Emilie Autumn

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Emilie Autumn (real name Emily Autumn Fritzges , according to her own information Emilie Autumn Liddell ; born September 22, 1977 or 1979 in Malibu , California ) is an American musician , poet , songwriter , singer and author , who mainly through her studio album Opheliac in gained notoriety in various subcultures. Her music is difficult to classify in terms of style, as it contains both classical and modern, synthetic elements. At the end of 2009 she published her first novel.

Career

Emilie Autumn is the daughter of the German immigrant Wolfgang Fritzges from Hamburg , who died in 2004, and the costume designer Janice Longmire, who was very successful in the US figure skating scene and who was also responsible for her stage outfits at times. According to her own statements, her parents started raising her to be a violinist and composer at the age of four, so that at the age of 13 she composed her own song, including lyrics. Between 1995 and 1996 she worked as an assistant director in two productions at the Colburn School of Performing Arts . In 1997, their first album was released under the Messina Productions label . Around the same time she founded the music group "Ravensong", with which she played a few concerts, which was soon disbanded. When she separated from this label three years later to found her own "Traitor Records", her debut album was re-released under the title "On a Day ..." .

Emilie Autumn at the M'era Luna Festival (2007)

A year later her first poems were published under the title “Across the Sky & Other Poems” and the two singles “Chambermaid” and “By the Sword” . Furthermore, she was under the name The Jane Brooks Project on the road. However, so far only two works are known of this project. In 2003 her second album "Enchant" followed . Her last release under her own label was the volume of poetry "Your Sugar Sits Untouched" with two audio CDs, which was released in a limited edition of 3,000 pieces.

At the end of 2005, the German record label Trisol Music Group became aware of Autumn and signed it. The first EP was released a short time later and it became popular for the first time in Germany and Austria. Her third album " Opheliac " was initially published in an edition of 2,000 copies and received particular praise from the German-speaking black scene and was mentioned several times in well-known music magazines such as Orkus or Zillo . At the beginning of the following year the album was finally reissued and made available to interested parties across Europe. On her "Liar / Dead is the New Alive" EP there are remix versions of some other well-known artists such as ASP or Dope Stars Inc. Later she started her first big tour across Europe.

“ Laced / Unlaced ” , also released in 2007, is their fourth studio album and contains two discs. The first CD contains a new release of their album "On a Day ..." , which was not officially available in Europe until now, plus five live recordings. The second CD contains a completely new instrumental album. A short time later she announced for the first time that she wanted to publish an autobiography.

In 2008 two EPs were released and the album "Enchant" was reissued, in addition the compilation "A Bit o 'This and That" was released , which contains many previously unreleased pieces, as well as songs from older projects such as Convent . Towards the end of the same year, she canceled her contract with Trisol and signed a little later with The End Records label , as she saw no other possibility for the publication of her book.

At the end of 2009, the album Opheliac was re-released under their new label in order to make it available to American fans. A short time later she toured the USA for the first time. After the end of this tour published Autumn finally with the book "The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls" (dt. The Institute for Wayward Victorian Girls ) one consisting of fictitious and partly autobiographical stories and diary entries novel. In it, she also deals with her own bipolar disorder . A translation of the book into German has not yet been published. In the same year she posed for erotic photographs for the German magazine Kin Kats . In early 2011 she announced the name of her new studio album, Fight Like A Girl . During their North American and European tour, some pieces from the album have already been presented and after the tour the first advance single was published in the form of a download on their website. In 2012 she made her acting debut in Darren Lynn Bousman's horror musical film "The Devil's Carnival".

On July 24, 2012 her new album, "Fight Like a Girl" was finally released .

Style and perception

music

The early albums “On a Day…” and “Enchant” move stylistically between classical and folk- inspired music (comparable to Irish groups like Clannad ), pop , rock , R'n'B (“How Strange”) and borrowed techno ("Juliet"). At the time, Autumn called her music "fairy pop" or "fantasy rock" .

