We just got the word that Elana and I will be performing live on the radio in Madison this Friday, August 19th! We will visit Chris Power’s “Mud Acres” show, which airs from 9-12 on Friday mornings.
You can tune in online around 11 am this friday, CST, at the WORT website: http://www.wort-fm.org/listen.php
This morning, Citizen Dick, a Cleveland-based music critic, posted a review of “Living in a Country,” prompting me to make it free to the public! Click here to read the review and download the track!
Listen to the track on bandcamp:
Off to St. Louis for a house concert tonight! Been hanging with my family in Wilmette – we went to the lake and it was unbelievable – the waves were so huge and the water was chalky brown with sand.
Hey you guys!
I’m so excited to report that the club passim show will be broadcast live on the internet!
Navigate to http://concertwindow.com/passim
on August 23, at 8pm EST and click the play button to watch the show.
there were only 2 tickets left when I checked yesterday.
love, rose
I’ve added a little music player to this page (scroll down, it’s on the right) and also added a “music” page to the site (look up at the main menu!), both featuring a selection of songs from albums I’ve released independently. Please take a listen to the new tracks – there are 5 songs from “The Rabbit” at the top of the playlist.
Those of you who have been checking out the site may have noticed that I am TINKERING with everything. I’m trying to figure out what is my ideal use of various widgets and musician services out there… I’ll keep you posted about what I find.
So far:
Nimbit is the best priced, the most customizable, but the most clunky and difficult to use. It integrates the music calendar with this wordpress site, which I like. The email thing is the hardest to deal with.
Reverbnation is the easiest, but I don’t love the format of it’s widgets – it’s all to red and black for me. And it doesn’t integrate with WordPress in all the ways I would like. Email is more expensive than Nimbit, but easier and nicer-looking.
I love CDbaby, but I wish they had more integrated features I could use with wordpress.
Anyway – I am still working on it.
xo rose
Hi All!
As I finish the artwork/layout (featuring a beautiful illustration by artist Peter Lalish) for the new album, “The Rabbit” – some CD release dates are coming together!
Check out the “Concerts” page on this site, but also here’s the short list:
August 17, Uncommon Ground Devon, Chicago, IL (with Elana Arian on fiddle)
August 19, Motherfool’s Coffeehouse, Madison, WI (with Alana)
August 23, Club Passim, Cambridge, MA (with the gorgeous, sprawling, full on studio ensemble – 11+ wonderful musicians!)
August 24 – Living Room, NYC, with the whole band again!
more soon…
Happy Summer, everybody!
My friend Brian Webb asked me to play and sing with him in the Netherlands last month, and we’re following it up with shows this month at the Lizard Lounge. He’s calling it the Brian Webb Mystery Train, and it will feature special guests each week, starting with the Sweater Set, from D.C., this Wednesday, June 1st. (I met the girls of the sweater set at the Mountain stage Newsong folk competition and they blew me away! we’ve been friends ever since!). I’ll sing a song or two of my own at the show, and be singing along with Brian and playing my newest instrument, the harmonium.
Here’s some footage of Brian and me at our Netherlands show, the Blue Mountain festival:
Shows are as follows:
Wednesday, June 1st, 8:30pm
Lizard Lounge, Cambridge, MA
1667 Massachusetts Avenue, 21+
Wednesday, June 8th, same time and place
(I won’t be at this show, I’ll be at a songwriting retreat!!!!)
special guests from the Providence, RI scene!
Wednesday, June 15th, 8:30pm
special guests TBA, but I know a secret and it’s good.
I wanted to share this video I made (with my friend Elana Arian) last week in order to thank the Iguana Fund for awarding me a grant to help finish my new record! The watercolor stop animation was done at Saltlands studio in Brooklyn (Dumbo), and the song was recorded at Elana’s apartment (Park Slope). Thanks to all who have donated alongside the Iguana Fund! I was at the studio in Brooklyn to mix the album with Gary Maurer (from the band Hem) and the mixes are beautiful! thanks Gary. Gary suggested the whale, and I am grateful.
