Globally conscious artist addresses ocean pollution in
recent clip for Andrew
Bird collaboration, “Tiny Drop,” streaming now; Album arrives Oct. 18th.
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Simone White (Credit: Self-Portrait)
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Simone White | In The Press
“Brilliant whimsy.” — No Depression
“Not just a pretty voice but a mesmerizing
intelligence.” — MOJO
“A voice like ether. It’s sweetly airy and hypnotic.
Hearing it can pull you under to a strangely beautiful, glittering world.” — NPR
“The lean-in-to-listen compositions is what makes her
performances so captivating.” — Time Out
New York
“Already one of the really great American
songwriters.” — Rolling Stone
(Germany)
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Simone White | “So It Goes”
& “Letter to the Last Generation”
“The good news is that Simone White is back preparing for the release of her latest
full-length album Letter to the Last Generation," says Folk
Radio UK, which is currently spinning the album’s latest single, “So It Goes”.
The album’s title track is streaming via Glide Magazine now, which notes the “eerie
wonder” of White’s “soft and
whispery yet impactful vocals.”
Letter to the Last Generation is an album with an atmosphere, a delicate blend of
acoustic instruments and synths, and Simone
White’s “sweetly airy and hypnotic” (NPR)
voice. A natural evolution from her last studio album Silver Silver, White presents a collection of songs
tinged with ache, longing and doubt in an apocalyptic landscape in the
not-too-distant future.
“The song ‘Letter
to the Last Generation’ is, like the title says, written to the future, an
apology of sorts,” she explains. “And through that, I hope, a kind of startling
viewpoint for us in the present. What would you say to children a hundred years
from now? How would you explain what we're doing?”
White is in production with filmmaker Scott Cohen on a music video for the song, and is inviting
contributions from fans. The track will be released on Sept. 20th, the
first day of the Global Climate
Strike.
White is asking participants to “Film someone you love,
and/or have them film you, looking directly into the camera lens, thinking
about the planet Earth.” More info about how to get involved canbe found here.
Simone White (feat. Andrew
Bird) | “Tiny Drop”
The album’s unofficial global theme is also reflected
in the song “Tiny Drop,” featuring
collaboration with fellow singer-songwriter Andrew Bird on violin, which premiered at UN World Environment Day in 2018.
“I wrote ‘Tiny
Drop’ as an anti-war song, but the music video for it focuses on the
effects of plastic pollution in the ocean,” White says. “We're all tiny drops that make up the world. Every
small action you make, every vibration affects the whole. "
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Simone White
Letter
to the Last Generation
Oct. 18th, 2019
Track
Listing:
01. This Is All You Felt (STREAM | MP3)
02. Letter to the Last Generation (STREAM)
03. Little Heaven Little Blue
04. So It Goes (STREAM | MP3)
05. Genuine Fake
06. Harvest
07. Tiny Drop (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)
08. Rain
09. Shadow Pass
10. Letter to the Last Generation (Demo Version)
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Simone White | More Info
While White’s
activist voice is loud, Letter to the
Last Generation will remind listeners of the “cathartic
intimacy” and “mesmerizing intelligence” (MOJO)
of her masterful songwriting, sung with a voice “like ether” (NPR).
“‘Letter to the
Last Generation’ was originally going to be a one-off song,” White says of the tune that inspired
the album. “But that day of recording felt so right. It was so much fun, we were playing live, everyone in the room. I felt excited
about making a record for the first time in ages and I only really heard the
kind of album I wanted to make on that day.”
That particular group of musicians includes Jebin Bruni (Aimee Mann, Meshell
Ndegeocello), producer Pete Min,
who co-wrote three of the album’s songs with White, and adored multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter, Andrew Bird. Grammy®-nominated bassist Kaveh
Rastegar (Bruno Mars, CeeLo Green) also appears on the album.
“Kaveh was
asking me how I came up with the melody of the first line of (album track) ‘Genuine Fake,’” White recalls. “He was grooving with it, playing it on the bass,
and I answered him, ‘I don’t know, it was just suddenly there!’”
While the press has rightly praised White’s vocals and lyrics throughout the
years, it is arguably these “suddenly there” melodies that keep people coming
back.
Letter to the Last Generation, the sixth album by once again NYC-based (after 15
years in Los Angeles) singer-songwriter Simone
White, arrives on October 18th.
Simone White is available for
interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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Simone White | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact
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