nikgml's video: Chelsea Wolfe - Lone from the Insound Studio Sessions

Artist/ Band: Chelsea Wolfe Album: "Pain is Beauty" Released: 2013 Chelsea Wolfe / vocals, guitar Ben Chisholm / programming, bass, keys, piano Kevin Dockter / guitar Dylan Fujioka / drums Andrea Calderon / violin Ezra Buchla / viola Patrick Shiroishi / saxophone, baritone clarinet How often nowadays do we read of an artist's "intensity", or their rhetorical, one-of-a-kind individuality? Journalistic hyperbole routinely contorts the mundane into the "epic", the tired into the inspired, all the while heaping praise on performers as seemingly vacuous and generic as possible. Navigating the landscape of contemporary alternative music can be an exercise in redundancy; true visionaries and boundary-pushers are few and far between. Enter Chelsea Wolfe. To simply call Wolfe unique would be an understatement. Even among her peers in the so-called "drone-metal-art-folk" scene she's an icon, a stand-alone singer/songwriter whose fully-formed aesthetic and haunting timelessness appear almost without effort. Inspired by the dark state of the world and the strange connection between all things, she creates a unique musical blend of goth-folk, experimental rock and spiritual realm funeral songs. With influences ranging from the great minds of Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch, to soviets and end-times literature, her songs conjure visions of other dimensions, claustrophobic echo-rooms and parking garage cathedrals. Wolfe emerged in the music scene with a breathtaking debut album, 2010′s "The Grime & The Glow", immediately establishing herself as the focal point in a wave of new artists intent on blurring the lines between established alt-rock memes. Marrying the gentle intimacy of folk, the atmospheric voodoo of death rock, and the bleak, sullen nihilism of black metal, Wolfe's sound effectively cast a genre all her own: a cavernous rumble, marked by stuttering drums, ethereal synths, and a wash of guitar, all very much in the service of one of the most hypnotic, celestial voices in modern music. In 2011, Wolfe relocated to Los Angeles and recorded her second album, "Apokalypsis", which was subsequently met with critical adoration. In 2012, she signed with L.A.-based Sargent House and released Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs, less an "unplugged" digression than an exploration of the sonic possibilities afforded by peeling-back some of what makes her characteristic sound so lush. On September 2013, Wolfe released her third studio album, "Pain is Beauty". A self-described love letter to nature, many of the album's 12 tracks veer in a decidedly more electronic direction than previous recordings, while at the same time capitalizing on Wolfe's trademark penchant for the morose and otherworldly. As she explains, the album "becomes an exploration of ancestry, how the mythology, landscapes and traditions of our ancestors affect our personalities today." The songs of "Pain is Beauty", emphasize massive builds with engulfing power in the vein of Swans. Wolfe's indecipherable vocals tend to forego a lyrical message for the sake of mood, but the sublimely intoxicating strength of her melodies carries weight. "Pain is Beauty" presents not so much an auditory experience as it does an encompassing atmosphere with which the listener can surround themselves, a soul-stirring link with infinity. Album closer "Lone" provides a tentative parting of ways necessitated by the formalities of physical media. "When the sorrow is all gone", breathes Wolfe, "it is buried in the sun". Lyrics when the wind takes 'em all away from here, away from me when the sorrow is all gone it is buried in the soil when the wind takes em all away from here away from me when the sorrow is all gone it is buried in the sun when the wolves howl their song and the whole earth is done when the wolves howl their song and the wind still carries on For further information, please visit: http://www.chelseawolfe.net/ https://www.facebook.com/cchelseawwolfe https://twitter.com/cchelseawwolfe Original Artwork: "Dark Lies", by Philomena-Famulok: http://philomena-famulok.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Lies-399788454 More info, in the link below: http://philomena-famulok.deviantart.com/ nikgml is here to stay: http://www.youtube.com/user/nikgml -All the material used in this video, is property of the artist who recorded this material. No copyright infringement intended. "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."