You best believe that I listen to you readers when you suggest something for me to check out. In the last “Check This Band Out” entry, which recommended The Parlour Trick, ‘markajacoby’ recommended that I check out Jill Tracy, stating, “She’s been doing this for years and is phenomenal. If you like this check her out because not only is her music great, she has one of the most haunting voices out there!” Well, you sold me!
Based in San Francisco, Tracy is a multi-instrumentalist whose musical style is very cinematic in nature (check out her score for F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu here). She herself stated in an interview, speaking of the “Eye Of The Beholder” episode of The Twilight Zone:
How fantastic that a story could evoke such emotion and response essentially revealing so little. I abide by that in my approach to music. It’s the breath, the spaces between the notes and the arrangements that make the work come alive. The soul lives in the silence.
She continues, stating:
…mood can be solely conjured by music. Someone’s at a carnival, and it’s supposed to be happy, but then suddenly the music changes and gives it a sense of dread.
Head below to hear some of her fantastic music.
