Light Sweet Crude: Act One [Hybrid], by Vanessa Daou

Light Sweet Crude: Act One [Hybrid]

by Vanessa Daou

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Kolina Lind Light Sweet Crude is dark & sultry with infectious melodies. I love the arrangement on the song “Dream”, it’s ethereal acid jazz. She has such a mesmerizing voice whether singing or reciting poetry. It’s simple just get all of her albums! - (I sure hope she makes an Act Two.) Favorite track: Dream.

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Vanessa Daou’s seventh studio album finds the singer in higher spirits following the contemplative, lugubrious jazz of 2008’s ‘Joe Sent Me’. With ‘Light Sweet Crude: Act One [Hybrid]’, the sultry poetic chanteuse delivers a thrilling musical hybrid echoing a wide range of influences from sumptuous electronica, sophisticated jazz-pop noir, romantic dream pop and lush downtempo to leftfield experimental electronic, future soul, reggae/dub and simmering dance grooves.

The result is a stirring collection of understated, yet, confident, melodic songs draped in poetic symbolism and metaphors with evocative narratives that are sensual, playful, hedonistic, cautionary, political, philosophical and metaphysical.

According to Daou, the focus of ‘Light Sweet Crude’ is the correlation between sound, text and image, and the many and the many ways language can be contextualized, explored, layered, presented, subverted and delivered.

She explains: “the springboard for the conceptual framework of the album was an article I read in the New York Times in 2009 which speculated on the origin of flowers. The original working title for the album was ‘The First Flower’. Throughout the album, I use the manifold layers of reference for the idea of ‘flower’, in part, as a metaphor for the loss of information as a consequence of passing of time, human interference, the search for identity, the loss of innocence.

I’ve been long-fascinated with the history of words, and explore their origins as the subtext for many of the songs. The ultimate symbol of a substance intrinsically steeped in our collective history is crude oil, a substance which is both a symbol of the layering of time as well as man’s corruption of its essential chemistry through a process of ‘refinement’. The term ‘Light Sweet Crude’ is an example of the power of language to fire the imagination, index time, convey nuance, dimension, hybridity, and complexity, putting emphasis on the fact that the role of Art is to capture the essence as well as the substance, the singularity of experience, to tell that part of the story that History leaves out.

‘Light Sweet Crude’ is an exploration of all aspects of recording my experience, in forms that are aural, virtual, physical, metaphorical and textual: expressed through note-taking, sketches, Javascript, HTML and various computer codes: a distillation of my research and experience into the many ways the physical world is becoming less about our connection with nature and more about how we’re linked through technology.

As our lives become more virtual, the traditional tools of the artist are put on trial; does the physical object still matter? A newspaper? A book? Does the writer still feel the need to put pen to paper? Are we losing touch with our raw, tactile selves, or are we experiencing the dawn of a new paradigm of not only deep linking through technology, but deep thinking through the cross-pollination of hybrid experiences?”

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released December 3, 2013

Mastering: Mike Degen | Stimulant Sound

Photos by Olivia Divecchia
Layout and design by Vanessa Daou and Sam Taylor for Sam Taylor Creative

Executive Producers: Vanessa Daou and Craig Roseberry for KID Recordings, LLC

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Vanessa Daou is an American singer, songwriter, poet, visual artist and dancer. Most notably a musician, her work is known among electronica, nu jazz and trip hop circles for her trademark spoken word and aspirated singing style as well as its erotic and literary subtexts.

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