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https://www.musikblog.de/2024/09/jane-weaver-tickets-zu-gewinnen/ 20.09.2024 Berlin – Kantine am Berghain

[rad-review-of-gigs]

Jane Weaver, Scala, London 02/05/24

Widnes siren a delight and constant spectacle at the capital’s Thunderdome

On The Revolution of Super Visions Jane Weaver sings ‘Overgrown with something. Do you look at yourself and find nothing?’ As if tapping into the mystery of why she has not reached the firmament.

The legendary Scala, which channels Mad Max’s Thunderdome as people drip over its balconies gazing upon the stage, has bitter memories for Weaver, which she hopes this evening will dispel. When she last appeared in 2022, supporting Richard Hawley, Mercury announced it was pulling her record deal during the sound check. This was another slice of poor luck with the music megacorps that has at times dogged her career. On the verge of being signed by Factory Records in 2015 founder Rob Gretton died of a heart attack before her album could be released.

Once supported by North West heavyweights Doves and Elbow and highly regarded in music circles, her sophisticated, but accessible and ethereal trippy psychedelia, bearing the influence of Gong, has inexplicably, barely penetrated mainstream consciousness and it’s less talented, bloated fish who have sucked up the available oxygen. 

Only occasionally has she popped the membrane of relative public obscurity. The rejuvenative, but  dark undertones of single, Modern Kosmology, were the perfect backdrop to Villanelle eating pizza in Killing Eve. Weaver did reach no.24 in the singles chart in lockdown, but intimates she’s been placed higher in the celebrity foot appreciation site Wikifeet!

Perhaps in the marketing sense she has never aggressively pushed herself and selflessly promotes other acts on her own Bird label. Undemonstrative on set, as are the band, the songs are delivered with a restraint that could transform the venue into an all encompassing, theoretical mass of swirling sound, but it isn’t. Notwithstanding the Scalalites are largely middle aged, more preoccupied, no doubt, with bladder relief than MDMA, it’s only at the encore that they throw shapes for the spine tingling, soaringly propulsive I Need A Connection. 

That said, we’re treated to the very best on her latest acclaimed release on Fire Records,  Love A Constant Spectacle; from its soaring title track to the virtual prog rock of Perfect Storm, the 80s post new wave of Is Metal and the pagan, English folk inflections of Family Of The Sun. Plus shrewdly selected highlights from her back catalogue of almost a dozen albums.

Each melody is irresistibly infused with ambient, space age tweaks and overlays in the spirit of SunRa and jazz fusion. Weaver’s voice is as technically accomplished and transformative live as it is in recording. Even at fifty two, she sounds thirty years younger. Discarnate, supernal. We experience the rapture, her cosmic sunshine midst the melancholia.

All that is missing is Kosmology’s ecstatic I Wish.  Mission Desire, from 2014’s  breakthrough album, The Silver Globe, seems to further accelerate us on this galactic journey. Your mission, dear reader, should you choose to accept it, is to dig Jane Weaver. 

Words: Adrian Cross; Photos: Richard Gray

[musikblog]

https://www.musikblog.de/2024/04/jane-weaver-love-in-constant-spectacle/ Bereits mitten im dritten Jahrzehnt ihrer Solokarriere sollte man meinen, Jane Weaver hätte längst jede Nische, jede noch so kleine und dunkle Ecke ihres Soundkosmos ausgeleuchtet und erforscht. Und klar, wo es 2002 noch mit psychedelischem Freak-Folk des Debütalbums “Like An Aspen Leaf” losging, brachte die englische Songwriterin in den folgenden Jahren mannigfaltige Kreativ-Etappen hinter […]

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https://www.musikblog.de/2024/04/musikblog-praesentiert-jane-weaver/ Wer da? Jane Weaver, eine britische Singer/Songwriterin und Gitarristin aus Widnes, Cheshire im Nordwesten von England. Und was macht die so für ‘nen Sound? Wir zitieren vom Promozettel: “[Es] beschwört spektakuläre Bilder herauf und destilliert die Vision der Künstlerin in ihrer reinsten Form, indem es ihren unnachahmlichen Sound und ihre poetische Vision auf neue Höhen […]

[biigbri]

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[biigbri]

A kaleidoscope of groovy psychedelic folk. Her last few albums are all contenders for best albums of year. Give her a listen 🎶👌🏻 #janeweaver #modernkosmology #firerecords #electronic #folk #synthpop #krautrock #psychadelic #vinyl #vinylcollection #recordcollection #vinyladdict #vinylcollector #vinyljunkie #vinylporn #nowspinning #lp https://www.instagram.com/p/CW_Tg0Bgq5f/?utm_medium=tumblr

[the-keeper-of-the-gaze]

Looking forward to this evening's edition of #Timstwitterlisteningparty ... Jane Weaver weaves magic psych spells with her wonderful folk-psych, and this takes you on a beautiful journey... #JaneWeaver #ModernKosmology #psychrock #folkpsych #FireRecords #Liverpool #Manchester https://www.instagram.com/p/B-0BhN3H5cN/?igshid=1j0xd0x6wdxop

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