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Emma Ruth Rundle

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Career

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When Red Sparowes went on hiatus in 2011 she formed the brilliant Marriages. - May 8, 2014

couple years, through which Rundle went experienced a “dark, difficult time”; marked by family problems and personal struggles, and 2013 sees her settle in Sargent House’s home studio to record Some Heavy Ocean. - May 8, 2014

Apt that the album was recorded at Sargent House’s home studio, Echo Park. - echoesanddust - May 20, 2014


Musical style and influences

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Growing up with folk music, it has been a strong influence on her work

She grew around folk music - May 19, 2014 Some Heavy Ocean is described as being alt or post-folk - May 8, 2014

She was part of the and folkgaze, mix of folk music and shoegaze, collective The Nocturnes - May 8, 2014

her skills are a vital component of the post-rock ensemble Red Sparowes - May 20, 2014 - she works herself up into nerve-pinching growl that’s recalls Björk at her most unhinged. Throughout the rest of tracks—particularly the mournful yet urgent “Run Forever”—Rundle’s comes across like a student of both Chelsea Wolfe’s frigid intonation and Marissa Nadler’s gloomy coo. May 20, 2014

she recalls Sinead O’Connor at her finest. This album gives me the same feeling of something special that I experienced when I first heard O’Connor’s I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got. The songs, playing and striking twists and turns of the vocals showcasing a true talent. echoesanddust - May 20, 2014 Perhaps a lazy comparison, but this track, along with a few others, does remind me of Chelsea Wolfe, however Rundle always manages to retain her own unique identity. May 20, 2014 There’s a contrast in detail between ‘Oh Sarah’ and ‘Savage Saint’, the former is one of the sparsest tracks, gothic in (Wolfe) tone - May 20, 2014


Influences

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She Kate Bush is an all-time favorite, as well as Cocteau Twins, - May 19, 2014 

Parts of the track are reminiscent of the Smashing Pumpkins at their most delicate. - May 8, 2014


Emma Ruth Rundle citations

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Transcript Vents Magazine 2014 interview:

ERR: Thanks very much, i'm doing well and writing to you from the desert where it is suprisingly cold today.

ERR: All my parents wer musicians. My mom was constantly listening to music - all the time - in the car, at home. She made frequent trips to Tower Records, taking both my sister and I with her.

V: Influences?

ERR: i really struggle with this question - i don't sit down and think.. today i will write a song in the vein of the Velvet Underground's second record... i suppose some people do. especially if you act to write songs in the wworld of top 40 pop hits, etc. I wouldn't be good at doing this anyway. My influences consist of all the sounds i've heard in my life - working at a local guitar shop for years knowing to the people come in and play on the Teenage phases that cycled me through things from einstürzende neubauten celtic harp collections, scott walker to skinny puppy, tori amos to everything between left their mark.

If I had to make a huge generalization????, i would say the msuic of the western world (vs. the traditional music of China etc. which i do also love... haha| look hold. I know that's never the answer people are looking for. V: Story behind "Shadow of my Name"

ERR: i wrote "Shadow of my name" last year. It was a song that Greg (Greg Burns of Marriages) really loved and encourgaed me to finish. We tried it on a Marriages song and it was fitting for what was the upcoming acoustic Glassroom Sessions we were to do for Sargent House. After that, we tried to play it as "big wig??" Marriages loud, ???? ,,, full drums etc. it just didn't work an i wanted to keep my song as it was. just a little song for guitar and song V: Recording and writing process of Some Heavy Ocean??

ERR: All the writing was done in the year around recording. The first song i finished was "Oh Sarah". for my sister. i write music when i am alone. it's just something that happens and songs either come or don't. I had wanted to make a recording of songs i write this way for some time. So when Marriages finished a tour with Deafheaven last summer. i came home to Sargent House ans just started recording with Chris (Common) in the studio he had set up there. It was something we worked on everyday for a while and i didn't facous on anything else really until it was done. It was an intense experience.

V: How did you come up with the title?

ERR: I always loved the title of the DCepenche Mode record Some Great Record. It calls up an armrophouse and almost meaningless, unattainable goal. Some Heavy Ocean also described something vague for in a way- an obscure location, a moving and dark thing. You can walk up to the edge of the sea and try to describe its quality but it's vast and unspeakable- to be underneath such a thing, unable to ???? it or understand. fully yet feel its weight constantly on you. Water is attributed with the creative and emotional or at least i think it is. That is how i think of it.

V: Where did you get inspiration for the songs and lyrics in this record? I understand by the time you wrote this album, you were emotionally exhausted and frustated?

ERR: The content of the Some Heavy Ocean is simply a reflection of my life and feelings- i don't feel comfortable speaking candidly about what and why ???. That's what the songs are for, if that makes sense. One lyric: "In secret I sing for no one else" and that's very much he case. Having said that, i hope those who do listen to come find their won meanings in the lyrics or music.

V: Who come up with the ideea of the artwork and what's the concept behind it?

ERR: While on tour last summer, Marriages made a pilgrimage to White Sands, New Mexico. It was one the happiest days i've ever lived. We landed in the most beautiful alien landscape of endless white powder and i felt so intensely wonderful that is just ran around as a kid. Greg Burns (Marriages) is a greaat photographer and shot a bunch of stuff there for himself; he captured so many great photos that day, some of which, i happened to be in. Those photos became the artwork. Sonny Kay did a wonderful job of the layout, so i can't really take any credit for any of it. The Sand does give the illusion of us being by wter but we were actually in the middle of the desert.

V: Will you be hitting the road this year?

ERR: Yes. Going to Ireland ??? in the summer and possibly some stuff before and/or after first.

V: What elseis happening next in Emma Ruth Rundle's world?

ERR: Finishing up this new Marriages album this month, about to work with director Thomas McMahan (www.yesyes.tv) on a video, painting a lot, hanging with Cathy Pellow and her dogs, switchting?? from Logic to ????, waiting for the new Mylets record and rewatching X-Files from the beginning. Maybe try to shred some guitar.

V: Where can we find out more about your music?

ERR: Either on the Sargent house website, my tumblr, which has a regularly updated feed if wghat's is going on (insert tumblr) and there are some other things about my visual art and other projects i've been in on my website (emmaruthrundle.com). The only other active band i'm in right in now is Marriages, which you can also hear and find out more about on the Sargent House website.

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