[TR24][OF] Jesca Hoop (ft Fiona Apple, Blake Mills) - Memories Are Now - 2017 (indie, folk, singer-songwriter, alternative)

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Джеска ХупДжессика «Джеска» Ада Хуп (англ. Jessica «Jesca» Ada Hoop, род. 21 апреля 1975, Санта-Роза, Калифорния) — американская певица и гитаристка, а также автор песен.
Детство
Хуп родилась в Санта-Розе, Калифорния. Родители — Джанетт и Джек Деннис Хуп. Джессика научилась петь традиционные народные мелодии в четырёх частях гармонии, она гармонировала вместе со своей музыкальной семьёй. Джессика начала петь в Санта-Розе в сводном хоре, прежде чем она с родителями переехали в поселение на севере Калифорнии, Вайоминге и высоких горах Аризоны, где Хуп также работала в реабилитационной программе для детей. Она начала писать особенные песни в возрасте 14 лет, чтобы отвлечься во время долгого пути в школу. В 16 лет Хуп оторвалась от строгого воспитания и начала, как она говорила, "жить как енот", что означало выйти из клетки и быть ближе к природе. Бродя по высокогорным пустыням на Юго-Западе и вдоль береговой линии на Северо-Западе, она работала в качестве гида по выживанию в пустыне и обрела такие навыки, как сельское хозяйство, геодезия и плотничное дело. Она писала песни повсюду, начиная от глубоких речных каньонов и заканчивая походными кострами.
Карьера
В 2004 году её охватило желание поделиться этими песнями в более широком масштабе. Она поселилась в Лос-Анджелесе, где оттачивала ремесло автора песен и заработала репутацию уникального и по-настоящему живого исполнителя, который пишет о реальных вещах. Хуп начала писать музыку и работала няней для детей Тома Уэйтса и его жены Кэтлин Бреннан. Общение Джессики с Томом привело к её первому выступлению через Ника Харкорта в Южной Калифорнии радиостанции KCRW в 2003 году, с шести-минутным демо, записанным на четыре рекордера. Том Уэйтс сказал так: «Её музыка походит на купание в озере ночью». В The Los Angeles Times Хуп считается одной из десяти певцов Южной Калифорнии, которые являются «новыми и заметными в 2007 году.» Хуп затем подписала контракт с Columbia Records, добавила 3 дополнительных трека и выпустила свой дебютный альбом Kismet в сентябре 2007 года в США, но после революции в Колумбии, её песни перестали транслировать по радио 3 месяца спустя.
С тех пор Хоуп выступает на сцене многими актами. В 2007 она гастролировала с Polyphonic Spree и Мэтт Понд PA. В 2008 году- с Elbow и Марком Нопфлер, а затем в 2009 году с Грегом Лейсвилл, Elbow и Эндрю Берд. Джеска в основном гастролировала по Великобритании и Ирландии в феврале 2010 года, и Франции в марте 2010 года. Она также организовала её собственный тур по Великобритании летом 2010 года, начиная с Лидс 1 мая.
Хуп объявила в сентябре 2008 года, что она будет выпускать альбом под названием «Kismet Acoustic» в октябре 2008 года, показывая одну новую песню и четыре акустические версии композиций из её дебютного компакт-диска. Альбом был выпущен в Великобритании и Европе через её собственный лейбл «Last Laugh».
В июле 2009 года Хуп объявила, что она закончила запись своего второго альбома под названием "Hunting My Dress", после переезда в Манчестер, Англия, по предложению Гая Гарви тремя месяцами ранее. В сентябре, она отправила первый трек на запись в интернете и 30 ноября 2009 года запись стала доступна в Великобритании и Ирландии, в США вышла в июле 2010 года на Vanguard Records. По мнению критиков, "Hunting My Dress" является новым рекордом, который отображает яркую двойственность: свет и тьма, голова и сердце, она сочетает жуткое и висцеральное с обезоруживающе-откровенной близости. Полученная комбинация вызывает мощные воспоминания, с комплексными темами по биологии, природы и человека - эти наблюдения Хоуп сформировали её характер, состоящий в равной степени из красоты и насилия, что, для неё, очевидно, кровь на зубах и когтях.
В июне 2010 года она написала песню "Angel Mom" для Enough Project. Поступившие деньги от песни она направила на защиту и расширение прав и возможностей женщин Конго, а также вдохновить людей во всем мире поднять свой голос за мир в Конго.