With the later albums she opened up to other genres and increasingly linked her previous style with electronic elements from the fields of Electropop or Electronica ("Opheliac") , cabaret ("Girls Just Wanna Have Fun & Bohemian Rhapsody") and heavy metal - similar sounds (Unlaced) , which she does not produce with a guitar, but with an electric violin ( e-violin ). Another common auszumachendes instrument is the harpsichord , with the stage piano -80 P Yamaha and with the sampling - Keyboard Ensoniq ASR-10 simulated and mostly at the 3/4-time (see. Waltz is used) ( "Marry Me ") .

Particularly noticeable on “Opheliac” are the percussive elements. Metal and distorted samples were increasingly used for the beats. According to her own statements, Autumn uses the sound of her trash can lid slamming as a snare drum in “Liar” .

Autumn pairs the dark lyrics, which are often shaped by her own life, with distorted voices, low whispers and aggressive screaming. Based on her preference for the Victorian era, Autumn calls her style "Victoriandustrial" or "Violindustrial" , although there is no reference to the actual industrial genre.

Discography

Albums

  • 1997: On a Day ... (re-release 2000)
  • 2003: Enchant
  • 2006: Opheliac (re-release 2009)
  • 2007: Laced / Unlaced
  • 2007: A Bit o 'This and That (Compilation)
  • 2012: Fight Like A Girl

EPs and singles

  • 2001: Chambermaid
  • 2001: By the Sword
  • 2006: Opheliac Limited (EP)
  • 2007: Liar / Dead is the New Alive
  • 2008: 4 O'Clock (EP)
  • 2008: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun / Bohemian Rhapsody
  • 2012: Fight Like a Girl / Time For Tea (Download Single)

Guest Posts

  • Background vocals and violin on the album "Americas Sweetheart" by Courtney Love (2003)
  • Backing vocals and violin on the album "The Future Embrace" by Billy Corgan (2004)
  • Violin on the song "Dethharmonic" on the album "The Dethalbum" by Dethklok (2007)
  • Vocals and violin on the EP "All Mine Enemys Whispers" by Attrition (2008)
  • The song "Organ Grinder" is featured on the European version of the Saw III soundtrack (2006)
  • The song "Dead Is the New Alive" is on the European Edition of the Saw IV - Soundtrack (2007)
  • Violin in the song "UR A WMN NOW" on the album "Smash the Control Machine" by Otep (2009)

bibliography

  • Across the Sky & Other Poems (2001)
  • Your Sugar Sits Untouched (book and double CD, 2005)
  • The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls (2009)

Web links

Commons : Emilie Autumn  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emily A Fritzges, Born 09/22/1977 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org. Retrieved September 22, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Emilie Autumn: There have been questions about my legal name for some reason lately - It's in the book. Emilie Autumn Liddell. There you go, curious PRs. In: @emilieautumn. April 5, 2010, accessed September 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Gothic Lifestyle, summer edition (July / August) 2010, page 17
  4. ↑ THE ASYLUM - Emilie Autumn's Official Forum • View topic - My dad's gone, and more pleasant notes on the world today ... October 5th 2011, archived from the original on 5 October 2011 ; accessed on September 22, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Asylum Plague Doctor - Autumn's mother, Jan Longmire, used to have an ... Retrieved September 22, 2017 (English).
  6. ^ University of Southern California Chronicle; Volume 15, Number 11 November 6, 1995, p. 10 , archived from the original on November 5, 2015 ; accessed on September 22, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ Emilie Autumn - Biography | Billboard. Retrieved September 22, 2017 (English).
  8. ↑ Russ Elliot and Emilie Autumn: Emilie Autumn at Musical Discoveries. Retrieved September 22, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Interview: Neo-Victorian Violinist, Singer Emilie Autumn - Los Angeles Music - West Coast Sound. May 23, 2012, archived from the original on May 23, 2012 ; accessed on September 22, 2017 .
  10. ↑ SXSW 2014 Crowd Reacts to Godzilla - Dread Central . In: Dread Central . March 19, 2014 ( dreadcentral.com [accessed September 22, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Autumn, Emilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES EA; Liddell, Emilie Autumn; Fritzges, Emilie Autumn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1977 or September 22, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Malibu , California