I’m in the studio today with my friends, mixing down some of the tracks we recorded at Q Division with Sub Rosa last August – and while our amazing engineer Matt Malikowski was busy moving faders, Dinty and I made a new SUB ROSA ad featuring an orange leather sofa and a pretty little clementine.
Check it out!
This SUB ROSA is going to be so much fun – Kris Delmhorst is making her SR debut, fresh off a couple days in the studio recording a new covers project – come hear a teaser! And the wonderful Rose Cousins is actually moving to the Boston area for a few months starting next week, so this will be a great way to tell her you’re happy she’s here.
That’s SUB ROSA – The secret society of Rose Polenzani, friends and strangers
Friday, January 14, 2011, 9:30pm
Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave
Cambridge, MA
Featuring:
(your host) ROSE POLENZANI
DAVE CHAMPAGNE
KATIE CHAMPAGNE
LAURA CORTESE
ROSE COUSINS
KRIS DELMHORST
DAVE GODOWSKY
JENNIFER KIMBALL
KIMON KIRK
KIMBER LUDIKER
ALASTAIR MOOCK
JOEL NINESLING
CHRIS O’BRIEN
JESS TARDY
REVA WILLIAMS
BILLY BEARD
DINTY CHILD
ZACK HICKMAN
AUSTIN NEVINS
CHARLIE ROSE
ANDY SANTOSPAGO
I’ve been working for the last week on some home recordings for the bonus e.p. I promised to those who donate to the next record at the “highest hopes” level or higher… It’s humbling and fun. I used to work with 4-track machines and cassette tapes, and I still have all those Tascam boxes in the basement, but for this one I’m trying to move into the computer age. It’s daunting! No cassette hiss to smooth out the edges. But I’m finding some beautiful moments when I let my creativity loosen up. I’m my own best yes man in the studio.
And I just wanted to say that your generosity has been so truly amazing and wonderful, and the best takes I’m getting on these songs happen when I imagine that I’m actually saying thank you with the performance. The e.p. will be five songs and totally exclusive to those who donate. Thanks all!!
I’m writing from Q division studios in my lovely town of Somerville, MA, where Matt Malikowski and I are doing final mixes of the new record AND a separate e.p. slated for digital release ahead of the album, which will include gorgeous outtakes from both this record and “When the River Meets the Sea,” including “like a miracle,” which should have been released YEARS ago!
Love to all from Davis Square,
Rose
Okay, so it hasn’t been THAT long, but it feels like a million years when you’re in school again. I can’t wait to get back to the Lizard Lounge with all my friends! Yesterday morning I suffered through an 82 question exam and then I went home, got into my pajamas (1pm, folks), hauled all of my felt out of the basement, and made this video to promote the show. I hope you enjoy! and please feel free to embed or link to this video to get the word out about the show. See you all soon!
This SUB ROSA will feature myself, Dave Godowsky, Margaret Glaspy (both recently moved to NY and returning for the show), Chris O’Brien, Dave Champagne, Jennifer Kimball, Brian Webb, Jess Tardy, Chuck E. Costa, Elana Arian, Joel Ninesling, Austin Nevins, Alastair Moock, Charlie Rose, Andy Santospago, and the amazing Zack Hickman & Billy Beard on bass and drums.
And of course, maybe more! Oh, and a stranger. xo rose
You can buy tickets at Brown Paper Tickets.
CDs will ship on August 22 (release date is August 23, 2011). You receive one track from the record instantly when you pre-order, plus a free digital download link on the day of the release!
"The Rabbit" features 13 original songs recorded live in the studio. Produced by Rose, engineered by Matt Malikowksi (When the River Meets the Sea), mixed by Gary Maurer (Hem), and mastered by Jonathan Wyner, this album is full of ambitious, haunting arrangements and thick harmonies. 15 musicians joined Rose in the studio for this long-awaited CD.
