Jennifer Evans :: After Berlin
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:: Jennifer Evans fan club is set to gather many new members in the coming months. Her Salient Points EP is released at the end of March 2010 and there will be a bunch of dates to coincide with it (hopefullyArbutus will get to film one). And you won’t be alone in cheering Evans’s soulful, ethreal noir-folk, striking voice and perfectly pitched majestic songs.
Born in Washington DC, Evans moved with her family when she was a nipper, first to Waterford, and then Dublin. “Both my parents were Pentecostal and involved in music,” she explains. “I kept the music drive and dropped the rest.”
By then, she was in rock bands covering Pantera and Rage Against the Machine tunes, though it was her solo version of Tori Amos’s Icicle that gave her other ideas. Soon after, Evans put together a band – “a very minimal folk trio”.
An epiphany of sorts occurred in her early 20s when she immersed herself in old folk and jazz records and “the gorgeous melodies of Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention; Buffy Sainte Marie’s conviction; Grace Jones and Kate Bushs courage to try something different; Captain Beefheart and David Bowie’s ability to always make me smile.”
There is, Evans says, “plenty of material” for an album, it’s just a question of “where and how”.
