NINA NASTASIA

Touch & Go are reissuing The Blackened Air on limited edition clear-colored vinyl on October 20th. It doesn't look like Nina will be able to sell it on her Bandcamp (T&G seem to be doing this themselves, and Nina isn't signed with the label anymore), so you might want to check with your local suppliers/online if you want to pick this one up.

New song - Why I Drink

https://theautumnroses.org/2023/10/04/jolie-laide-why-i-drink/

two tracks, in fact, if you click through to the bandcamp link.

Nice surprise today when the postman left the Jolie Liade record in my woodshed - looks like it shipped out at least a couple of weeks early, and from Canada too. Also it looks like they (accidentally?) sent me two copies!

awesome - how is it?

It's pretty great. Languid but surprisingly rough-edged (compared to the two tracks released first). The last track on the second side, Blue as Blue, is a storming closer, and I really like Death of Money and Moves Away Towns too. Definitely got that David Lynch/Lost Highway/Chris Isaak feeling about it. Perfect for this very dark and wild night, which has been punctuated by powercuts.

A few more listens and I'm really enjoying this, even on my incredibly knackered record deck. As mentioned I got an unexpected spare copy - if anyone would like it give me a shout and I can send it out (might be easiest in UK postage-wise).

Can confirm that Jeff (guitarist for Jolie Laide) is shipping out the Bandcamp orders early. Received my copy today, but house is too busy to listen to right now. Maybe later. Also received my copy of the Touch & Go vinyl reissue of The Blackened Air earlier this week, which sounds wonderful.

Ah I forgot about that reissue. Comically, when I try to order it through Touch and Go's site they ship to everywhere - including Pitcairn Island and the Isle of Man - but not the UK.

Ah I was going to joke about "bloody Brexit" - turns out that *is* the reason: "Apologies to all our UK customers, but due to Brexit, we are currently unable to accept orders from the UK.". Enjoying those sunlit uplands!

^ Hey JiffMoose, you had any luck purchasing The Blackened Air reissue? Unfortunately, the place I purchased it has sold out. If you're still having trouble, I'd have no problem purchasing it from Touch & Go and then sending it on to you.

Loving the Jolie Laide record, by the way. If I were to compare it to anything else Nina has done, it'd be Run to Ruin. It's a bit more uptempo than that record, but it has that same sense of dread running throughout. You can never quite get over the feeling that something terrible could happen at any moment. It's quite impressive.

Don't want to give too many spoilers, but "My Darling" is probably the song I replay the most. It's a gorgeous McCartney-esque ballad. Fairly short but very, very pretty.

Thanks Homeostasis - I did manage to track it down at Piccadilly records in the end, but thanks for the kind offer! It arrived on Halloween, and I think playing Ocean far too loud on my haunted record deck might have scared off any trick-or-treaters.

Don't really know Conan Neutron, but this is interesting - 2hr long interview with Nina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H5NYN3iHAE

first listen i am really liking the JL album

Finally got around to watching the interview. Interesting from 1:24:30 where Nina alludes to after Outlaster "there was another record that was a Bear ... if you could see the movie of it you'd see the break down. By the time we tried to do a recording it just didn't work, everything was breaking down at that point, it was just such misery that it wasn't happening. There are some recordings ... I'd have to go through and see what's salvageable, if anything"

Also very affecting on Kennan, with "Handmade Card" being a gift to him that was recorded on one night, "a joyful kind of thing". "He wasn't just one thing".

This is really nice: Nina writing about the influence of her artist father, James: https://www.talkhouse.com/role-models-nina-nastasia-took-more-from-her-father-than-she-realized/
Pennies dropping all over the place for me with "Jim's Room". I was just looking at the illustration from Blackened Air and wondering about it the other day...

New song by the band Mint Mile, Nina does vocals for 1 song on the album "Roughrider", called 'I Hope It's Different'.
you can find it on you tube if you look up Mint Mile I hope It's Different

Mint Mile are ex-Silkworm

Came across Jolie Laide live@cjsw

Blue Is Blue
My Darling
Move Away Towns
Isolation View

july 27, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmvuhxUYo9M

Looks like Nina's been recording in person with Jeff and the band for the new Jolie Laide track/album that's mentioned there (IIRC the first album was done remotely): https://www.picuki.com/profile/ninanastasiaofficial
https://cdn1.picuki.com/hosted-by-instagram/q/0exhNuNYnjBcaS3SYdxKjf8F2vJ1WgxSZ60STLepjSVmIR1vLHOapZA0mpCj4yRwKg5lHDeVeSBk548iWV5SDVQVNEzeSbSKRTdS76ycVuqivDZg859nlbg9KXcaZ3Sn8MAvUGepNWwSDv5PHL||lo79UvOa0LGFq8zCXW||RDmG4CqZL0APIz9Z8j3aqT3Vjm5IolITNev2glIx1l85PZrjQDUufkM8lmpKw5RbgBzPgL6NDtmjHlQD14PVFwFA+QsoicqcFTgDTeJTMJ2naGRf8heRkv1hO+sxtsk7wRvtTyEa9M+N8Z96PUTjtQEjktqBwzwMSCtiXsXm+i+GZQwWTD0+S0QvcEp7bEIsmWZ9jf7SrDfrDhPYtCRW8tVfn3f3XJN7O5ApUPwNkfPasdgRiK||gWCZ7nwgUEoXWxI2w==.jpeg

(sorry for the double-post) but I also hadn't seen this: http://post-trash.com/news/2024/2/20/wrangling-brains-with-jolie-laide-feature-interview. This sort of exchange gives me a lot of joy:

Jeff: He [Clinton St John] was going to be on the first record more, but he was going through a lot of stuff, like divorce.
Nina: Yeah, divorce. Two brains cohabitating, it’s very difficult.
Sam: That’s a lot of brain.
Nina: A lot of brain to wrangle [all laugh]. But also, one brain is not enough! You just can’t go on with one brain, you need more brains.