St. Peter, by Emma Tricca

St. Peter

by Emma Tricca

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ferment premier d'une série de deux album incroyable, Aspirin Sky et ST peter sont deux immense albums qui resteront dans la mémoire et le corps de ceux qui auront la chance de l'entendre, it's two Astral Week ! a lysergique journey sans prendre de saloperie, la belle n'est jamais loin dans sa voix de Karen Dalton...oui...et....Billie Holliday...et oui !! bravo madame, le groupe autour de vous tisse un écrin fabuleux qui pourra nous emmener très loin.
St Peter un chef d'œuvre ? oui.

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about

I knew I was ready for a change.” Says Emma Tricca of the direction on her latest album, St Peter. Even when she was making 2014’s Relic, the seeds were already being sewn for where she would and what would crop up next. “I seem to start thinking about the next record halfway through recording whatever I’m recording; it’s a never-ending process. I constantly think about lines, poems, melodies. I carry a notepad with me at all times.”

As someone who has spent the years since her last record travelling between London, Rome, and New York, it works to Tricca’s advantage that she’s able to respond whenever inspiration strikes. Songs for this album were penned in Soho cafes, Pigneto apartments and Bushwick lofts. “I guess I seem to follow the inspiration when it comes, “ she says. “Often the songs are sparked by everyday life images.” If this conjures up the image of a travelling poet soaking up life and all its offerings, then that’s not too far off the mark as poetry is a significant inspiration for Tricca . “1950s beat poetry, the Italian twilight movement Crepuscolari and Hermetic philosophy are amongst my biggest influences,” she says.

If the album is formed together by countless everyday images and experiences from an artist who is creatively alert at all times, then it was carried over the finish line by an equally vast and eclectic number of musicians. Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley is on drums, Pete Galub on bass, The Dream Syndicate’s Jason Victor on guitar (amongst other instruments) and various guest performances come from the likes of Howe Gelb, Paper Dollhouse’s Astrud Steehouder and folk icon Judy Collins. Collins whose manager loved Tricca’s 2009 record Minor White (released on Jane Weaver's record label Bird) was an especially big deal for Tricca. “I literally learned to play fingerpicking watching old footage of Judy that I had taped when I first started getting into that kind of guitar sound. I had burnt a hole in that tape as I was rewinding and fast-forwarding it so much.”

The bulk of the album was recorded in Hoboken, New Jersey. “It was magical really, a dream studio,” Tricca recalls. “A big live room with the best gear ever and amazing musicians to work with. We had fun, there never was a tense moment and it felt we were just working together at the service of the songs – no ego involved.” Whilst Tricca went into the recording knowing what she wanted the album to sound like - “The Velvet Underground meets Fairport Convention” she told Steve Shelley over Vietnamese food one night - the end result is something much richer and far expansive than perhaps even Tricca herself could have hoped for.

The album is one so loaded with texture that almost feels tangible, a rare record that feels precise and pristine in its executions but never sterile or lifeless. Electric guitars fizz away like a controlled electricity, Tricca’s guitar playing flows gracefully at the core with her vocals existing in the perfect state between slight rasp and caramel-smoothness. Shelley’s drumming and percussion give a steady heartbeat to the record which is further brought to life by a variety of deft instrumentation, including piano, bass, cello, violin, glockenspiel and of course the variety of guest backing vocalists.

Whilst St Peter’s deep-seated roots can perhaps be traced to traditional folk music, its finished existence feels far from such a thing - its ever-flowing essence skipping through genres, tones, paces and rhythms with a gliding grace. Perhaps even a touch of the spirit of Hoboken’s own Yo La Tengo has seeped into the finished record in its quiet yet stirring beauty.

Such was the natural fluidity of the words coming out of Tricca and the music coalescing harmoniously in the studio, she finds it almost impossible to reflect on the songs themselves, as though they were uncontrollable pieces oozes from her as a vessel or conduit. “The songs just came out one after the other….I can’t really explain.”

credits

released June 6, 2020

Emma Tricca - Vocals, Guitar
 Pete Galub- Bass 
Steve Shelley - Drums, Percussion
 Jason Victor - Guitar, Bass (The Servant's Room), Keyboards, Glockenspiel and Background Vocals
With: 
Emanuel Ayvas - Piano on "The Servant's Room" 
Clara Kennedy - Cello on "Salt" 
Dana Lyn - Violin on "Salt" 
Geoff Soule - Shakers on "Winter, My Dear" 
Sean Read - Piano on "Winter, My Dear"
 Cecilia Fage - Background Vocals on "Winter, My Dear" 
Astrud Steehouder - Background Vocals on "Fire Ghost"
 Howe Gelb - Voice on "Fire Ghost" 
Judy Collins - Voice on "Solomon Said"
Judy Collins recording by Alan Silverman at Arf Studios, NYC
Recorded by Ted Young at Echo Canyon West, Hoboken NJ, with additional engineering by Ernie Indradat, Tommaso Colliva, Sean Read, and Kyle Statham
Track 1,2,3, recorded by Steve Silverstein and Ted Young
Mixed by Ted Young at Outer Space Studios, Brooklyn NY
 Mastering by Sean Reed at Famous Time Studios, London
Produced by Jason Victor
All Songs by Emma Tricca**

Publishing 2017 - Artist Vision Publishing
**Solomon Said Tricca/Victor - Words from the composition "Albatross" By Judy Collins - The Wildflower Company/Administered by Universal Music Group (ASCAP)

Photography: Julian Hand
Artwork: Stan Chow

Original Release date:
20 April 2018

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