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Indie, folk, acoustic, New Zealand.

Ōtautahi-based Indie-folk musician Just Janie is entering a new era with her debut album Mythology of the Girls. A reaction to nostalgia through a modern lens, the album pays homage to the folk scene of the late sixties and early seventies and deconstructs the rose-tinted perspective for the era where women faced a myriad of societal limitations.

“The album formed around my curiosity for women’s stories, often shadowed by men’s. voices and perspectives lost in time. These women’s stories are portrayed alongside personal anecdotes from my experiences as a young woman, an artist, a farmer’s daughter, a musician, a mental health worker, within Aotearoa,” said Janie.

Nestled in the Waitaki Valley, the album was recorded in the transformed 1927 woolshed at Sublime Studios. Using vintage recording processes, Just Janie and her band tracked the album via an analogue pathway to tape. An ambitious and increasingly rare approach allowing them to sonically replicate an era inspiring the music.

“As someone deeply nostalgic for the sixties and seventies from a musical standpoint (think Joni Mitchell and the Crosby Stills and Nash boys all jamming at house parties in Laurel Canyon), I wanted to capture the magic of those early studio recordings and tape felt like the way to do that. You can almost hear me grinning in those songs, looking through the window of my sound booth at my band.” said Janie

The first taste of what was to come included sister songs Mythology of the Girls and Cielo Drive. Hollywood, Hippies, 1960’s counterculture, the beach boys. Starting the story with Mythology of the Girls, delving  into the Manson girls and why they should have stayed home, followed by the second chapter Cielo Drive, exploring Sharon Tate and how her name would inevitably become entwined with theirs.

The third and final single Mythology of the Girls dropped April 9th. An ode to oneself, Janie said “I read somewhere that the rain mimics the identity of the sky, and I thought that was a beautiful metaphor for a song.” Sometimes we become the rain, mimicking the sky. But I like to hope we find ourselves eventually.

Mythology of the Girls is a captivating and tender menagerie, stepped in the golden warmth of the Laurel Canyon hey-day. Following the release of Mythology of the Girls, Just Janie is touring with a full band across Aotearoa this winter.

Tracks:
1. A Woman to Love
2. Mythology of the Girls
3. Cielo Drive
4. She was Seen
5. Margot
6. Suburban in Stepford
7. Mirror Rain
8. The River

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfEMc5tfuMo