Juliette Commagere Readies New Solo Album

The Procession Out October 26th

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On October 26th, Juliette Commagere will release her dark and dreamy second full-length album, The Procession. The LA-based musician first appeared in the spotlight as the keytar-slinging frontwoman Hello Stranger, a 70’s glam-inspired band who went on to open for heavy-hitters such as Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, and Against Me! This led her to an eclectic series of collaborations. She’s performed with fellow Silverlake success The Bird and The Bee across the US and on multiple network TV shows.

She has also shared the stage with legends Ry Cooder and Nick Lowe, and has supplied her ethereal vocals for Puscifer (Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan’s side project) and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins’ latest solo album. However it was her haunting, critically acclaimed solo debut Queens Die Proudly, that truly certified Commagere as a captivating artist in her own right. LA Weekly praised it as “vividly orchestrated pop art.”

On The Procession, Juliette has created a work that sounds thoroughly modern and timeless at the same time. She achieves this by fusing her love of classical music with her penchant for electronic soundscapes. Opening track “Eats from the Inside,” highlights the album’s sonic range. Commagere’s bittersweet vocals lay on a slow-burning, atmospheric bed of synths before tribal drums and moody strings burst in to add drama. “Impact” strikes more of an up-tempo vibe with its breezy, island rhythms and “How I Look For You” has the album’s most unabashedly infectious chorus. Legendary experimental musician and Brian Eno collaborator Jon Hassell appears on the eerie and ambient “Plantsong.”

However, even amidst the most intense, swelling atmospherics, Commagere’s voice is always a commanding presence and is never overshadowed by the production. Whether it’s via gently cooing or soaring, multi-layered harmonies, she seduces listeners to grip onto every note she delivers.

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So here we are--year and a half later, and once again I have the task of making my life seem more interesting than it really is. In all honesty, it has been a pretty good year since my first solo record came out, and debbie downers like me don’t use that term loosely. I made a new and even more epic record, got married, got a new dog, got a new hairdo, toured around the world, made some money, spent it all, and played with some strange and not so strange bands. Which subject should I tackle first? My hairdo? It’s amazing.

Okay so the other bands: The Bird and the Bee, Puscifer( Maynard James Keenan’s side project), Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders and Joachim’s pops Ry Cooder and Nick Lowe. Yes, I am quite a versatile little lady. I used to be a snob and never want to play with other bands, but I’m so happy I started doing it because I love it! I have known Inara Georgefor a long time since we went to the same high school, and anyone who’s lived in L.A. long enough knows that going to Crossroads HighSchool is kind of like belonging to some rich and artsy cult. (Kate Hudson, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Deschanel, Jack Black, Gillian Welch, the Haden family, The Like, Inara George, Rooney, Jason Ritter, Simon Helberg, are all graduates) Puscifer on the other hand is what you might call a strange band. A strange band that likes expensive wine.. But there is definitely a part of me that dabbles in the dark side. We did a bunch of shows in Vegas and Joachim and I always fantasize about getting married in Vegas when we’re passing through, but we’re usually too lazy. So when Maynard offered to marry us onstage, how could I say no? Needless to say Joachim’s mom was horrified and asked if we think marriage is a joke and do we not take it seriously and, well, the answer is yes. I hesitated over whether or not to even mention it here because I sort of hate married people. They are really annoying and I always vowed to never become one of them. But that tax man keeps coming around and PF Changs ain’t free.

Touring: Aside from almost going down in a blaze of glory on an 11 hour Korean Airlines flight from hell, I’d have to be a real asshole to say that touring Europe, Japan, New Zealand and Australia wasn’t one of the best experiences of my life. Comedy babble aside--I personally love to travel, and it is in these foreign environments that I truly feel inspired. I see things with clear eyes, I miss the people I love, I experience things I will never forget, and I feel wistful and romantic instead of slovenly and bored. Foreigner was written while on the road in Europe, and Plantsong, in which I enlisted friend Jon Hassell to lend his melancholy sound, I wrote shortly after my Grandmother passed away while I was in Australia. Essentially “The Procession” is a metaphor for life, about trying to move forward, about the things that we make happen and accepting the things that are out of our control, about a longing and a yearning that is deep inside of me and that searches for a way out. I may never find a way to express it, but in “The Procession” I give it one more try.

Oh--and fyi, I’m not French Canadian, I’m a mother fuckin’ Mexican.

-Juliette Commagere