Emma Ruth Rundle

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Emma Ruth Rundle (2013)

Emma Ruth Rundle (born October 10, 1983 in Los Angeles ) is an American singer , songwriter and guitarist . In various band and solo projects she processes influences primarily from folk , ambient and post-rock .

biography

First years

Emma Ruth Rundle grew up in California . As the daughter of two musicians, she already spent a lot of time at the age of eight or nine in the legendary McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica , where many musicians, from Joni Mitchell to Tom Waits and Henry Rollins , gave important concerts in an adjoining room . Her first instrument was a Celtic harp that her father, a pianist, bought from McCabe's. She received her first guitar, a Fender Mustang , when she was 13 years old. Emma Ruth Rundle later worked in the guitar shop, where she got to know a number of the musicians with whom she gradually worked musically. Although a music school is also attached to the business, she never took formal guitar lessons there, but trained herself as an autodidact. She was inspired by a number of musicians she met at McCabe's.

Band projects

Guitarist with the Red Sparowes

After several trips and stays abroad, she founded her first band, The Nocturnes, in New Zealand in 2007 . The project started as a duo and released a first EP in January 2008 under the title Wellington . Shortly thereafter, Emma Ruth Rundle moved back to Los Angeles, where the multi-instrumentalist and singer Paris Patt joined the band. After the LP release A Year of Spring and other line-up changes, the Nocturnes formed as a quartet that recorded the LP Aokigahara in 2011, which was critically acclaimed . The band had now found an easily identifiable sound that combined folk and shoegaze elements with a slightly distant duet vocals (Rundle, Patt).

From around 2009 Emma Ruth Rundle was also a member of the Red Sparowes formation , a project that united prominent musicians from the post-rock scene in Los Angeles into a supergroup . On the purely instrumental album The Fear Is Excruciating, but Therein Lies the Answer (2010), the last of the band, she played a key role in shaping the band's sound, which is dominated by three guitars, and also played a major role in the compositions. After the Red Sparowes broke up, Rundle founded the trio Marriages in 2011 with ex-members of the band, drummer David Clifford and pedal steel guitarist Greg Burns. The first full-length album, Salome (2015), featured a new drummer in Andrew Clinco. Stylistically, the project is exposed to such different influences - from post-rock back to the alternative rock of the late eighties and nineties - that some critics missed their own identity, despite their appreciation for the individual musicians.

solo

On several occasions Emma Ruth Rundle has emphasized that the folk is her basis and an affair of the heart. Even her preference for bands of very different origins - from Mazzy Star to Smashing Pumpkins to Nirvana - suggests that she appreciates musical diversity. This openness is reflected not least in her solo works. The first work Electric Guitar One was published in 2011 without a label by the online music service Bandcamp ; a vinyl release followed in 2014. The guitar compositions, carried by meditative ambient sounds, which manage almost without the use of vowels, received little public attention. For Emma Ruth Rundle's further career, the release of the six tracks was, according to her own statement, of great importance. Through them she gained the self-confidence to continue to appear under her own name and to increasingly question genre boundaries.

The album Some Heavy Ocean (2014), which is sometimes erroneously referred to as her solo debut, clearly differs stylistically from the debut and presents itself as a folk-based singer-songwriter production that has some parallels to the late Nocturnes recordings. However, the use of reverb and other effects gives some tracks a psychedelic quality. In general, the atmospherically dense songs reflect family problems and personal struggles. The acoustic guitar, which Emma Ruth Rundle does not work with a pick but with an artificially extended fingernail, communicates with a violin played by Andrea Calderon on some songs (e.g. Savage Saint ) . Critics attested Emma Ruth Rundle not only to be a stunningly lithe and versatile guitarist ( Pitchfork ), but also to have never used her voice so convincingly before. After the release of Some Heavy Ocean, the artist was no longer bound by any genre convention: I am a person who makes noise. Sometimes it's folk, sometimes it's not.

In autumn 2016 she continued on the path she had chosen. Distorted guitar sound met melancholy picking parts and created a cosmos full of pain, sadness and anger on Marked for Death . ( Spex ) In early 2017 she recorded a split EP with the band Jaye Jayle. On their fourth solo album, On Dark Horses , released in September 2018, critics discovered not only a lot of gloom but also moments of longing, indulgence and nostalgic feelings. The sound was compared to that of Slowdive , but without the eight pieces getting lost in pedal-fixated Shoegaze orgies .

Discography

The Nocturnes

  • Wellington , EP, 2008
  • A Year of Spring , LP / CD, 2009
  • Aokigahara , LP / CD, 2011

Red Sparowes

  • The Fear Is Excruciating, but Therein Lies the Answer , LP / CD, 2010

Marriages

  • Kitsune , EP, 2012
  • Salome , LP / CD, 2015

Emma Ruth Rundle

  • Electric Guitar One , LP, 2011/2014
  • Some Heavy Ocean , LP / CD, 2014
  • Marked for Death , LP / CD, 2016
  • On Dark Horses , LP / CD, 2018

Emma Ruth Rundle & Jaye Jayle

  • The Time Between Us , EP / CD, 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 10 questions for Emma Ruth Rundle , Musicradar, September 7, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Interview with Emma Ruth Rundle , Echoes and Dust, May 30, 2014 (accessed October 7, 2016)
  3. ↑ The Nocturnes, Aokigahara. Album review by Vivian Hua , redefinemag.com (accessed October 7, 2016)
  4. ↑ The Nocturnes, Aokigahara. Review by Zenith Lazerstorm , Sputnikmusic (accessed October 7, 2016)
  5. ↑ Interview with the Red Sparowes ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Black online magazine (accessed October 18, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blackmagazin.com
  6. ^ Marriages, Salome. Review by Timothy Monger , Allmusic (accessed October 7, 2016)
  7. ↑ Interview with Emma Ruth Rundle , Cvlt Nation, March 19, 2015 (accessed October 7, 2016)
  8. ↑ Emma Ruth Rundle, Electric Guitar One , Bandcamp (accessed October 7, 2016)
  9. ↑ a b The Seventh Hex Interview: Emma Ruth Rundle , sargenthouse.com, October 22, 2014 (accessed October 7, 2016)
  10. ↑ a b Emma Ruth Rundle, Some Heavy Ocean , Pitchfork , May 20, 2014 (accessed October 7, 2016)
  11. ↑ Emma Ruth Rundle, Marked for Death ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Spex , October 1, 2016 (accessed October 7, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  12. ↑ Black sound clouds and galloping horses , laut.de (accessed October 21, 2018)

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personal data
SURNAME Rundle, Emma Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer, songwriter and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , United States