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"SECRET BLOOD" out now !!!

Secret Blood (November 2010)
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Honeybee Girls (2009)
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Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright (2004)
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Over The Sun (2004)
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Dyed In The Wool (2001)
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Perishable Goods (2000)
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Maps of Tacit (2000)
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Flightsafety (1999)
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Genre: Alternative / Folk / Rock
Location ATLANTA, Georgia, US
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Last Login: 2/28/2012
Member Since 3/13/2007
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Record Label Vicious Circle / Quaterstick
Type of Label Indie
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Shannon Wright, always loyal and steady with her fans, releases Secret Blood, just one year after the noteworthy Honeybee Girls. In ten years, this shy and emotional american woman became as known as the more famous indie rock artists and she can’t be ignored by the specialized press which stopped to compare her to PJ Harvey and Björk. Her strong character, her refusal of everything’s fashioned, her integrity always made her run away from the cliché. She have had a perfect progression since her first album Flight Safety, released in 1999. But she still develops her discography, keeping a coherence. After four first albums, Shannon Wright decided to stop exploring her rage and anguish to care about the real life, which brought a bit of light she leaves filter through Let in the Light. We can enjoy on it Shannon playing a lively piano, as best as Yann Tiersen’s, her friend and partner since they met in 2004 for the recording of a melodious shared album. In 2009, with Honeybee Girls, Shannon Wright faces up to her taboos : acoustics and electronics. Piano, organ, guitars, violoncello with indistinct tones allow to feel freedom and freshness. Thanks to her fans and the pleasure she can feel on stage, she follows nearly immediately on Secret Blood with her loyal partners, Andy Baker (bass, sound recording and mix) and Brant Rackley (drums). The title is extracted from one of the most beautiful songs of the album “Merciful Secret blood of a Noble Man”: the one she opens up the most. A voice more self-confident, the specific tone of the organ, soft rhythmics are not the only ones to give this feeling of quenching and diffuse warmth. Secret Blood is a promise of freedom, the most important thing in her career. She does not pay any attention to people who label her. This ninth album is the perfect illustration of her freedom, alternating short songs, folk, noise, lullabies for adults. There is a reason for the presence of a Black Flag record on the cover. Shannon Wright has always claimed this legacy to a rock without compromise, at least by her tone, perfectly exact and sometimes rough. By the songs too : “Fractured” allows to rediscover Washington Hardcore, “Commoner’s Saint” and its strong guitars, or the hypnotic “Violent Colors”. But Shannon Wright makes you feel a hypersensitivity as well, with “On The Riverside”, “Dim Reader” or “Satellites”. We can feel other prooves of youthful energy all through Secret Blood ; whereas the delicate arrangements of “Under the Luminaries” are emblematic of the total control of a complicated artist of great integrity. DISCOGRAPHY : Secret Blood (2010) Honeybee Girls (2009) Let In The Light (2007) Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright (2004) Over The Sun (2004) Dyed In The Wool (2001) Perishable Goods (2000) Maps Of Tacit (2000) Flight Safety (1999)
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.. In 1999 Shannon Wright thoroughgoing and an enthusiast artist, like few are, was born after disbanding from her first band Crowsdell. She then shaped her own insular world with her "do-it-yourself punk aesthetic" revealing a lone penchant for songwriting. Flight Safety (1999), Map of Tacits (2000), Dyed in the Wool (2002) and Over the Sun (2004) each explore different layers of uncompromising songs. From dark violent sounds to soft intimate pop melodies, these are challenging and unconventional surroundings, supported with a spare production, twice signed Steve Albini.

She (re)discovered the friendliness around artistic exchange in France, thanks to another exceptional musician: Yann Tiersen (Composed soundtrack to Amelie). Despite their shyness those two got to know each other in order to record an album which managed to abolish the boundaries between their two worlds. When Shannon touched the piano – she had no reason to feel timid with Yann Tiersen – it flourished and suggested still unexplored abilities.

Shannon Wright's earnest singularity and adept capacity for writing beautiful songs comes into palpable sight on Honeybee Girls. With her long-standing friend Andy Baker (bass player and sound engineer) and with Brant Rackley (drummer in Japancakes) Shannon Wright stirs again her richness in composition and a voice that's reached a radiant ampleness. The lavish sounds and distant pianos on "Honeybee Girls" and "Father" are unlike and incomparable to her previous recordings. Wright's unique percussive guitar playing affirms its individualism on "Tall Countryside" and "Embers in your eyes". The piano, the organ, the guitar and the voice are wreathed with a unique spirit accompanied with vague sounds providing an impression of space completely new in her discography.

Honeybee Girls is undoubtedly a red-letter in Shannon Wright's career. She conveys a distinct forte for immediate melodies with unparalled generosity and sensibility through new means.

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