Jaggery’s “Private Violence” and the Fine Art of Murder
Great music often comes from great literature. Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas, based on Virgil’s Aeneid, is one example. Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Welcome to the Pleasuredome, inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” is another. Jaggery’s latest release, Private Violence, carries on the tradition with a collection of songs singer Mali Sastri wrote after reading Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.
An impressively beautiful new EP from Jaggery. This album is based loosely on Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. At only 25 minutes stretched tightly over 5 tracks, Jaggery has transcended the traditional sense of a concept album by surpassing its source material in terms of its own existence. The lead singer’s lyrics are incredibly deep and often discomforting, adding to the unsettling nature of the music. The band is in top form weaving jazz, chamber music, and avant garde pop into a tapestry of aural expression that leaves you yearning for more. Don’t miss this…
link: http://www.moosickrevoos.com/2012/11/jaggery-private-violence.html
Some things in this world are simply too beautiful and unique to invite comparison. You may be thinking of your first love, the passing of a comet, deep-fried Oreos or Britney Spears, but let me point you in the direction of Jaggery, a Boston-based musical ensemble that blurs the boundaries between genres and takes its audience on a happily delirious, and wholly unpredictable, jaunt through them all.
When singer/pianist Mali Sastri performs with her art-rock combo Jaggery, her voice conjures personas from haunting siren to primal demon. She traces that range to voice movement therapy.
Years ago I heard the two debuts of chamber-folkpop band Jaggery. We are a few albums down the line now and the foundations are still recognizable.
These are dreamy music makers. Beyond dreamy; Requiem for a Dream dreamy. A mess of insanely well-modulated vocals, viola, upright bass, harp, piano and drums, Jaggery produces delicate tunes that leave you somewhere you weren’t quite expecting to be.
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