Sometimes the lines get hopelessly crossed. The result is a densely layered song cycle in which youth speaks ahead to experience, and experience looks back forgivingly on the indiscretions and passions of youth. Even if they’re skewed.” As the lyrics for Keepsake came together, Ziman found herself layering current memories and perceptions atop ones written down by her younger self. And the songs ended up being about memories and expectations, the ways we try to rework the past.”Įvery time you make an album, Ziman says, you’re freezing a moment of your perceptive history: “Making a record immortalizes your memories. When I began writing the lyrics for this record, they came out as distorted memories of the past. I’d recently come across all these writings from when I was a kid, and all these unfinished lyrics and poems. I’d started having all these bizarre kinds of anxious dreams about being in an unfamiliar place. “I was sitting across the street from my building, looking back at it, trying to imagine what it would be like not living there anymore. “That was the reason I called it Keepsake,” says Ziman, an ebullient and thoughtful conversationalist, from her studio/loft in NYC (the landlord relented Ziman’s back home). Well, who’s to say where anything begins or ends? But for Ziman, who records as Elizabeth And The Catapult, Keepsake was definitely a milestone record-the end of one thing, and the beginning of something else.
Or it began when she started leafing through old journals and diaries, little half-finished snatches of lyrics and couplets and freewriting, and tried to see if she could shape them through to some kind of completion. Or it began when she started keeping a dream journal, writing down snippets of visions in the middle of the night, or first thing in the morning on awakening. Keepsake (Compass), Elizabeth Ziman’s fourth record, began when her landlord was considering jacking up the rent and she had to move across the street into a tiny apartment, far away from her recording gear and the baby grand piano on which she loved to write.
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When you spend $25 at, you can download a free sampler featuring tracks from Bright Eyes, Dungen, Dinosaur Jr.Elizabeth And The Catapult’s Keepsake is part memoir, part dream journal-and all rejuvenating Get a Free Digital Sampler from and Insound! Talk: Is Elizabeth & the Catapult ‘perfectly perfect?’ Fans of Lavender Diamond and Feist should be head over heels in no time.įun Fact: While Ziman’s first musical memories are of reinterpreting Debussy tunes on an upright piano as a child, one of her first big breaks came when she sang backup vocals for Naughty By Nature at a Special Olympics performance.Įlizabeth & the Catapult – “Momma’s Boy” DOWNLOAD MP3 The singsong swing of “Momma’s Boy” makes it one of the more tuneful kiss-off songs in recent memory, and it’s made even more potent by the smoldering regret of “My Goodbye.” The high-spirited “Perfectly Perfect” gives a glimpse of what could be in store for the group’s long-in-coming debut LP. But those comparisons soon wilt away in favor of influences including Laura Nyro and Fiona Apple as the group utilizes elastic rhythms and darker subject matter that give its songs a darker, slow burn resonance. What’s the Deal? It’s tempting to toss E&TC into the Norah Jones piano-driven pop pile, particularly because of their common New York connection. The band’s self-titled EP, recorded in a basement in the middle of sub-zero Boston, arrived late last year, while a studio full-length is slated for a fall release.
Core band members Dan Molad (drums), Pete Lalish (guitar), and Matt Wigton (bass) round out the group, though at times its numbers swell with the additional horns, strings and other orchestral elements that add layers and depth to an already lush sound. Who? Greenwich Village songbird and pianist Elizabeth Ziman is the main cog of moody, indie pop outfit Elizabeth & the Catapult.
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