Hear an interview with Rachel Zeffira tonight on Echoes
Rachel Zeffira is a former operatic soprano who now vocalizes in caressing whispers. She makes an enchanting and haunting dream pop, telling tales of suicide and lost love, placing it all in a chamber music setting. She doesn’t like to reveal the meanings of the songs on her album, CD of the Month The Deserters, but she does, on Echoes.
Highlights:
On her hushed singing style: I’m singing in a completely opposite way to what I did in opera. I couldn’t be doing things more differently and I was quite loud as an opera singer.
Rachel Zefirra – The Deserters
On her honesty: It’s so embarrassing telling you all these lies. I mean, you’re, you’re not gonna believe a thing that I tell you after.
One the lie that got her group, Cat’s Eyes, into the Vatican Church: I wrote to the Vatican and I said we were a visiting choir.
Something true about “Letters from Tokyo”: And then they got detectives onto it and stuff and eventually they found that the mom had, had jumped off a cruise ship and died.
Something more true: If I can’t be honest in my music then I’m really screwed, so this album had to be honest.
Hear Rachel Zeffira’s full interview tonight on Echoes.
Read a review of Rachel Zeffira’s The Deserters and hear several tracks.
Below, watch Rachel Zeffira’s video for The Deserters.
Rachel Zeffira’s group Cat’s Eyes, at the Vatican:
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