jesca hoop - kismet

.:: Jesca Hoop counts early early folk songs, pop radio, chamber music, gospel music, 20’s to 40’s jazz, ol’ country, ol’ blues, slave songs, dance hall, murder ballads, rock and roll, blue grass and my backyard among her numerous musical influences to her debut album Kismet.

Hoop is a striking, dark haired songwriter from Northern California who writes and sings twisty, sprawling, lyrically abstract songs featuring strange sonorities and offbeat rhythms. Jesca Hoop’s music is like a four sided coin. She is an old soul, like a black pearl, a good witch or red moon. Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night.
Tom Waits.


.:: The debut album by Northern California singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop portrays the young, hip artist as a cross between Tom Waits's eclectic trawls through Tin Pan Alley history, Nellie McKay's knowing irony, and Joanna Newsom's spacey idiosyncrasies. A richly satisfying set of varied and emotionally compelling songs with solid, memorable melodies, KISMET is far from the average trite singer-songwriter blather. Highlights include the dreamy first single "Summertime" and the glorious, Rufus Wainwright-style homage to old Hollywood glam, "Love and Love Again."


.:: "Hoop is a striking, dark haired songwriter from Northern California who writes and sings twisty, sprawling, lyrically abstract songs featuring strange sonorities and offbeat rhythms. Her music sounds as is it comes from an imaginary country, and she sings in the accented English of someone from that country".
The New York Times

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