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RED TREE:
Rachel's new album Red Tree released on The 21st of May 2008. Please
click here to read the official Press Release
Red Tree is released on Hushland
www.hushland.com
Brilliant Blue is released on Pipe Records
www.piperecords.co.uk
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Rachel’s live performances
often combine music and visual art inspired by the songs, courtesy
of artist and husband, Bill Taylor-Beales. These visuals include
a full exhibition of digital prints to accompany each song from
her album, as well as a series of projected video images creating
a dynamic wall of evolving scenes for live shows.
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Rachel Bio
Rachel Taylor-Beales has a talent for story telling, with an eye
and ear for the ‘real’ world around her. The mix of
Folk, Jazz, Country and Americana blends to create a sublime sound
that stops you in your tracks. Moving between guitar and piano led
songs she weaves quirky melody and rich harmony into her narratives.
Rachel's Background is one of many homes and places. Before
she'd hit 12 she'd lived in 13 different houses and had relocated
five times between Australia and the UK. As one of many artists
in her family, there was always a spare guitar to hand and this
encouraged Rachel to begin writing songs the by the age of 14. A
few yearrs later she began performing regularly on the Nottingham
scene; met Bill (a visual artist) eventually got hitched and left
for Australia. They spent the next 4 years travelling round on variety
of modes of transport from push bikes to station wagons held together
with string, and after playing and painting in all kinds of places,
they formed a performing arts company. Along the way they picked
up other singer-songwriters, dancers and a rainmaker and decided
firmly never to get proper jobs. Since then they have composed and
performed their way through theatres, schools, prisons, pubs, clubs,
festivals and even an audio book and played an extensive tour of
the UK and America.
Now based in Cardiff, Rachel
has settled down and is well into a career as a solo artist. Her
debut album, Brilliant Blue first self-released and then taken on
by singer songwriter Martyn Joseph (who re-released it on his own
Pipe Records label), was met with great appreciation from those
who heard it. BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris called Brilliant Blue "lovely"
and Acoustic Magazine said it was "hauntingly beautiful".
That album, the first in her colour trilogy, is now followed up
by Red Tree, (Released on Hushland, May 21st 08)
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Much of Red Tree takes British
folk as its starting point. But Taylor-Beales takes the genre in
a new direction, adding in hypnotic, echoing vocals, subtle strings
and country/blues tones so that something entirely new is created.
Her voice ranges from strong and powerful to wispy and dreamy. Her
storytelling recounts her observations with humour, elegance, anger
and sweetness. Together, the impact of Rachel’s songs of great
melody, the wistful ambience and her charming stories combine to
create a startlingly affecting work. Described by Spiral Earth as
a 'Liberating Listen- it should be welcomed with open ears, arms
and eyes,' and 'Individual and compelling songwriting talent, with
a striking singing voice to match' by Folk in the Round...
Always ambitious, Rachel's
live performances often combine music and visual art inspired by
the songs, courtesy of artist and husband, Bill Taylor-Beales, via
video images creating a dynamic wall of evolving scenes. (He has
also occasionally been known to paint live during performances.)
Rachel performs both solo and with an ever varying lineup of her
very talented 'collective' of musicians. Her tastes range from Jasper
Fforde to Camus, Green and Blacks to Haribo fixes, G 'n' T to communion
wine. And her CD player these days is stocked with Waits, Orton,
Dylan, Cave as well as Iron and Wine, Di Franco, Sufjan Stevens
and much more...
Rachel's new album Red Tree is released on Hushland
Records
Please click the link on the left side of
the page for the full Press Release, and to read the latest album
reviews.
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