Хуп гастролировала с Eels во время их тура по США осенью 2010 и в июле 2011 гастролировала по Великобритании. Кроме того, в конце 2011 года она гастролировала с Питером Габриэлем качестве бэк-вокалистки. В 2011 году она объявила о том, что скоро выйдет её новый альбом «The House That Jack Built». Альбом был выпущен в США через Bella Union. 21 января 2013 года вышел завершённый альбом «The Complete Kismet Acoustic» через PledgeMusic.
Джеска Хуп побывала во всем мире, и её богатый жизненный опыт находит отражение в её отличительном голосе и даре изобретательного создания песен.
Количество поклонников Джески из высших мест все растёт: Том Уэйтс описал "как четырёхстороннюю монету. Она старая душа, как чёрный жемчуг, хорошая ведьма или красная луна". Питер Гэбриэл взял её с собой в Южную Америку, чтобы она спела вместе с ним, она также играла с Eels, Эндрю Берд, Punch Brothers и Elbow. Гай Гарви из Elbow's даже пригласил её быть ведущей на радиошоу BBC в начале 2012 года.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Хуп,_Джеска

Jesca HoopJessica "Jesca" Ada Hoop (born April 21, 1975 in Santa Rosa, California) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, who writes and performs in diverse musical styles. She has released five studio albums of her own, as well as live, acoustic and dual albums with others.
Early life
Hoop was born in Santa Rosa, California to traditional Mormon parents Janette and Jack Dennis Hoop, and grew up singing hymns and folk tunes with her family in four part harmony. At age 14, her parents separated and two years later she broke away from her Mormon religion. Hoop described losing her faith as, "Now I feel free of it: I have faith in people". Hoop moved off the grid into the rural and wilderness areas of Northern California and Wyoming where she, "lived under a tree for a summer, in yurts, in cob dwellings, and in a chicken shack that I converted". At the age of 20 she was employed as a wilderness survival guide in a rehabilitation program for wayward teens in Arizona. This course involved, "no camp, we would just walk, for two months. They would learn how to make fire by friction, and the experience was life changing. The environment was transforming".
Career (2003–2007)
While she had been creating music since she was a teenager, being a survival guide provided Hoop with the "mental space to write as I worked". By 2000, Hoop had moved to Los Angeles where she became a nanny to Tom Waits' children. He and his wife Kathleen Brennan became instrumental in developing her career and brought her in contact with his music publisher Lionel Conway. His company gave her a publishing contract and "an advance, something to live off, and helped to develop". Conway sent a demo of the song "Seed of Wonder” to the DJ Nic Harcourt who began to play the song on Morning Becomes Eclectic on KCRW. It became one of the most requested songs on the show and created a considerable amount interest in the acoustic live shows Hoop had begun to play around Los Angeles. She then signed to Columbia Records’ subsidiary "3 Records" and developed her first record with Tony Berg, producer and head of 3 Records. Her debut album Kismet was released in September 2007 in the US. Following a reshuffle at Columbia, Hoop was dropped 3 months into the release.
2008–present
As a result of meeting Tom Piper, the touring manager of the band Elbow, Hoop moved to Manchester, England in 2008.[7] Initially she found it difficult to adjust "as a California girl, I find it hard to stay under that canopy of cloud".[3] After settling in the Chorlton area of the city, Hoop spent 18 months recording new material for the album Hunting My Dress which was released in 2010. She had parked "a lorry trailer in my back garden that we use as an extension (...) where I go to write".[4] In the same year she signed with the US-based label Vanguard Records.[8] It was followed by the Snowglobe EP in 2011, which consisted of a handful of tracks recorded prior to her move to the UK. Hoop described them as "folk songs"[3] and the EP received a degree of critical acclaim.[9][10] She worked as a backing singer on Peter Gabriel's New Blood Tour in 2011.[11] The following year she released The House That Jack Built. In 2013 and 2014 she released Complete Kismet Acoustic and Undress, re-interpretations of songs from "Kismet" and "Hunting My Dress" respectively. In 2016, Hoop released Love Letter for Fire, an album of duets with American singer-songwriter Sam Beam (Iron & Wine). Jesca Hoop signed with the label Sub Pop and announced that she would release the album Memories Are Now on February 10, 2017.[12][13][14]
Collaborations
Hoop has collaborated with many recording artists, including Stewart Copeland, Guy Garvey, Iron & Wine, Willy Mason, Blake Mills, Shearwater, Erika Wennerstrom, The Ditty Bops and many more. Hoop's extensive touring since her debut record saw her opening for Mark Knopfler, Elbow, Placebo, EELS,[15] Shuggie Otis, Iron & Wine, Andrew Bird, Punch Brothers, Shearwater and The Ditty Bops.
