{"id":20014,"date":"2020-12-13T05:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=20014"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:56:14","slug":"samara-jade-saved-by-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/13\/samara-jade-saved-by-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Samara Jade: Saved by ‘Zero’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Life experiences can inform the creative product of artists in unusual ways. The chamber folk of Samara Jade\u2019s latest album, Zero<\/i>, is in part the result of the circumstances under which it was made. Though some of the songs were written when Jade was living in Asheville, the recording was completed on the West Coast, after a three-day fast, and during a two-month quarantine. And while there\u2019s a meditative and solitary quality to the songs on Zero<\/i>, the album\u2019s overall character is one that celebrates connection with the larger world.<\/p>\n

The lead-off single from Zero<\/i>, \u201cNight\u201d was indeed written late at night, at the end of a fast in Washington State. \u201cI had spent the three reckoning with a lot of my personal shadows, demons, and whatnot,\u201d Jade says, acknowledging that such an activity can be heavy and deep. \u201cBut it\u2019s also a beautiful process,\u201d she emphasizes. The experience helped her realize something: \u201cThe more that I expand my heart into being able to feel grief, the more expanded my capacity is to feel joy and to feel love.\u201d And that duality comes out in Samara Jade\u2019s music.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a writer, I\u2019m also very influenced by place,\u201d Jade says. \u201cBut that doesn\u2019t always come out in the traditional ways.\u201d By way of example, she notes that while \u201cWinged Nut\u201d has \u201can Appalachian, old-timey feel,\u201d it was written in California.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cFor the most part, I do most of my writing in nature and in natural places,\u201d she explains. \u201cThat\u2019s generally where I feel the most connected to source and tuned into my soul.\u201d Jade likes to think of the songs on Zero<\/i> as \u201ca collaboration between myself, my soul, and the land of wherever I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album\u2019s title is a reference to tarot. \u201cThe card for zero in the traditional tarot decks is the The Fool,\u201d Jade explains. She says that the significance of The Fool is often misunderstood. \u201cPeople think of a fool as a negative thing: \u2018You\u2019re being foolish.\u2019 It does have that meaning and that connotation, but on the flip side, The Fool [represents] the energy of spring. It\u2019s the stepping off, the quantum leap into the unknown.\u201d And that embracing of the unknown \u2013 and sometimes unknowable \u2013 is at the heart of Zero<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Jade recorded much of Zero<\/i>\u2019s basic tracks in Asheville, pre-pandemic. But when it came time to overdub instruments to finish the project, she was fortunate to be self-quarantined at what she calls a \u201csanctuary\u201d in Arcata, California. \u201cTwo of the people I was quarantined with happened to play,\u201d she says. \u201cOne was a trombone player and the other played lap steel guitar. I couldn\u2019t have made that up. It was just so perfect, so magical.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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