Fontainebleau, Paris Sep 20, 2022 (Issuewire.com) - Hannah Judson’s accomplished songwriting creates a landscape where love plays out, trips up, and moves on. She has gathered her pandemic-era creative works and is releasing singles in front of the album “The Satellite Sessions” coming out later this year. Her original indie lyrics and vocals backed by an international array of supporting musicians make “Calling Out the Name” a fulfilling listening experience. While she has been based in France for the past 15 years, she has not forgotten her Chicago indie rock roots. Twists and turns of Americana, Country, and folk songs meander throughout the song, though the songs are ultimately rocking.
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People call out, to a deity, to their mother, to the person right there in their thoughts, at the moment before they sink into the crisis. This song starts with that call. It was written in the pandemic summer of 2020 when things really began to unravel and explode on both sides of the Atlantic – especially in the US where police brutality, public murders of sons and daughters, and systemic racism were unbottled in front of our eyes. This song comes from that hot, sad summer, right here, in my house, on my street, down my river. World news streaming individual tragedies of people you don’t know but still love, pelted with remarkably regular sirens from ambulances passing, blue lights spinning, taking covid patients from one hospital to another. We were disjointedly united that summer, loving people we can’t protect, solitary, at home.
Hear the song that unites the explosive unraveling and solitary experience of the summer of 2020.
Judson will be performing solo shows this fall in Europe and will hit the US west and east coasts in the spring of 2023.
Calling Out The Name was recorded at Boneyard Records in Sacramento California, and Rhizomatic Studios in Fontainebleau, France. This is the third project she has released with producer JL Espada.
Hannah Judson is a risky, engaging songwriter, constructing ethereal environments where danger and love combat in free fall. These songs lull the listener comfortably out on a ledge to show the view from there, then offer a little tug when it’s time to come back inside. Judson’s songwriting is rooted in the narrative tradition of Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith, and Joan Baez and is seamed with references to seminal artists like Liz Phair, Laura Marling, Alanis Morissette, and Lucinda Williams. Using delicate breathy clicks and pops to create percussive tracks, Hannah Judson’s performance is warm, funny, quirky, and welcoming.
SK Shlomo said “Love this! Dylan meets Martha Wainwright."
Influences from both Chicago and Paris geographies are evident in this collection of original songs. Judson’s lyrically motivated songs are couched in confident electric guitar offered by Banjo Bones and soaring leads by Charlie Galunic. Brian Clevinger’s basslines support and counter the melody and Giorgi Khokhobashvili’s blistering jazz violin shows up on several tracks.
Hannah Judson is an internationally touring American singer-songwriter. She performs original indie folk rock songs that draw her audience into storylines of political, social, and personal power, love, and loss. With electric guitar and percussive vocals, she builds live looping harmonies and rhythmic layers. Hannah’s vocals co-mingle and ring out an intimate setting, with a modern folk sound. Noted as “the real deal” by UK’s country music Maverick Magazine, and “with a style that channels Elliott Smith” by Indie Country FM radio, Hannah has appeared regularly in Paris, throughout Europe, and on the US west coast.
Hannah was active on the alternative music scene in Chicago that circled around the School of the Art Institute (where she studied painting and sound) and Wicker Park in the 90s and early 00s. In Chicago, she was a continuous member of folk, grunge, and alt/rock bands, as a songwriter and lead vocalist. She produced and hosted GrrrlsRock events at Beat Kitchen. In 2014 she founded MUSEfest, an international event to support inspirational women in music, film, and art. In 2018 she started working with Boneyard Records in Sacramento, CA. She is currently the Director of Music for the LA Fashion Festival (LAFF). She recently completed an MBA in the music business at Berklee College of Music/SNHU. She currently performs with Charlie Galunic (Professor, INSEAD) on lead guitar, and Brian Clevinger (Absynth Creator) on bass.
Hannah Judson is originally from Maine and lives in the Paris region, France.
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