On April 15, 2016, Hoop released Love Letter for Fire, an album of duets with American singer-songwriter Iron & Wine, on Sub Pop. The album features contributions from Wilco's Glenn Kotche, Rob Burger, Eyvind Kang, Sebastian Steinberg, and Edward Rankin-Parker. It was produced, recorded, and mixed by Tucker Martine. Hoop and Iron & Wine toured North America in support of the album, starting in May 2016.[16]
Style
Hoop's style has been characterised as largely experimental with folk, rock, and electronic influences. Her early mentor, Tom Waits, described it as, "like a four-sided coin. She is an old soul, like a black pearl, a good witch or a red moon. Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night".[17]
She often finds that, "I have an identity crisis every time I write a catalogue of songs, I think: what is this music? Where does it fit?".[3] She explained her tendency to move between a number of styles as, "I am impressed by the power of music and its ability to transform the vessel it enters. I am everyday affected by it. If I want to change my mood, I change my music".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesca_Hoop

Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
Clear the way, I'm coming through, no matter what you say. I've got work to be doing, if you're not here to help, go find some other life to ruin.
Jesca Hoop’s new album Memories Are Now, out February 10 on Sub Pop Records, wastes no time in making clear its confidence, confrontation, and craftsmanship. The stark and reverberant title track opens the set with “a fighting spirit,” says Hoop, serving as an anthem to push through any obstacle and put forth your very best work. And she has unequivocally done that here, with an album of stunningly original songs--minimalist yet brimming with energy, emerging from a wealth of life experience, great emotional depth, and years of honing the craft of singing.
As riveting as it is reflective, the album, produced by Blake Mills (Fiona Apple, Alabama Shakes,John Legend, Laura Marling), is a fresh debut of sorts for Hoop, as the first of her solo records made outside of Tony Berg’s Zeitgeist Studios where she and Mills both cut their teeth in the art of record making under the guidance and support of Tony Berg. Says Hoop, “Blake is so utterly musical and emotionally intelligent in his expression. His guitar voice is a large part of what creates the sound of my first three records. This time I wanted to see what we could do, just he and I out from under Tony’s wing and in a totally different setting.” Mills pushed her to strip away layers, keeping it as close to the live experience as possible, using whole live takes and working very quickly. “It's still covered in embryonic fluid, for lack of a better way to put it,” says Hoop.
However fast the work, Memories Are Now covers a great deal of ground, showcasing every edge and curve of Hoop’s captivating voice, with sounds and themes ranging from the mythic to the deeply intimate.
“Songs of Old” and “The Coming,” songs she sees as “twins” on the album, confront the religion that weighs heavily on her past and the world.
“'Songs of Old' imagines a girl who learns that the ornate, majestic splendor of her temple came at the cost of beautiful and scared cultures from across the sea, the demolishing of their gods, rituals and myths, and the total oppression of those people,” says Hoop. “Religion is one of those things that wells up, and takes over, and shows itself in dangerous ways when it's out of balance. Show me a time when it wasn’t out of balance.”
Moving from the dark side of religion to the imagination of myth, “Pegasi” explores “the idea of carrying something to the point of breaking,” says Hoop, drawing on the story of Pegasus and its accomplished rider who takes it for granted. “I fear you'll see the day that I've endured all I can take,” she sings to a gliding, wistful melody. “I won't bend, but I will break under the weight.”
And from relatable allegory to intensely personal meditation, “The Lost Sky” is a dynamic, anxious song that “gives you a voice when you don’t have a say,” says Hoop. “I have a dear friend who was in a horrific accident that left him in a coma for two weeks. We thought we had lost him. He woke up to find himself silently divorced. This was a heartbreak for all related, and I wrote this while we were waiting for him to wake up. His experience drove me to explore my own relationship with abandonment. I think the cruel nature of life and love is something we all can relate to one way or the next. When you don't have any say in how a relationship plays out, when you're cut off, there's a relentless loop that plays again and again in your own mind of those words that you would say... if love was fair enough to let you speak it. This song gives you that chance.”
The defiance that permeates Memories Are Now is both a product and necessity of a career that has been independently driven and self-funded from the beginning. “All of my successes have been won by the bootstraps, on the grassroots level, with handshakes and hugs from great people who believe in me,” says Hoop, more than a decade into her career and with new paths to forge. As she sings in the title track, “I've lived enough life, I've earned my stripes. That’s my knife in the ground, this is mine.”
https://jescahoop.bandcamp.com/album/memories-are-now

Guitar, Vocals – Jesca Hoop
Bass, Drums, Guitar, Backing Vocals – Blake Mills
Harmonica [Wee But Mighty Harmonica] – Fiona Apple (5)
Strings – Rob Moose (6)
Pedal Steel Guitar – Greg Leisz (7)
Producer – Blake Mills