Folk Radio UK has an exclusive video première of Lisa Papineu’s ‘Rainmaker’ which features on her third and newest solo record ‘Blood Noise’. The first thing that enters your consciousness when hearing Rainmaker is Lisa’s striking voice which Tori Amos once declared to have “…the power of Bon Scott and yet the lyricalness in the voice of a reed instrument…”
With complications from her long time bout with MS, Papineau recorded parts of the album from bed, microphones and keyboards propped up and strewn across pillows. Recovering from cancer surgery in 2012, she put work on the album aside for a time, but with the new year, returned by degrees to lean deeper into synchronized themes of transformation, escape, or as she more eloquently states, “…Allowing the rain and the tears to break fast after a thousand of years of drought… letting the soul crack out of this broken jam jar.”
Lisa Papineau is an exceptional artist and ‘Blood Noise’ is by far her most expansive work to date, each listen offers another new angle of interpretation and sonic fulfilment.
European Dates:
20 Nov – Le Ciel – Grenoble, FRA
23 Nov – 40 Years Tanztheater Pina Bausch Festival – Wuppertal, GER (w/ Jun Miyake)
28 Nov – Orf Radiokulturhaus – Vienna, AUS (w/ Jun Miyake)
29 Nov – Ex Asilo Patria e Lavoro, ITA
01 Dec – Clandestino – Faenza, ITA
04 Dec – New Raindogs – Savona, ITA
05 Dec – Carmen Town, Brescia, ITA