Artist description

Music Style Singer-Songwriter/Alternative/AAA

Similar Artists Tori Amos Sarah McLachlan Suzanne Vega

Artist History About Jamie Rattner [with Excerpts from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"] You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands 'I don't deny things with my hands,' Alice objected. 'Nobody said you did,' said the Red Queen. 'I said you couldn't if you tried.' Jamie Rattner could not deny things with her hands if she tried. Her songs of sincerity and poignancy have been falling from her fingertips and her lips for more than a decade, leading listeners to the most unexpected of places, melodically, harmonically, rhythmically, and emotionally. But how curiously it twists! It's more like a corkscrew than a pathÖ well then; I'll try it the other way.... And so she did: wandering up and down, and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to the house, to do what she would. The house to which Jamie Rattner always returns is the piano. Whether playing a nightclub in Boston or New York, a coffeehouse in Zurich, a vineyard party in Tuscany, or a recital hall at Berklee College of Music, the piano is never unaccompanied by Jamie; that is, except for a few notable exceptions, like the irreverent track "Go Down" that opens her new album. But it is Jamie's use of the piano as a sketchpad, sounding board, soapbox, and soulcage that makes her a rare jewel. Alice said in a thoughtful tone..."When I make a word do a lot of work like that, I always pay it extra." Jamie possesses an uncanny ability to twist, contort, and remold words and their meanings. She reshapes lullabies into macabre stories such as in her signature song ìMotherî. Her astute ability to combine a searing lyric and an endlessly stimulating piano performance that is so satisfying to listeners across genres. There is a little bit of everyone from the sensitive to the sinister in all of her songs. ...Alice had been reduced at last to say, "Well, you can be one of them them, and I'll be all the rest.... how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?" Like Alice, Jamie expands both the sonic palette and the contextual range normally found in artists of the AAA genre. Her music is thoughtful, provocative, and dynamic. Her influences range from Nine Inch Nails to Suzanne Vega. But it is this breadth and range that has put her right at the center of appeal. "It's time for you to answer now," the Queen said.

Instruments Piano/Voice/Guitar

Albums Jamie Rattner

Location Boston, MA - USA

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