AMOREE LOVELL: The Burning Bush

Amoree Lovell

The Burning Bush

© 1999 Amoree Lovell

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Imagine a sci-fi, gothic, cabaret, beautiful, chain-smoking demon gleeful dancing under a full moon with a shot of jagermeister in one hand and your clean, white bones in the other...

tracks

1 Inch
2 Beauty
3 Katherine
4 Lament of the Designated Driver
5 Cute Boy
6 Boobs

notes

Lovell's mordant cabaret-style repertoire triangulates Nick Cave, Kurt Weill, some more blackhearted '80s New Wave and Danny Elfman, her personal hero. ("My influence? It's him. I rip off Danny Elfman every chance I get.") She cuts a unique figure on Portland's club scene, taking stages usually decked with rock bands, alone at the keys, wreathed in eternal cigarette smoke. She may be the only musician in a niche-happy town equally at home at punk dive Billy Ray's, indie-rock haven Blackbird, and Mock Crest Tavern, North Portland's blues stronghold. She's definitely the only one whose single favorite gig is playing the Hollywood Theatre lobby during the annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, as she did last weekend. And, cool as it is, you sort of hope no one else ever rewrote their childhood piano-lesson book into a cycle of love songs about Godzilla.
A striking figure, all right...
-Zach Dundas (Willamette Week)

reviews

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  • Gorgeous voice, witty lyrics, excellent music
    author: jamjar

    I've been playing these pretty much constantly since I bought them and they're definitely worth having on repeat. Killer voice, perfect music for the words and really good lyrics, witty, genuinely funny, dark and appealing all in one. A good example of how to do this kind of thing right.

  • brilliant
    author: Morgan Grace

    Amoree is so brilliant and original why she isn't playing sold out shows every night of the week is beyond me. She is too good for our feeble minded attention deficit disordered America. The Burning Bush is a great way to get to know Amoree's music, but better still see her perform live...the kind of music you'd expect to hear in the dark parlor of a haunted house....visually stunning....creepy....orginal....goddamn brilliant.

  • sparkly-darkly! buy it, fool!
    author: a random listener and well-wisher

    Amoree Lovell's got balls where you can't see 'em. She plays piano, sings and writes songs with style and heart, and the resulting sound is a flash thunderstorm in a drought. Six songs is not enough - you will be thirsty for more. More!! (an aside for the ladies: if a fellow has recently attempted the removal of your cardiac organ via intestinal tract, repeated listening of this CD will help you arise victorious from The Pit, or at the very least remind you that the walls have been scaled before.)

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