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As 2006 draws to a close, Plain Recordings will release Find Shelter , the solo debut from Noah Georgeson. After recording this material, Georgeson would subsequently produce Joanna Newsom's The Milk-Eyed Mender and a new album from British folk legend Bert Jansch The Black Swan among others; he recorded and played on Devendra Banhart's Cripple Crow and plays guitar in Banhart's live band. In addition Georgeson has guested on numerous recent releases including Vetiver's To Find Me Gone .
Find Shelter was written, scored, arranged, recorded, and produced and mainly performed by Noah; string arrangements were performed by the Kite Hill Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Georgeson, all done in San Francisco and Nevada City, California between 1999 and 2003. The final, full impact is lush and lilting, affecting a cinematic atmosphere, all masterfully orchestrated. It's markedly epic and haunting, underscored by Georgeson's dark, rich tenor. It bears comparing to performers like Scott Walker and producers like Jack Nitzche.
From the autumn of 1999 until the spring of 2004 I lived in the first floor apartment in a Victorian house on Castro Street in San Francisco," Noah recalls. "At first, I lived alone in a room that was about the right size for an infant to feel comfortable, and that had, in fact, once been a nursery. After a while, I moved into the room down the hall from the nursery. It was bigger and I shared it with my girlfriend Joanna and her harp and all the collected materials of our lives. Among the waves of our life in this room, Joanna wrote most of the songs that ended up being her first album, and I wrote these songs."
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Noah had grown up in Nevada City, listening to his grandfather's records from the 40's, his parents records from the 60's, his older brother Jon-Eric's cassette tapes of 80's top 40 radio, and his younger brother, Amar playing "The Afternoon of a Faun." Somewhere along the line he started joining local punk bands and playing classical and flamenco guitar. As the only person in town his age that played also classical guitar was one Gyan Riley, they wound up playing and writing together at the latter's parents' ranch, so their first audience was Ann and Terry Riley. Eventually, with a recommendation from Terry in hand Georgeson entered the Master's program at Mills College (a women's school that allows men to attend their graduate school) and studied with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Moira Roth, and Fred Frith (who gave him the worst grade he'd ever received -- Fred is no pushover).
After receiving his degree in 2003, Noah recorded, produced, and played on Joanna Newsom's debut album, The Milk Eyed Mender . Most of 2004 was spent touring with Newsom. That Autumn he began touring as a guitarist and vocalist in Devendra Banhart's band (called at various times, "White Buffalo Deer Woman Appears," the "Hairy Fairies," "Bathhouse of the Winds," and "First Woman Millionaire" ). In January 2005, Georgeson and Banhart moved to a wooden house in Woodstock, New York to record what would become the album Cripple Crow , with Noah engineering, producing, and performing. That Spring, he arranged strings and played guitar for Vetiver's To Find Me Gone , and then toured the rest of the year with Devendra. As the year ended, Georgeson was recruited to produce Mason Jennings fifth LP, Boneclouds , which was released on Glacial Pace/Epic Records and cracked Billboard Top 200. While on tour with Devendra, Noah met the legendary Bert Jansch, and who invited him to produce him, resulting in The Black Swan which was released in October 2006 to overwhelming critical acclaim. |
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