Bay Space singer/songwriter Mae Powell has at all times been an advocate for residing together with your coronary heart in your sleeve. “I wrote ‘Tangerine’ as a testomony to my very own squishy coronary heart—this concept of a young coronary heart being akin to a fruit getting smushed within the backside of a bag, making a large number but additionally making all the pieces odor actually good,” she says. “I’m additionally on the lookout for the stability between open-heartedness and limits that may function an act of self-love and care.”
With all that high of thoughts, Powell composed “Tangerine” and the remainder of Making Room For Gentle (Karma Chief/Colemine) whereas residing on her mom’s farm a couple of hours north of San Francisco. Produced by multi-instrumentalist David Parry (Loving, Alice Phoebe Lou), the album was recorded at Risque Disque studio on Vancouver Island.
“We have been channeling Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline on the attractive, sunny day we recorded ‘Tangerine,’” Powell says. “All of us wore sun shades and drank whiskey whereas we have been monitoring this one. After Sam (Jones) tracked drums, he and David baked a pie. Garrett (Barley) rips the electrical guitar and the Hammond organ. It looks like a summer time day—and the drum fill into the organ set the stage, sonically and thematically, for the entire album.”
We’re proud to premiere Mae Powell’s “Tangerine.” Making Room For Gentle is offered August 15.
—Hobart Rowland
