The new record is done and it heralds a new beginning for Laura Doyle. A complete departure from the electronic fascination of her first CD "No Easy Answers" the new album is all real, all live off the floor, all performance. With a new band she calls Passionfish, a new sound and a new producer, Doyle has never sounded better
Finding it difficult to perform the last record live, Laura Doyle decided she wanted to capture the dynamics of what had already been happening in her live shows. The vision was homespun sophistication, a harmonizing of paradoxes, a balancing of polarities. The songs are just that. Both meticulously arranged and yet freely performed by such great players as Randall Stoll (Tom Cochran & kd Lang) on drums, Miles Hill (Roy Forbes, Dee Daniels) on bass and Lanois-esque guitar work from Andreas Schuld. Producer Graeme Coleman steps out as one of the Westcoast's finest musicians on the piano, adding unforgettable motifs and layering in loads of vibe with intuitive and dynamic Hammond B3 organ performances.
Even in the lyric content the paradoxes continue from the profoundly exotic and sultry "In Everything" to the downright cheeky sass in "Someone" where Doyle writes: they say no man's an island Îcause we're born without our teeth/ you can tell me love ain't worth it but I've seen the way you weep. Her new material has a worldliness, a maturity; a deep understanding of the folly of obsession, the faithless meandering of the runaway, the daily struggle to stay buoyant. Doyle's songs offer something better than pop confection, something much more than self absorbed navel gazing - in the metaphors, in the poetry, in the hypnotic rhythms and sweet voiced laments you may find a kind of redemption and surprising lightness of being.
Laura Doyle's 2001 CD, "No Easy Answers", has been widely featured in movies and TV shows, and not just as obscure background pieces. She has a knack for getting to the heart of things and the entertainment industry has noticed. She now has over twenty TV and film placements including 2 songs featured in the Canadian film "Suddenly Naked" which both earned Genie Award nominations in 2003. This easy marriage with the screen should come as no surprise, as Doyle began her career in the entertainment industry as a TV screenwriter in Los Angeles and Vancouver on mostly teen programs including "Neon Rider", "Madison", MTV's "Undressed" and the CBS drama "Early Edition".
The new CD "dark horse" is being released in May and Laura Doyle plans to spend the summer and fall touring.
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