Renee-Louise Carafice's debut album has been awarded the Alternatui Album of the Year by the NZ Music blog Counting the Beat.
"It may make for disturbing listening but Renee-Louise Carafice's album Tells You To Fight is a stunning and unique album. By now, surely everyone knows that the songs on the album were her reaction to a period of hospitalisation for depression. On the basis of the early demos she went on to win a major cash prize and then produced this album in the USA. Carafice avoids the trap of producing a bunch of overwrought solo recordings that the subject matter may have suggested. The arrangements and production and Carafice's unique voice result in songs that are dramatic in their content and delivery. This stands out as a great NZ album."
Renee-Louise Carafice Tells You To Fight was also recently named in the
Renee-Louise Carafice
Renee-Louise Carafice is a dark-folk-pop songstress born in New Zealand based in Chicago. With a bitingly honest and brutally fragile voice, she sings of her “messy rollercoaster ride” of a life, over rich and complex melodic structures.
Carafice sings with an alarming openness about desperation, love, loss, homelessness and longing, all the while maintaining a sense of glorious hope at the end of the road.
Some of the songs on her debut album “Renee Louise Carafice Tells You to Fight” hark back to Carafice’s experience with mental illness, and ultimately, institutionalization on her twenty-second birthday. But, states Groove Guide, “far from causing the album to be pigeon-holed by ‘context’, the music’s initial catalyst gives it a layer of heavy-lidded clarity - love, wisdom and longing by way of the addled brain.”
Renee-Louise Carafice's debut album has been awarded the Alternatui Album of the Year by the NZ Music blog Counting the Beat.
"It may make for disturbing listening but Renee-Louise Carafice's album Tells You To Fight is a stunning and unique album. By now, surely everyone knows that the songs on the album were her reaction to a period of hospitalisation for depression. On the basis of the early demos she went on to win a major cash prize and then produced this album in the USA. Carafice avoids the trap of producing a bunch of overwrought solo recordings that the subject matter may have suggested. The arrangements and production and Carafice's unique voice result in songs that are dramatic in their content and delivery. This stands out as a great NZ album."
Renee-Louise Carafice Tells You To Fight was also recently named in the
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"House on Fire" is the second single from Carafice's debut album "Renee-Louise Carafice Tells You to Fight". It was written for Texan alt-country singer Micah P Hinson who Carafice met while supporting him on his New Zealand tour in 2005.
"We were instant buddies and got on extremely well," Carafice explains. "For me that was quite a rare thing at that point in my life. We'd both been to hell and back and maybe you can attribute it to that.
"He's a person who just tells it like it is, both in his music and on stage... he uses profane language and smokes endlessly and is just a very vivid personality.
"I was very impressed upon that this young guy who had so much in common with me was traveling the world with his music."
Renee-Louise Carafice is a dark-folk-pop songstress born in New Zealand based in Chicago. With a bitingly honest and brutally fragile voice, she sings of her "messy rollercoaster ride" of a life, over rich and complex melodic structures.
Carafice sings with an alarming openness about desperation, love, loss, homelessness and longing, all the while maintaining a sense of glorious hope at the end of the road.
Some of the songs on "Renee Louise Carafice Tells You to Fight" hark back to Carafice's experience with mental illness, and ultimately, institutionalization on her twenty-second birthday. But, states Groove Guide, "far from causing the album to be pigeon-holed by 'context', the music's initial catalyst gives it a layer of heavy-lidded clarity - love, wisdom and longing by way of the addled brain."
"Renee-Louise Carafice Tells You to Fight" was recorded in November of 2005 at Steve Albini's elite Electrical Audio in Chicago. Engineer
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‘Bodhisattva’ is the first single from Renee-Louise Carafice’s debut album, ‘Tells You to Fight’ to be released on the 28th April. The video was shot and directed by Chicago-based Israel Alpizar.
Renee-Louise on Bodhisattva
“One of my friends was really struggling, deep in this mess - a very melodramatic
character who had a reputation for feeling suicidal whenever he broke up with a girl..
I was driving my car to this party house where I knew my friend was... and feeling very strong feelings of sympathy for him, and of wanting to be a guiding light
for him... and this song came to my head, a very big song, full of instruments, like "leader of the pack" but different.”
