JUANITA STEIN
STREAMING LIVE SHOW FROM BRIGHTON ELECTRIC - 1st NOVEMBER
IN SUPPORT OF #WeMakeEvents
FOR THE LIVE MUSIC INDUSTRY
IN SUPPORT OF #WeMakeEvents
FOR THE LIVE MUSIC INDUSTRY
NEW ALBUM 'SNAPSHOT' OUT ON 23RD OCTOBER VIA NUDE RECORDS
Juanita Stein has confirmed a special, full band, live show from Brighton’s Electric that will stream on demand for 24 hours from Sunday, 1st November. Tickets for the show, available globally, are £8, with £1 from every ticket sold going to the #WeMakeEvents campaign in support of the live music industry.
Stein will play a set including songs from her third solo album, ‘Snapshot’, which is set for release via Nude Records on 23rd October. The Brighton Electric date is a hometown show for Juanita, who first became known for her work as the singer and guitarist in Howling Bells. On how the show came about, Stein says:
“Having played a series of home sessions during the peak of lockdown, I experienced a surprisingly rewarding connection with the audience. It felt like we were all in something together, working it out. I figured an elevated version of this to celebrate the release of my album “Snapshot” would be the way to go. I feel compelled to really honour the full sound of the record and give people something special during this exceptionally bizarre and challenging time. I’ll be playing with a full band and we’ll be filming the performance at our local studio, Brighton Electric, where we’d usually be rehearsing for a string of shows right about now.”
TICKETS for Juanita Stein at Brighton Electric on 1st November are priced at £8 (with £1 from the sale of each ticket going to #WeMakeEvents) and available now from dice.fm. Fans pre-ordering the album from Townsend Music before 22nd October will also receive a viewing code for the show.
Stein says of the #WeMakeEvents campaign: “#WeMakeEvents is working hard to raise funds and get government assistance in order to help the live sector survive this immense crisis. The UK alone employs over 1,000,000 people within the sector, and Every. Single. Person I know working in the industry right now is struggling. So, if i’m able to make the smallest dent in raising awareness via the show, then I’d be truly happy. ”
About the album:
It feels fundamental to understanding the devastation and eerie silence thrust upon us after his sudden death,” begins the Brighton-based, Australian songwriter Juanita Stein, discussing the moment of great sadness that inspired her new record. “It was a daunting task to sum up the life of one man such as my father. He was endlessly inspiring, charming, deeply talented and passionately spiritual. He admirably, and at times frustratingly, carried the torch for his own musical career until the very end.”
It’s within this processing of a life well-lived and attempting to wrestle with the tides of her own grief, that what would become the album began to ebb and flow out of Stein, who first became known for her work as singer and guitarist in Howling Bells.
“After I felt I had enough songs,” Juanita explains, “I was moved to reach out to producer Ben Hillier, who I’d been a fan of since hearing records he made with Clinic, Elbow ad Doves to see if he might be interested in making this album with me.”
Unlike her first two solo albums, “America” (2017) and “Until The Lights Fade” (2018), which were made in just a few weeks and both at studios in the US, ‘Snapshot’ was recorded over the course of eight months at Agricultural Audio, not far from Juanita’s home.
As she says, “This allowed me the time and distance I so craved. Ben was deeply concerned with allowing the songs to breathe and to take the right shape. We laid down all the defining guitar parts and vocals which were then beds for the band to come in and lay their parts on.”
As the record began to take shape, Juanita “called on my brother, Joel Stein, (guitarist in Howling Bells) to play lead guitar, I knew only he could harness the exact frenzied energy needed for the songs. Both he and I were both going through something pretty momentous and I wanted to shift that energy into the music. Evan Jenkins on drums alternated between freeform and thunderous on some tracks, light and barely-there on others. Jimi Wheelwright on bass held it all together beautifully.”
The result is a record that feels crafted from a life lived as much as it was clearly excavated from loss. It’s a record that strives to capture more than a passing moment and succeeds in laying its hands on something bigger than most of us will ever fully understand.
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