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FAYE WEBSTER
Faye Webster loves the feeling of a first take: writing a song, then heading to the studio with her band to track it live the very next day. When you listen to the Atlanta songwriter’s poised and plainspoken albums, you can hear why: she channels emotions that are so aching, they seem to be coming into existence at that very moment.
“One of my favorite things about songwriting is taking thoughts that people don’t really think are worthy, or might overlook, and highlighting them,” Webster says. “I like saying things that everybody thinks, but nobody’s saying”.
At any given moment, Webster might be making country-tinged indie rock flecked simultaneously by pedal steel guitar and modern R&B production and songwriting techniques–a bespoke sound which has won her ardent fans and turned her into something of a stealth superstar beloved by everyone from southern hip-hop heads and alt-rock tastemakers.
The title of Faye Webster’s new album is inspired by her occasional compulsion to lose herself amongst concertgoers at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Craving company and distraction but also leaning into the anonymity of a bustling crowd, Webster often bought a ticket to a performance at the last possible second. “Going to the symphony was almost like therapy for me,” she says. “I was quite literally underdressed at the symphony because I would just decide at the last moment that that’s what I wanted to do. I got to leave what I felt like was kind of a shitty time in my life and be in this different world for a minute.”
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MEI EHARA (SOLO)
Born in Aichi, Japan, while in school, Mei began filmmaking and her practice later expanded into home recording. After several self-released recordings, in 2017, her first full-length album ‘Sway’ was released from the renown Japanese independent label KAKUBARHYTHM, followed by the second album ‘Ampersands’ in 2020.
Mei has collaborated with Faye Webster on one of the tracks ‘Overslept‘ from Faye’s album ‘I Know I’m Funny Haha’ released in 2021, provided vocals for Cornelius’s single ‘Change and Vanish (feat. mei ehara)‘ in 2022, and has worked/ appeared on various projects beyond music, including editing for the magazine Sono and DONCAMATIQ, and many others.
Mei’s latest double sided 7-inch single ‘Game Over / Picture‘ is out now, and her new album is scheduled for release by the end of 2024.
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