ARTIST: LIZ JANES & CREATE(!)
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CATALOG NUMBER: AKR 017
FORMAT: CD
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 6, 2005
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LABEL NAME: ASTHMATIC KITTY

After working with Sufjan Stevens and Rafter Roberts on her first two full-length
albums, Virginia native Liz Janes takes on a collection of dramatically re-arranged
public domain songs with Los Angeles based free jazz collective, Create(!).

A lo-fi lullaby of century old blues, folk songs and prayer music Liz Janes & Create(!)
adds new wrinkles to well ironed standards. Jump-up jigs have been repurposed as
plaintive banjo-led ballads while Biblical slave songs are smashed and stretched into
full shack stomp and boogie. Here the work of Charlie Patton, Pete Seeger and
the Carter Family are imbued with the spirits of John Coltrane, John Fahey and
Nina Simone.

Recorded and produced by Create(!)’s Chris Schlarb in a one room shack without
the use of any electric instruments, Liz Janes & Create(!) features some of Janes’
most inspired singing. Her voice slithers out from acoustic guitar drones of “All The
Pretty Horses” and scrapes its rocky bottom on “Be My Husband.”

Liz Janes has collaborated with such disparate artists as Sufjan Stevens, Black
Heart Procession, Bedroom Walls, soul-junk, and Castanets.

Create(!)’s communal approach to music encompasses their own city-sponsored
music workshops, performing at both jazz and hip-hop festivals and counting as
many as fifty musicians as part of the collective at one time or another.

On Liz Janes
“Janes knows how to write songs that sound like they have been around for decades,
but puts twists on the old themes...to create her own unique sound.” - Venus

On Create(!)
“If Jackson Pollock played music”- OC Weekly

Asthmatic Kitty Records/P.O. Box 1282/Lander, WY 82520 USA/ www.asthmatickitty.com