Yesterday I said goodbye to my best friend, long time partner in crime and hero, Jessi Zazu Wariner. Zazu’s bandmates posted the following statement on Facebook:įrom the desk of Linwood and Those Darlins HQ: In the YouTube video in which she announced her medical diagnosis and ensuing chemotherapy and radiation treatments, Zazu shaved her hair off, saying that it was a way to “celebrate this new chapter.” The original diagnosis was cervical cancer caused by papillomavirus, or HPV, which then metastasized. Of her illness, NPR recalled: “In December 2016, she first publicly shared her diagnosis, which had come shortly after Those Darlins disbanded at the end of 2015. “I can’t think of a more captivating performer–she’s the real deal.” “Zazu is a singer of heart, soul and muscle,” he went on. “They played country music with smarts, sophistication and nerve,” SEM’s Matt Sloan observed after taking in a Chicago gig several years ago. Zazu, who was just 28, succumbed to cervical cancer Sept 12.Īlthough the Nashville band called it a day over a year ago, over the course of their decade-long career, they put out three fabulous albums, the last one being 2013’s Blur The Line. Richardson provides examinations into womanhood, otherness and the concept of autonomy.Jessi Zazu, the lead singer of the beloved indie rock country outfit has died. That sunny, jangly influence makes an appearance in her songs, combined with her electronic sensuality and a bluesy sensibility. After learning to sing and play the piano and guitar, she discovered a deep passion for songwriting - something that still serves as a powerful tool for discovering herself and carving out a space in the world.Īs an adult, Richardson headed west, honing her style in Northern California. From her childhood bedroom in small-town Ohio, Richardson found a first spark of connection through her love of music. Daughter of Angela Kaset.īecca Richardson has always navigated uncertain spaces.Īs a mixed-race daughter in middle America, someone always feeling “just left of inside,” the questions surrounding what it means to belong and connect have long been on her mind. Savoy Motel will be touring North America and the UK in support of their self-titled debut album on What's Your Rupture.Īmerican punk rock singer and musician, grew up in Cottontown, Tennessee. "The past turned its back on us, so we had to turn our backs on the past in order to find our future." "Whatever musical past we had feels obsolete compared to what we're doing now," says Jeffrey. If it was that easy, though, everybody else would be doing it. The whole package opens up their horizons, and yours, to a sound made by four friends tired of witnessing music eat its own tail with unclouded judgment, creative refinements, and peerless technique, they grab that tail and stick it into a wall socket, putting the cap back on 15+ years of rock revivalism and strident genre adherence. I think we were all ready for something radical and new, and Jeffrey was ready to lead us there." Dillon remarks: "After Jeffrey repeatedly insisted that I play more and more like Jimi and Clapton, I realized that he wanted the shit to rock, and that he was not only unafraid of, but actually going for what a lot of contemporaries would consider faux pas. Savoy Motel achieves a compositional harmony through the meshing of the clockwork precision in the rhythms of each song, with Jessica hammering out the beats alongside a vintage Rhythm King drum machine, and Mimi locking in on guitar, alongside the interplay of three lead vocalists, while Dillon rips intense fuzz leads on every track, and Jeffrey adds the hooks on his bass. "Savoy Motel is defined more by a feeling than a sound." ![]() "We use rock and roll as a vehicle to reach and promote the feeling of TOTAL FREEDOM," claims Dillon. Savoy Motel transposes the energy and hooks of those groups to an entirely different move: an intensely orchestrated hybrid of glam rock, soul, dance music, and showmanship. The debut album by this Nashville four-piece comes from a pedigree of garage, punk, and power-pop groups (bassist Jeffrey Novak founded both Cheap Time and the Rat Traps drummer Jessica McFarland was also in Cheap Time, and along with guitarists Dillon Watson and Mimi Galbierz, played in Heavy Cream). From Hank Williams to The Rolling Stones, she says, “I’ve always been more inspired by what others have done.” ![]() ![]() Growing up in Nashville to music industry parents (her mother, Liz Rose, is a songwriter who found success working with artists like Taylor Swift, Leann Womack and others), Rose inherited her mother’s “inclination towards melody –the ability to naturally know where melody could and should go” early on and again credits her love of songwriting to a long list of influences, many of which would be easily found in either of her parents record collections.
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