Grandmother's Tea Leaves

by Emily Bezar

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1.	Hypertrophia 01:56	download
2.	Avalanche 05:06	download
3.	I Really Don't 04:42	download
4.	Grandmother's Tea Leaves 04:47	download
5.	La Place Dauphine 06:04	download
6.	Just Like Orestes 11:40	download
7.	I Tear Down 06:22	download
8.	Barricade 04:52	download
9.	Rest Me Here 06:05	download
10.	Madame's Reverie 11:42	download

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Emily Bezar's debut album is a lush, expansive study of musical lyricism and the power of intuition. Drawing on her background in classical singing, electronic music and jazz-tinged piano, she creates songs that might better be described as monodramas and concert arias. This album was Bezar's unrestrained response to years of academic music study and the astringent esthetic of much post-WWII classical composition.

She reveals herself here as a maximalist, unafraid to project wildly avant-garde passages and almost hyper-romantic gestures onto an undercurrent of graceful elegance. Critically acclaimed as a totally unique work, it earned her favorable comparisons to Kate Bush and Laurie Anderson.

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released 01 September 1993
Written and Produced by Emily Bezar
all music ©1993, Blue Countess Music, BMI

Emily Bezar: voice, piano, synthesizers and sound design
Michael Ross: guitar samples on Tracks 1 and 9
The Arlekin String Quartet on Track 4:
Eugene Chukhlov: first violin
Dmitri Glovko: second violin
Rem Djemilev: viola
Sergei Riabtchenko: 'cello

Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 Recorded and Mixed by Bob Hodas at Studio D, Sausalito
Track 6, recorded and mixed by Peter Steinbach and Emily Bezar at Earwax Productions, San Francisco
Tracks 1, 9, 10 recorded and mixed by Emily Bezar at CCRMA studios, Stanford University, Palo Alto
Assistant Engineers: David Farrow, Jay Kadis, Jim Watts Vereecke

Mastered by Paul Stubblebine at the Rocket Lab, San Francisco

Photography: Lorene Warwick
Design: E & E Bezar

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Singer/composer Emily Bezar creates intricate, uncategorizable music, drawing freely from classical, jazz, rock, pop and electronic genres to create an enchanting, dynamic sound world.