive is a songwriter first – a singer-songwriter in the loose tradition of those classic, only recently rediscovered seventies artists such as Ruth Friedman and Judee Sill, except she’s very much in the here and now. Like Kristin Hersh or Bjork, Jen Olive’s vision is modern and unique.

[TLS]

Well we have listened to it and can only agree with what everyone has said...it is a beautifully layered masterpiece and she deserves to go very far indeed.
All credit to everyone involved! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

[simpleton01]

I can't wait until I get off work! I downloaded "Warm Robot" yesterday (along with TMHB's Dog-eared Moonlight and the two Lighterthief EP's), and I plan to listen to it in its entirety while I walk home. I especially look forward to finding out which song will be playing as I walk through the forest, alongside the rushing stream.

[simpleton01]

A very interesting album - dreamy, intricate, textured and layered. Dense vocal harmonies and arrangements. Christ, it must have taken a long time to record all those vocal parts! My initial faves include Robot Boy, Claustrophobe, Querquehouse and Waffelson's Dream. I suspect it will take a long time to discover all the little gems hiding in these songs. All in all, a superb debut.

[Mr Tein]

All in all, a superb debut.

Her first album was good too

[simpleton01]

Debut album from Jen Olive with Andy Partridge

Warm Robot is Jen Olive’s first “official” album, despite some low-key, self-released recordings in the past under different names.

You better be careful, Teiny, or I'll have hummingbird kick your arse! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Helena again]

I'm having trouble deciding who I like the best... Veda or Jen?

Oh! I don't have to choose?

[Mr Tein]

I'm having trouble deciding who I like the best... Veda or Jen?

There's only one way to find out...

[donavan]

Jentastic !

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This post has been edited by donavan: Mar 11 2012, 10:54 AM