No Sun, by Nite Jewel

No Sun

by Nite Jewel

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Nate Stevens A great album that puts Nite Jewel's incredible voice forward and center in a really cool way, with really cool electronic works dancing just out of sight at many moments. Really neat!

ERIC HAT All I can say at this point is that I feel like I’m always hoping and waiting for more from Nite Jewel. And here it comes! So stoked.

Chris Akers You're a friend that does me right.

kasowasu she had literally outdone herself, this is a great album, I love the silences, great element to her music.

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1.	Anymore 06:47		buy track
2.	Before I Go 03:32	lyrics	buy track
i gather all the words to sing or be heard and i won’t take it will you listen i’m screaming like a bird a far away word i’m calling to you will you take it it seems so long ago we were in throes my hand you were holding will you take it again before we go before i go oh hear me now i won’t talk about my feelings if you come around mm what’s it about you hesitate to touch the water but i swimming out i’m swimming out i gather all the words to sing or be heard and i won’t take it will you listen i’m screaming like a bird a faraway word i’m calling to you will you take it it seems so long ago we were at home my hand you were holding i can’t fake it one more before we go before you go and i go i wouldn’t want anything than what’s best for us but you keep leaving me with silence it hurts so much i can’t do anything to make you come over to me i heard they said the truth will set you free seems so long ago we were at home my hand you were holding will you take it i’m screaming like a bird it’s a faraway world but i’m calling to you will you take it i have all my words to sing and be heard but you won’t take it you won’t listen oh one more time before we go before i go
3.	Show Me What You're Made Of 04:17		buy track
4.	To Feel It 03:19		buy track
5.	#14 03:17		buy track
6.	No Escape 04:23		buy track
7.	This Time 04:30		buy track
8.	When There Is No Sun 05:50		buy track

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Born out of personal loss, the tradition of lament, and a Moog sequencer, Nite Jewel’s No Sun is a feat of unguarded electronic music. The album is grounded in Gonzalez’s electronic oeuvre and academic research, but is also a sonic expulsion of pain.

In 2018, Gonzalez’s twelve year marriage dissolved. This left her alone and displaced, drifting from friend’s couch to friend’s couch. At the same time, she began her PhD in Musicology at UCLA. Gonzalez’s research on women’s musical lament practices formed a historical backbone for what became No Sun. Dating back to ancient Greece, the lament has utilized female voices as a vehicle for expressing communal and personal grief. In her research, Gonzalez considers this tradition within the context of contemporary pop divas, asking the question “What does it mean to be a professional mourner?” or to be a woman hired as an emotional vessel for a historically male composer? Gonzalez’s research considers the creative power of such singers, arguing that while often seen as visceral performers alone, these women are agents in their own right.

No Sun questions and remodels the archetype of female pain. The album follows the tradition of a woman’s voice in lament, but Gonzalez’s role as an auteur producer complicates the stereotype of a female voice as a mere repository for suffering.

The creation of this album was a ritual practice, a spilling of sudden loss and abandonment. In its spacious and steady synth production, Gonzalez evokes deep loneliness. However, while No Sun could be interpreted as electronic dance music for an era of death or mourning, it is also a fervent celebration of life.

In her instrumentation—which oscillates from sparse synths to dizzying experimental soundscapes—she reforms the lament into something hypermodern. No Sun is stacked on top of a genre bending (and defining) career in which Gonzalez’ innovative songwriting has been the focal point. In No Sun, Gonzalez honors a tradition of mourners whose voices were overlooked as mere tools, by allowing the ethereal power of her voice to float to the forefront of her sonic world.

credits

released August 27, 2021

All songs written by Nite Jewel except

“Show Me What You’re Made Of,” percussion by Corey Fogel, additional synthesizer by Julia Holter
“No Escape,” percussion by Corey Fogel
“No 14,” saxophones by Brian Allen Simon, Juno 6 by Jay Israelson
“This Time,” guitars by Corey Lee Granet
“When There is No Sun” written by Sun Ra

All music produced and recorded by Nite Jewel except

Percussion and vocals recorded by Jake Viator at Stones Throw Studios. Guitars recorded by Corey Lee Granet; winds recorded by Brian Allen Simon; vibraphone, Juno 6 and strings recorded by Jay Israelson

Mixed and Mastered by Jake Viator at Stones Throw Studios

Cover photography and design by Tammy Nguyen

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