Album Notes

Joni is based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, where she is known for her piano driven ballads and old-soul singing. After spending five years in London, she moved back to the US where she rapidly built up a following due to her engaging performances. She has played to sold out houses at The Mystic Theater in Petaluma, supporting Aimee Mann, and at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, supporting k.d. lang.

Joni's musical influences include Kate Bush, Bill Callahan, Maria Callas, Nick Cave, Chopin, PJ Harvey, Laura Nyro, Will Oldham, Nina Simone, Sparklehorse, the Tindersticks and Tom Waits.

John Beck at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat writes:

"Her debut collection of nine piano-driven ballads has more in common lyrically with Nick Cave or Sparklehorse, but its Bessie Smith or Nina Simone who come to mind... because she carries the same weight..."

"Her own songs, often layered with the spiritual tone of a hymn and or lullaby, find a welcome home for recurring religious allusions from baptismal flooding to the duality of man."

20 January 2006