TANIA ALEXANDRA: Emergence

Tania Alexandra

Emergence

© 2003 Tania Alexandra (659057669328)

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Edgy, reflective, and subtly complex, Tania's passionate voice weaves into piano-driven primal grooves creating a collage filled with evocative lyrics, disonant chords, and engaging melodies - both intimate and bold.

tracks

1 Bandaid Solution
2 Creatures
3 The Flow
4 Faces and Places
5 Project Chrysalis
6 Every Once in a While
7 Moment of Me
8 My Home
9 Snowflake Metaphor
10 No Sides

notes

"....THAT VOICE HITS LIKE A THOUSAND CLOCKS STRIKING MIDNIGHT - BOOMING, STRONG, FIERCELY SOLEMN."
-Origivation Magazine

ABOUT TANIA

Tania Alexandra woke up one morning to see a piano taking up most of her bedroom. She was nine, and that piano became her diary.

Immersed in the performing arts and her father's eclectic tastes, she counts The Muppets, Igor Stravinsky, John Coltrane, Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson and Joni Mitchell among her earliest influences. Born and raised amid the beauty of the Colorado mountains, she honed her songwriting in secret while studying music education at Ithaca College, only revealing herself after moving to Philadelphia in 1998.

After recording her debut album "Chrysalis," Tania infused herself into the arts community as a singer-songwriter, music and movement teacher, session vocalist and vocal arranger. Her new release "Emergence" represents both a milestone in her songcraft and a culmination of her experiences as an artist in Philadelphia.


ABOUT THE MUSIC

Propelled to spread creative energy like a colorful weed, Tania Alexandra muses her listeners. Her passionate voice weaves through piano driven primal grooves creating a collage filled with poetic lyrics and engaging melodies. Tania's songs are edgy, evocative, and subtly complex. Some haunting, some playful, some reflective, some bold - her music explores her journey into the connections and emotions in life through generations and over time between people, nature, and love.

ABOUT EMERGENCE
Alternating between rhythmic intensity and subtle
reflection, Tania Alexandra's second full-length CD
finds her piano-driven expressions expanded by a thrilling array of musicians and sounds. Accompanied by new heights of lyrical maturity, dissonant chords give way to fluid melodies, as Tania's evocative explorations
find voice in forms both intimate and bold.

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  • infectious and ethereal all at once
    author: Barbara

    Last week I invited six women to come live with me via cd baby, and Tania is the honored guest. Except she won't be leaving anytime soon. Bandaid Solution, The Flow, and Snowflake Metaphor are the infectious, all able to withstand multiple playings while repeatedly satisfying. I must say about Snowflake, I haven't felt so inspired towards personal individuality since Ani's Pick Yer Nose. This cd is a wonderful collection of stories short and long, easy to love, with some unusual (yet not jarring) arrangements, and the voice... a crystal with sharp edges, able to cut or dazzle with it's shininess. Prepare to be surprised at the diversity, the songs not on sample are more pensive and haunting. No Sides is 14 min. long and will require in no particular order: a glass of wine, an unhurried attitude, and a cluttered mind. The last because with one thoughtful listen it will sweep out all the cobwebs in your dusty corners.

  • Beautiful voice! I really like the Bandaid Solution track.
    author: Randy Skizinski

    This CD has music for every mood. I have really enjoyed listening to it over the last week!

  • Transformative and empowering...
    author: Cassendre Xavier a.k.a. Amethyste Rah

    Emergence has kept me afloat during recent moments of crisis. Some of the songs have lyrics & music which clearly show that Tania was channeling Spirit and in touch with her divinity. Other songs are more human and down to earth, full of the gritty reality of a woman's life, a la Alanis Morisette. Somehow, she manages to convince the listener that we are all together, and that each of us is both divine and human. Both musically and lyrically, this album bursts with variety and brilliance!

  • It is much better to buy this than to not
    author: j.k.

    I agree with another reviewer about the strength of Bandaid Solution as the catchy first number that definitively draws you in. A well-written cd that draws on a seemingly limitless source of influences and comes off completely convincing. I liked the stylistic variances and the cd develops towards the end into a more meditative realm without losing any emotive momentum/focus. A big plus for the Phili music scene!

  • an amazing album
    author: Rand Hubiak

    The opening track alone (Bandaid Solution) is well worth the price of admission here -- the complex rhythms and lyrics, the funky horn section, the subtle hook that ultimately draws you in. But for those of you who insist on solid albums... everything that follows is brilliant too! The musical styles here are diverse, from lush piano ballads to the aforementioned funk, and yet the album is absolutely cohesive with every track woven into a seamless whole.

  • This is the one album to be stranded on a deserted island with.
    author: David March

    I love this album! Tania's voice is an absolutely awe-inspiring instrument. Her songs are beautiful, unique and wonderful. It's just way too good for my small words to describe.

  • one of the most original pieces of music I've heard in years.
    author: Dena Marchiony

    This is one of the most original pieces of music I've heard in years. It's the musical version of a tapestry... lush, rich, intricate, beautiful, woven together with the silken threads of Tania's voice. I haven't been this excited about a CD since Rickie Lee Jones put out her first. Emergence will defy your attempts to catigorize it- simply amazing. Buy it, you'll fall in love!

  • Emergence envokes ecstatic waves of emotion.
    author: Kalindi Conaway

    Emergence is a CD that touches deep levels of the heart and the imagination. It creates waves of emotions that pass through the listener. Highly addicting, it brings chills, tears, laughter and joy.

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