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Jeremy Bass: Winter Bare
Brooklyn’s Jeremy Bass recently released the first of two EP’s included in his recent successful Kickstarter. Winter Bare, the excellent first gift in the pair enjoyed a successful release party a night or two back. Jeremy says of the new EP, “‘Winter Bare’ is an album of love songs, but its lyrical center tends to hover around love’s fragility and the potential for loss, rather than committing wholly to the joy of falling in love or the devastation of losing it.”
The tune was the first one that Bass wrote after falling in love again following a devastating divorce that left him physically isolated from the world.
“I thought that feeling was dead in me for a long time,” he says, “But then suddenly, without looking for it, it reappeared when I least expected it.”
Bass’ and his new girlfriend were long distance for a time, which is reflected in the song’s longing and its preoccupation with the unknown. He had begun working on his pair of upcoming albums during his period of isolated existence in the brutal winter of 2013.
“It was on one of those dark nights when it was all I could do to keep myself from going crazy,” he remembers. “Winter has always been tough for me, and the winter of 2013 was especially hard.”
Just prior, Bass was splitting up with his wife, selling the house they shared together, and toiling away for the third year straight on a debut album that he had become disconnected with by the time it was finally released late last year. Returning to single living in Brooklyn during the intense New York winter of 2013, Bass found himself secluded in an empty house, sifting through his memories.
“I was drinking, I had run out of money, I was nearly unemployed, and certainly unemployable,” he confesses. “But, I had a fireplace and my guitars.” Though Bass was in the grip of despair, he thought that maybe he could write his way out of it and actually change the course of his life in the process. By the end of the winter, I’d fallen in love again, and had a set of songs that wove their way through loneliness, despair and near-insanity, to love and longing, and ultimately hope,” he says.
Following up from, “Winter Bare” – which arrived on April 14th will be a strikingly different album of Bossa nova-inspired tunes called “New York in Spring” on June 2nd Musically, the album bares the influence of musical outlaws such as Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, and Tom Waits.
[via Fanatic]
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