Louise Le May (Mini-Album) - Louise Le May

Folkwit (f0039)

£6.99(GBP) + P&P

Track list:

be my guru
photographic
the only fish
coal-marble-stone
war with love
  the only fish (instrumental)
  be my guru (instrumental)

Press:

"Time was, long ago, that I thought there could never be enough sensitive, breathy-voiced female singer-songwriters. Old and jaded as I am now, though, the merest glimpse of a moody black and white cover sends me spiralling into a state of ennui that takes a couple of double live Grobschnitt albums to dispel. And then along comes Louise Le May to dispel the decades of accrued cynicism. 

This is quite simply exquisite; sensual and beguiling in the manner – though not style – of Kate Bush, with that kind of Englishness that draws you in like a rose-scented breath. Never slipping into fey quirkiness, even with the fluttering sonic trickery that opens the majestic ‘War With Love’, all the tracks possess a quietly fierce individuality. Maybe ‘individuality’ isn’t quite the word, though, as arranger and multi-instrumentalist Louis Philippe does a magnificent job, with layered vocals and glacial piano to the fore and other instruments – guitar, bass, string quartet – adding texture as necessary." ****

- Oz Hardwick, Rock'n'Reel

"Exquisite...such a refreshingly original sound"

- Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

"A triumph. The arrangements are top-flight"

- Van Dyke Parks, Composer/Arranger

"I have been playing Louise's absolutely beautiful and haunting songs incessantly. The arrangements are magnificent "

- Jonathan Coe, author of What A Carve-Up! and The Rotters Club

"Not since the debut of Carly Simon have I heard a "girl" with such artistic depth and ability to write a tense series of tonal angles, all packaged quite perfectly in a neat 4 minute song-format"

- Eric Matthews

"The richness of the vocal, the depth of the instrumentation, always finding new things to reveal. It's just such a natural feeling album. Part dream, part cathartic, wholly inspirational songs."

- Neil King, FATEA

"This is English music, honest and open. Louise’s songs are strange without being quirky and delivered with a settled assurance. She has the steady delivery of Judee Sill, but the harmonic flavour of Kate Bush or Robert Wyatt."

- Sean O'Hagan, The High Llamas

"Absolutely wonderful. What a haunting voice and an equally haunting songwriter. It's brilliant stuff, especially Be My Guru."

- Fredo Viola

Videos:

Be My Guru

 

Radium Smile (Demo)