Eliana Glass
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Sun 22 Nov 202614:30 - 16:00Bimhuis
Eliana Glass is an Australian-American singer and pianist based in New York. Her sparse, meditative music captures the condensation of everyday life. On her debut album E, her distinctive low voice and restrained piano playing immediately set the tone. Her influences are weaved freely throughout the recordings. For example, Dreams is a take on Annette Peacock’s track of the same name, Sing Me Softly the Blues is a reimagination of Carla Bley’s jazz standard with lyrics adapted by Norwegian vocalist Karin Krog, and Emahoy is a tribute to Ethiopian pianist, composer, and nun Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.
Glass is a graduate of The New School where she studied jazz voice with such mentors as Kris Davis, Jay Clayton, Andrew Cyrille and Ben Street. Eliana Glass learned to play the piano by ear as a child. During her studies, she started writing her own songs, and during the pandemic she felt drawn to the piano again. E was recorded with the help of specialized analog equipment in various studios with producer Francis Harris and engineer Bill Skibbe, who has worked with Steve Albini and Jack White.
‘The music sounds ageless, but her perspective as a singer-songwriter is subtly contemporary’ (Pitchfork)
