Alice Jago
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland | SELF
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Breezy and full of the kind of freshness that renders a radio signal radioactive, Dublin debutante Alice Jago knows a thing or two about life’s minor chords. For starters, Jago has her fair share of neat rhyming couplets and louche-limbed melodies peeping out from under a look that’s gazing decidedly askance at the world. Folk-fuelled arrangements, including banjo and bouzouki, call to mind The Be Good Tanyas on Cotton on Girl , but the wistful guitar lines of the closer, Lullaby , whisper of a kinship with the more left-field musings of Joanna Newsom. Truth is that, despite Jago’s
Lisa Hannigan-esque quirky articulation, she’s a songwriter distinctly in control of her own voice – and it’s one that intimates sweet secrets well worthy of the listener’s cocked ear. A spirit-stirring debut. See alicejago.com *** - IRISH TIMES
ARTIST PRESS ITEMS
"DUBLIN SINGER-SONGWRITER OPENS HER ACCOUNT WITH EXQUISITE DEBUT. ...The sound is bucolic roots rock not a million miles from Neil's Harvest,a breezier Gillian Welch ,a folkier Rickie Lee Jones,a touch of the Dusty on the vocal.And Jago can sell a song in the subtlest and slyest of ways. .. like they were written 200 years ago,and may well be written again 200 years from now.Jago also seems to have an instinct for just the right modulation required to lift a song out of merit into distinction.She does waltzes,she does shuffles,she does winsome and wistful and exasperated and lovelorn,often within the same verse. Beautifully produced ..concieved and nurtured.Sample the exquisite swing of 'New St South',or the tired-and-emotional slowdance of 'Warrior',or the dusky jazz of 'Sea Song',or the Goodnight Moon beauty of 'Lullaby', her finest and most fragile vocal.Alice Jago is a girl you don't hear everyday.4/5
Peter Murphy Key Track 'Born Stubborn'"
- HOTPRESS -IRELAND
Discography
New St South Released April 2010 .Irish Nationwide airplay,RTE RADIO 1 Playlisted for 3 weeks!
Available Itunes ,7 digital
ALICE JAGO -BORN STUBBORN-ALBUM -Released May 2010
Distributed RMG Ireland (Cavallero) ,digital download itunes
irish Radio Airplay on a few tracks. UK and US Airplay
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Debut album out Now
Alice Jago Released her Debut Album 'Born Stubborn' in May 2010 .
...Beautifully produced.. exquisite debut .. a breezier Gillian Welch, a folkier Rickie Lee Jones ,a touch of Dusty on the vocal'..**** Hotpress
Breezy & full of the kind of freshness that renders a radio signal radioactive.She's a songwriter distinctly in control of her own voice and its one that imitates sweet secrets well worthy of the listeners cocked ear.A spirit stiring debut *** Irish Times
...Utterly Beautiful -Pat Kenny Today Show Rte Radio 1
Alice 's first ever release in May of this year ' New St South' single went straight onto the RTE RADIO 1 Playlist ,a firm favorite on nationwide radio including BBC Ulster ,Galway Bay Fm,Newstalk,WLRFM ( Album of the week).This secured at slot with Pat Kenny on his Today show on Radio 1 with Jack Maher beside her ( Sharron Shannon ,Van Morrison) calling her performance as 'Utterly Beautiful' .She also performed on TG4 Imeall show.Phantom Fm Sunday took a shine to her wistful guitar lines of the closer 'Lullaby' her finest & most fragile vocal on the album.4fm likened the folk fueled 'Cotton on Girl' as did BBC Ulster & Shannonside with Charlie Mc Gettigan.The multi award winning film maker Shimmy Marcus created an innovative music video for Alice to accompany the release of 'Born Stubborn',Shimmy described her music a 'Pure Class'.Alice is also the voice the Fruice ad 'Longing', after its initial campaign on SKY TV it received enormous interest & was re aired the following year .
Alice has shared the stage with many musical luminaries, from Damien Dempsey to The Be Good Tanya's,The Walls,Republic of Loose, Miles Hunt ( The Wonderstuff),Mark Geary,Eric Bogle,Bell X1, The 4 of Us,LIR,The Byrd's Roger McGuinn,Jape,The Frames, this list goes on ..this year has already seen her guesting with Paul Heaton ( Beautiful South,Housemartins) & at the Taste Festival along with her own nationwide tour .Alice is no stranger to the live circuit,she has toured with many & played all the venues .In 2004 she was invited to perform at the infamous Blue Balls Festival in Luzerne Switzerland which saw her play alongside the likes of Callexico & Elvis Costello.
ALICE JAGO BIOGRAPHY
Brought up in a house where Elvis was king and Johnny Cash ruled, a childhood listening to a selection of her music-loving father,s favorites,Americana Roots n' Blues to Country- Folk and Soul classics .She fed her love for musical instruments playing everything from drums to trumpet and French horn in the local marching band.
Alice Jago set off firstly to a lakeside log cabin in Virginia, County Cavan and then on to a house in Hollywood, County Wicklow to record the album. The log cabin was chosen to encapsulate a warm full sound and to record it more as a live band session.Born Stubborn features a host of Irish musical talents. Binzer Brennan appears on drums, Karl Odlum on bass, backing vocals, electric guitar, percussion and bouzouki, Paul Moore on Double Bass (he has played with Riverdance, Mark Knopfler and Paul Brady and former Music Director with Van Morrison), Jack Maher on slide guitar, banjo and backing vocals, Cormac Curran ( Villagers) on keys and piano, Bill Blackmore on trumpets, flugel horn and French horn, Michelle Mason on cello and Maria Mason (NSO) on violin.The Album was mastered by Tim Martin who has worked with the likes of Andy Irvine ,Paul Brady ,Christy Moore & Sharron Shannon .
The overall theme of the album juxtaposes hope and melancholy.Hope waits with resilience on the sidelines. Hope is stubborn.
'Her crooked, still vocals wrap themselves around ' Born Stubborn' , stretching syllables in unlikely places, and hinting at a talent emerging from its chrysalis with a healthy impatience'-Irish Times
'Neat rhyming couplets and louche-limbed melodies peeping out from under a look that,s gazing decidedly askance at the world. Folk-fuelled arrangements, including banjo and bouzouki,but the wistful guitar lines whisper of a kinship with the more left-field musings of Joanna Newsom- Irish Times
'The title tune is a slow sway with transcendental middle-eight, 'Cotton On Girl' a self-administered slap across the chops stitched with banjo,handclaps and communal choruses.Both feel like they were written 200 years ago,and may well be written again 200 years from now.Jago also seems to have an instinct for just the right modulation required to lift a song out of merit into distinction.She does waltzes,she does shuffles,she does winsome and wistful and exasperated and lovelorn,often within the same verse..Alice Jago is a girl you don't hear everyday.'-Hotpress.
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