Exchange by Emily Bezar

"Exchange" is Emily's 5th self-produced album of uncategorizable, emotionally compelling music. If this is a jazz vocal album, then her musical references are an elusive, moving target, suggesting as much early 70’s electric fusion as tin-pan alley.

If this is a classical vocal album, analyzing whether it is post-post-minimalism or pre-pre-Schoenberg is a hard study. And if it is Art-Rock, well then you’ll have to find some room on the shelf between Hatfield and the North and Kate Bush’s early albums, but that won’t quite be the right spot either.

Emily's 2008 interview about "Exchange" with Beppe Colli:
http://www.cloudsandclocks.net/interviews/Bezar_interview08.html

Tracklist

1.	Saturn's Return	6:54

2.	Anything They Say	6:04

3.	Lament	6:02

4.	That Dynamite	5:55

5.	Heavy Air	7:34

6.	Strange Man	9:56

7.	Glory Or Crazy	5:33

8.	Climb	7:51

9.	Winter Moon	11:15

10.	Exchange	4:56

Credits

released July 31, 2008

Written and Produced by Emily Bezar
all music and lyrics ©2008, Blue Countess Music, BMI

Emily Bezar: voice, keyboards, string and horn arrangements except all violin parts on "Winter Moon", improvised by Alan Lin
Dan Feiszli: electric and acoustic basses
Mark Bernfield: drums
Michael Ross: guitar
Phillip Greenlief: soprano, alto and tenor saxophones
Chris Grady: trumpet
Jen Baker: trombone
Alan Lin: violin
Beth Vandervennet: 'cello

Recorded and Mixed by Justin Phelps
with additional recording by Scott McDowell and Emily Bezar
assisted by Laura Dean and Heidi Hansen
at Hyde St. Studio C and Tiny Telephone Studios,
San Francisco, Prairie Sun Studios, Cotati, CA
and Big Tree Studio, Oakland, CA

Mastered by Bernie Grundman
assisted by Joe Bozzi

Album Cover image by Emily's great uncle Ernest Freed (1908-1974), "Divina Commedia #4", 1969 (intaglio print detail, 18"x22")
Used by permission of the family.

Photography by Rory Earnshaw
Makeup by Renee Rael
Art Design by Emily Bezar

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