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“It's her voice that
smacks you around the head. It's utterly unique. […] Her own compositions are drenched in the American blues, but
always stay true to her own inimitable sound”.
Ruth Barnes, BBC 6 Music ‘Pick Of The Week’ "Super
fine and sassy singer fusing a Tarrantino-esque sense of cool with a vocal style
that imbibes both Peggy Lee and Edith Piaf with touches of jazz and rock 'n'
roll”. Time Out
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Florence
Joelle's Florence
Joelle - Vocals, guitar, harmonica Listen
to Florence Joells Kiss Of Fire on myspace:
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Songstress
and blues harpist Florence Joelle,
with a style all her own and a subconscious colonised by vintage American tunes,
sings of things that go bump in the night.
Paris-born, she was bred on jazz at home, and on the music of the
city’s streets: the Gypsy art of Django Reinhardt, bal musette, and North
African rai. As a girl she began to
collect rock’n’roll, doo-wop and rhythm’n’blues, and echoes of all these
can be heard in her songwriting. Introducing the unstoppable Chris Campion on bass. The infamous Arthur Lager (aka Nick Comb from The Scientists, Gallon Drunk) on drums and percussion and, on lead guitar, the tenacious tunesmith Huck Whitney (Flaming Stars), Florence and her group Kiss Of Fire have been impressing audiences with their unique brand of roots sounds, not just in London but all over Europe it seems. Released
on Butterfly Records for 7” vinyl and 360 Degrees Music for digital, their
debut EP came out in September 2010, receiving impressive press reviews, from
Time Out to Bucketfull Of Brains, on both sides of the Channel (including radio
play on mainstream Spanish and German radios), as well as ‘Pick Of The Week’
on BBC 6 Music (Ruth Barnes, Tom Robinson Show). Recorded
straight to 2” tape at vintage analogue studio Gizzard, their eponymous first
album, while drawing from the past, carves out a unique sound that lives in the
present, bringing their own slant to the likes of Chick Webb’s ‘40s reefer
blues ‘When I Get Low I Get High’, and the ‘50s R&B staple ‘Unchain
My Heart'. Joelle’s own
compositions, like the colourful ‘Hell Be Damned And Look Out (You May Only
Live Once)’ which highlights the band’s signature sound, ‘Stardust
Merchant’, echoing early jazz standards and the melodrama of the post-war
French songbook, the passionate ‘I’ll Come Running’, the rootsy ‘Gypsy
Boy’, or her ‘Watermelon Gin’, a wistful, calypso-tinged serenade to love
lost, are beautifully arranged by Huck Whitney, Chris Campion and Arthur Lager. A
video of ‘Stardust Merchant’ directed by Chris Campion, will be released
early this year. Number
5 in the Reverbnation London blues charts.
Number 10 in the UK blues charts: http://www.reverbnation.com/florencejoelle PRESS
QUOTES "Super
fine and sassy singer fusing a Tarrantino-esque sense of cool with a vocal style
that imbibes both Peggy Lee and Edith Piaf with touches of jazz and rock 'n'
roll. Her fine band includes guitarist/songwriter/film director Huck
Whitney." Time Out, Dec. 2010 “The
single that I have played most in the last few weeks is by Florence Joelle's
Kiss Of Fire. I first saw Florence a few times last year when she and Sterling
Roswell were playing together. Sterling's no longer working with her but she's
got a cool little band with Arthur Lager on drums, Chris Campion on bass, and
Huck Whitney on guitar. They conjure an atmosphere of sultry exoticism on this
mix of standards and originals that combine early R'n'B stylings with French
chanson and create something very special. Listening to these settings and her
delightful voice the real world fades from view and you're suddenly decades away
in a Left Bank cellar or a Manhattan cabaret. Addictive and compulsive.”
Bucketfull of Brains Dec 2010 “Drawing
upon classic hopped-up America roots music and injecting it with her own je ne
sais quoi, Florence Joelle and her distinguished ensemble (featuring the
notorious leftfield filmmaker Arthur I Walked With A Surrealist Lager on voodoo
drums and Flaming Star stalwart Huck Whitney playing mercurial lead guitar) have
fashioned a sound that is simultaneously timeless and yet entirely current. A
neat trick if you can pull it off, and Florence Joelle's Kiss of Fire have done
it with style to spare. Whether on the inspired covers (early jazz/swing drummer
Chick Webb's mary jane suffused 'When I Get Low I Get High' and the touchstone
1950s rhythm & blues opus 'Unchain My Heart') or Joelle's highly evocative
original compositions (the Latin flavoured 'Watermelon Gin' and the yearning
'Stardust Merchant'), Florence Joelle's Kiss of Fire channel the contemporary
resonance of figures such as Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos and Tom Waits
with French chanson, vintage rock 'n' roll, loungecore and enduring jazz
standards. Perhaps even more importantly, Joelle's wonderfully fractured and
totally unaffected emotive voice speaks of experience and of a life lived to the
full. Florence Joelle is a very welcome antidote to the bland and airbrushed
female vocals that currently infect the airwaves” Ian
Johnston. www.soundblab.com "Link
Wray meets Peggy Lee with a Gallic spice. Fabulous
and highly entertaining". “The future's retro, as Vic 20 once said. Florence Joelle's songs are reminiscent of 40's reefer blues with a 'subconscious colonised by vintage American tunes and things that go bump in the night'. Yet the music is also curiously contemporary. Enjoy!” Scaledown - Resonance fm (Jul 2010) “Florence Joelle and her band Kiss of Fire have packaged together on one EP five songs, a cross between jazz, classic Rhythm & Blues and French charm. The long-awaited release is available as vinyl and download through Butterfly Records. It starts off with a reefer song - When I Get Low I Get High, which Chick Webb released in the '40s ; Florence Joelle and her band transform it into an exciting R&B piece for a dimly-lit cellar bar. At the close of the record too it goes into a territory somewhere between R&B and Rock'n' Roll with "Never Thought I'd See The Day", Huck Whitney's guitar has almost a surf feel while the rhythm section (Chris Campton - b, Arthur Lager - dr) holds it together and Joelle's voice floats above it. The same goes for the second cover version, Joe Cocker's popular "Unchain My Heart" (Teddy Powell/Bobby Sharp); again this French woman finds a version completely her own, lascivious and languid - a person would have to be numb or dead not to let her go. Hers is a voice you can't easily escape. Above all, though there are three songs written by Joelle herself, which make this album a must-buy for all who love jazz blues. Watermelon Gin is Calypso about lost love, melancholic and irresistble. With "Stardust Merchant" she meets her love of old jazz with a French effortlessness. A lovely EP which makes you hope that a full album will be here soon." Nathan Norgel – Wasser Prawda
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