#eva ross

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School basketball team, Lincoln, New Mexico Date: 1920 Negative Number 093117

[launderground]

We celebrate 22 years tonight at Coaxial with Aaron Embry, Nico Turner, and Eva Ross. Due to unforeseen circumstances, THERE will not be able to perform tonight. 8pm/$7 donation Facebook Event

[losangeleslovesyou]

As you know, we don't do this often so we try to make it special for for everyone to spend their time and hard-earned money to come and hang out. We're not playing with this lineup.. Los Angeles Loves... 22 July 20, 2019 AARON EMBRY THERE NICO TURNER EVA ROSS Coaxial 8pm - All Ages - $7-10 donation

[meltedmagazine]

LOSE BY EVA ROSS REVIEW

   Eva Ross’ Lose is an unflinching and chilling debut solo EP, and while it’s only approximately 25 minutes long, the soundscapes of bedroom guitars and Ross’ sirenic vocals seem to stretch much longer, painting scenes of lost love and embraced loneliness. Not an album for a sunny day, but an uncompromisingly stark vision of what it’s like, rather,  to stay inside and make yourself remember your regrets. While most singer-songwriter records don’t have much flair between tracks and often end up as a muddled mix of the same voice and the same instruments, each track on Lose gives a different perspective, ultimately, of loss.

   The title track is actually the most drab of the bunch, offering a pleading account that undermines the rest of the album. Stay for the ride, however, as once Eva Ross actually lets her losses pile up and uses them to turn toward darker themes on the latter half, things get interesting. “Go On” is cold and jealous, and the very opening words are accusatory- “You, go on, go on without me.” Chills.

    Transitioning to “It’s Fine,” we come to reflection- Ross knows how to paint nostalgia, and everyone can understand the evocative power of memory that she nails. She sings “it’s fine, it’s fine, it’s fine”, exactly as we all lie to ourself when we find ourselves in the dreaded “after,” after the relationship, after the boy, after everything becomes solely about you again.

   Thus we come to “Nightmares,” which is, in my opinion, the real gem in the album. Haunting and deliberate, the ability to translate tension and grimness into music is not to be overlooked. “Nightmares” calls from the loneliness, but evokes something undoubtedly sinister.

   Let the drifting soprano voice wash over and to the next track, “Walk Away.” Relatively simple, from the account of someone still reeling from events so, so long ago, it takes nearly the entire song to get to the punchline- “it’s better this way.” Simple, but surprisingly biting.

    “Last Page” is, ironically the second-last song and cages within perhaps the best melody on the album. “Heart is weak, my mind is numb/ Blue ink bleeds out from/ The last page you left me with,” is perhaps the greatest sung lyric on the album. Also, can you apply the word heartbreaking to a chord progression? If so, nothing else comes to mind-- it’s a shame this is the shortest song on the album.

    “Black Shade” is the ultimate ending track here. Words don’t quite do it justice when it caps off the rest of the album, and while it loses its punch once separated, it manages to call upon an overpowering sense of finality. As far as finality goes, Eva Ross’ first album seems almost like the last crushing whisper of an old, world-weary folk artist, and with this in mind it’s curious to wonder what direction she will go next.

    All things considered, “Lose” by Eva Ross is an impressively concise, if slightly linear first attempt at marketable music. It fails only in its lack of diversity and the rare sluggish tracks, (cough, “Walk Away” & “Lose”) but those complaints mostly end up as givens on these kinds of albums. Hopefully, Ross, if this ends up in front of you, you’ll take that to heart, and it should hurt-- if only so it can fuel your next somber creation.

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REVIEW BY ELIJAH MERCHANT

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     An open book of hymns on the table of her dorm, a keyboard in the corner on its stand, small…      An open book of hymns on the table of her dorm, a keyboard in the corner on its stand, small pots of plants on the window sill, memories past pinned to the wall in stills — and amongst them Eva Ross sits on her bed, eyes closed, plucking on to her guitar, singing…

[digitalpharaoh]

Mooz-lum

Amid a strict Muslim rearing and a social life he's never had, Tariq (Evan Ross) enters college confused. New peers, family and mentors help him find his place, but the 9-11 attacks force him to face his past and make the biggest decisions of his life.

Directed by Qasim Basir. Starring Danny Glover, Nia Long & Evan Ross.