Icarus's poor legs stick out of the placid pretty sea.

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#		Title	Length	Sample
1		Start	0:43
2		Linda	2:50
3		Sitka/Seward's Folly	3:53
4		Ormolu	4:10
5		Upright Man	3:57
6		Favor	2:06
7		Ins. R. Burr	3:50
8		End	1:57

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"Unlike anything else...incredible...a completely unique visionary."
Jim Brunberg, Mississippi Studios

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ABOUT ORMOLU:
"If singer-songwriter Rachel Taylor Brown's third release, "Ormolu," needed to be summed up in a single word, it would have to be "melancholic." But "pensive" could work well, too, as would "brooding," or to keep it simple, "sad." And "beautiful" would be apt as well.....And that's the difficult artistic trick Brown has pulled off with "Ormolu." She's managed to construct a quick listen that feels almost epic, an album that demands to be encountered and examined again and again."
Scott D. Lewis, The Oregonian
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"Its not surprising that Rachel Taylor Brown sings with a couple of local classical groups when shes not performing as a solo artist or playing in her friends bands. Her voice sounds pure and gorgeous; her songwriting and sparse, piano-based arrangements are classic. Ormolu...a collection of hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking songs illuminate what happens when love turns into something poisonous and people turn into something other than what we wanted."
Barbara Mitchell, The Portland Tribune
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"Brown never loses the humanity of each of the characters she creates, in the same way that Breugel could record our follies while also expressing the love he felt for our silly species. As with her past releases, Brown exercises her considerable range as a vocalist, reminding us of her classical work and her ability to put that to use to create dark expressionist tonal worlds like the ones found on Ormolu. Think Randy Newman meets Stravinsky."
Dave Mazza, The Portland Alliance
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...uncompromising in her writing, willing to imbue her songs with the artful attack of dissonance, storm and stress, and lyrics that will rip your heart out. Part madwoman in the attic, part pop-diva, Rachel is a crazy talent.
Chris Robley (The Sort Ofs, Fear of Heights), Cutthroat Pop Records
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"Your music is dark with a light outside, like being in the attic and looking out the window, not the other way around, like being outside on a beautiful day and staring into a grave. There is a BIG difference. I love Ormolu more every day. It has all the emotional depth without the final and absolute desperation." ap

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ABOUT JONAH DAYS:
"Brown's songs have been described as catchy alt-pop, but they're darker and subtler than that. Many of them have a twist that catches you by surprise... Dawning awareness that things aren't what they seem..."
David Stabler, The Portland Oregonian

"... she has created an album of gravity and substance, haunting in its charm - memorable in the grandeur of its effortless simplicity. [Jonah Days] is to music what John Sayles' "The Secret of Roan Inish" is to film: an enduring folk tale, rich with timeless images. Inspired and original."
S.P. Clarke, Two Louies Magazine


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GIGS FALL/WINTER 2006
(see CD BABY "Jonah Days" or "Do Not Stare" RTB pages for complete shows history...links to the left)

UPCOMING SHOWS 2006

HOUSE PARTY, The Jarmer House
Friday, December 9, 8pm
Delighted to be joining Rene and Michael (Here Comes Everybody) for a house concert in the Jarmer Living Room, which contains a most excellent baby grand piano. RSVP: 503-236-8966 or rene@herecomeseverybody.com $5-10 per person sliding scale This is a house concert, not simply music at a party. Seating is limited so you MUST RSVP. Light snacks and tastefully cheap wine will be provided (feel free to bring something to share). The House Concert format is a nice format to really hear the music and get to know the musicians. CDs will be available for your consumption. We look forward to seeing you!

(w/ Fear of Heights)
HOLOCENE
January 11, 9pm
Isolade (Kaitlyn ni Donovan)
Fear of Heights
John Weinland

EDGEFIELD
The DIVA SERIES w/ Skip Von Kuske
January 15, 7pm
free

(w/ The Sort Ofs)
BERBATI's
January 25, 9pm
The Sort Ofs
Sophe Lux
Silverhawk

SOMEDAY LOUNGE
FEBRUARY 10
RTB solo
The Cavalcade of Beautiful Losers

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Muse des Beaux Arts
by W.H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturers horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Brueghels Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

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