Silence Is Rising Elisabeth Cutler

• 1 No One's Woman 04:05
• 2 The Alchemy of Being Human 04:23
• 3 Table for One 04:37
• 4 Untouchable Man 05:42
• 5 I Had a Dream 04:59
• 6 Awakening 04:37
• 7 A Real Human Being 04:16
• 8 Silence Is Rising 04:17
• 9 Sanctuary 05:05
• 10 My Wildest Dreams 04:55
• Total Runtime 46:56

Info for Silence Is Rising

My lucky number and I’m a lucky girl! This collection of self-penned songs shows the evolution of Elisabeth as an artist, lyricist, and composer; raising the bar to a new energetic level of urban sound, while staying in touch with my acoustic folk roots. I’m happy to be working again with my favorite producer and collaborator, Filippo De Laura, who runs a fun, productive, and successful recording session!

We are pleased to record this portion of the disk in Rome, Italy, at Delta Top Studios, with proprietor Claudio Bartolucci and assistant sound engineer, Marco Cecilia. We have a stellar italian rhythm section featuring Marco Siniscalco (contro bass, fretless electric bass) and Andy Bartolucci (drums). Completing the Italian line-up is our good friend: versatile and tasteful guitarist, Fabiano Lelli, on classical guitar. In addition to an exceptional italian rhythm section, the album features a super special guest guitarist and ambient electronic effects master, Leander Reininghaus, who brings his secret ingredients from Berlin! This recording will be further developed in New York by producer Filippo De Laura. Filippo plays a wonderful collection of hybrid stringed instruments (The Root, Banjola, Chapman Stick), plucked and bowed, to create unique and surprise acoustic sounds.

I am very excited to have this new electronic element by Leander Reininghaus to provide a spacious atmosphere for the emotion of the songs to be transmitted to the audience. Leander and I will be touring and performing live in duo as, “Songs and Sounds“.

Last but not least, a most important presence, the inimitabile and invisible Ari Takahashi capturing our experience live in photos and video. The album is tenatively titled, “Silence is Rising“.

Elisabeth Cutler
In a world of flash and dash, Elisabeth Cutler stands out as the rare artist who combines intimacy, honesty and sophistication in her songwriting and performance. Living in Italy and touring Europe extensively over the past 10 years, Elisabeth was born and raised in North America, honing her craft in her hometown of Boston, and later, Nashville. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Joni Mitchell, Diana Krall, and Norah Jones, Cutler forges her own distinctive and dynamic path, blending elements of folk/jazz/blues.

Critics describe Elisabeth as a dynamic performer and band leader who commands the stage with a rare and engaging honesty. She has graced stages as diverse and prestigious as The Bitter End and CBGB’s Gallery of New York, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and the Kerrville Folk Festival.

Polishing Stones (2015 Beste! Unterhaltung), her latest effort, written in the hills outside Rome, Italy, presents eleven new compositions. Recorded and engineered by producer Filippo De Laura (Slow Release 2009) at his home studio in Rome, as well as One E Music studio, Polishing Stones, reflects Elisabeth’s sentimental life in Europe; in short, the cadences and crescendos of life and love.

Cutler’s warm and engaging voice and proficient guitar work stand front and center on these new songs. Collaborating with Latin and Nordic musician friends, Elisabeth finds her pace while lacing emotion and rhythm in tandem with De Laura’s sympathetic arrangements and soundscape production that both support Cutler’s natural strength and vulnerability; the results are stunning. Polishing Stones is both spare and well-defined, touching on themes of patience and comfort in solitude, dispersed by sensuous and ardent declarations of romantic love; she affectionately calls her genre, ‘My World Music’.

Elisabeth’s spacious guitar-based American sound is well-supported by international musician friends: Mats Hedberg (guitars/Sweden), Massimo Cusato (percussion/drums – Italy), and Ernesto Cossìo (Spanish guitar – Spain).

In Elisabeth’s words, “I feel that the sound and the arrangements of Polishing Stones reflect my love for the guitar and stringed-instruments, as well as my curiosity about cultures and my interest in the romance of the human spirit. We have attempted to make an interesting dialog between the instruments. This album was recorded in Rome relatively quickly and with a sense of careful spontaneity so the results are close to, and adaptable, to a live concert setting where most disks are sold theses days. I am very pleased and satisfied with the collaboration with producer Filippo De Laura and the three other musicians on Polishing Stones.”

This album contains no booklet.