Album Notes

"The Musician is Terran's third album, but strangely enough it has the innocence of a debut. The compositions are fluent and playful, both rough and soft. Terran produced and mixed everything herself, but has succeeded in preventing that the spontaneity of her music was killed by perfectionism. At some point Tori Amos had that same gift, but in the meantime she has become a phenomena… Let's hope that Jennifer Terran will never become world famous."
PLATOMANIA
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Terran’s highly personal, inventive music and achingly beautiful voice has inspired rave responses from music lovers and publications all over the world (Telerama, Uncut, Rolling Stone, Oor etc.). Her albums have made several top-ten lists including “Second Best Album of the Year” in the Times of London.

The Musician is continuing to get great recognition: * FOUR STARS in Rolling Stone; Best Album of the Year (Heaven Magazine); 2nd Best Album of the year in The Times (London)(Read more press stuff below)

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THE MUSICIAN - BY JENNIFER TERRAN
"The Musician is like a play within a play. It is a concept record, moving beyond the tradition of slapping a bunch of songs on a CD and calling it an album. It is comprised of music that belongs together, with a picture being painted, with a story being told. It's a multi-leveled entity to be uncovered and felt, with the use of time and reflection by you, the listener.

Those of you who are looking for instant food, just add water and go, Britney Spears whatever kind of music, I'm probably not for you. But who knows. I'll let you figure that one out. All I know is that my job is to dig down deep and put it out there, naked, real... no bullshit, just my honest truth and my total love, expressed to my best ability through the music.

For two years I stopped doing public performances and promotion. As an independent artist, I had gotten to the point where the job of getting the music out there was getting in the way of me creating and playing the music. So I decided to disappear from view, get back to what was real and put all my energy into making a recording that would really speak for me. And that is essentially what went down.


I spent two years reading technical manuals, asking a zillion stupid questions to everyone who seemed to know anything about recording engineering- and through much perseverance, I recorded, mixed and completed The Musician at home... in my own creative space... and on my own terms. Happily modern technology was making it possible for me to get better results sonicly than what I had captured in the finest recording studios paying top dollar. But most importantly by recording at home, I was able to express my own vision... my own painting, stroked and detailed by my own hand in a very personal way. And that is something that the best engineers and producers in the world couldn't have done for me.

The songs weren't played for anyone except for the musicians on the album as I was recording them. Whether good nor bad, I didn't want to be burdened or distracted by peoples' opinions. I just wanted The Musician to be pure and to simply present my own vision... so it made sense to rely on my own intuition to guide it.

Anyway, the journey of making the album was a very good one- sometimes paved with bliss and inspiration, sometimes paved with utter hell and sadness. And if I seem overly dramatic here, I'm sorry, but what can I say. I had never worked this hard for anything in my whole life! My drive and commitment to making this CD was ridiculous high. I suppose, because I knew I was getting down to what was really important to me in this world. And I knew I was engaged in something very special, if not for just myself, but for the people who could potentially understand.

But enough of that. The real point now is that The Musician is finished, to be praised or rejected, ignored or adored. It's out there. It's done. And I hope it reaches you."

Jennifer Terran
November 20, 2000

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PRESS QUOTES
(complete articles at www.jenniferterran.com)

"Endowed with a voice or heartbreaking purity and melodic talent, Jennifer Terran will most likely rise rapidly to the level of the greats.”
TELARAMA (Paris, France)

#1Best Album of the Year
"I'd gladly trade in all my Tori Amos CDs for Jennifer Terrans' "THE MUSICIAN"
HEAVEN MAGAZINE

“All of you wondering whether Kate Bush is going to release another album or it Tori Amos will ever make another record as good as her debut can stop bothering with such side issues. Here’s the album you’ve been waiting for. Astonishing!”
2nd BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR
THE TIMES (London, UK)

"Breathtaking... timeless... pure... monumental.... Categorizing Jennifer Terran is impossible. Terran is a style of her own."
OOR MAGAZINE – (Netherlands)

"Haunting and intense, she sounds like a rawer version of Tori Amos. But Terran possesses a uniquely fierce and uncommon uncompromising voice"
UNCUT - (London, UK)

Top 10 CDs: “Terran is a breathtaking singer. Her vocal innuendos are pure, free of the mannerism of a lot of contemporary female colleagues."
FOCUS - (Belgium)

FOUR STARS!
ROLLING STONE - (Germany)

"Jennifer Terran is an unusual, very unusual kind of artist and quite a woman! A truly magnificent Film Noire Diva and a world-class songwriter-singer. This woman is unique, captivating vocalist, pianist, tenderly rebellious songwriter, producer by raison d'etre and necessity, hip-hop dynamic instructor and dancer, story-teller, an existentialist philosopher, an emotionally and intellectually charged teaser and provocative presence and most certainly a daring-devil entrepreneur."
HERALD TIMES PARADE – (London, UK)

"Not everybody can be both scary and vulnerable; Jennifer Terran (pronounced tearin') can. The scary part is her voice, which spirals into regions so high you fear she'll disappear or crash, and lately it has acquired a diamond-dust edge that can saw through a stack of hearts, first of all her own."
LA WEEKLY – (USA)

"If Jennifer Terran has a voice as much incomparable as unforgettable, it is because she is also that in real life. Her authentic and sensual voice awakes up in us emotions so deep inside that thinking of it makes nearly crying of pain or joy,
as if truth had a price."
MURMURES – (Switzerland)


The Musician: #1 BEST ALBUM OF 2002
"Terran is an extraordinary USA singer/songwriter and THE MUSICIAN places her firmly in the top echelon of her craft. This is remarkable pop music, and one of 2002's few essential albums"
SHAKENSTIR - (UK)


"The Musician is Terran's third album, but strangely enough it has the innocence of a debut. The compositions are fluent and playful, both rough and soft. Terran produced and mixed everything herself, but has succeeded in preventing that the spontaneity of her music was killed by perfectionism. At some point Tori Amos had that same gift, but in the meantime she has become a phenomena… Let's hope that Jennifer Terran will never become world famous."
PLATOMANIA – (Netherlands)

"Pure, that was this concert in one word. No setlist, no décor, only a small lady, with a voice like a storm behind the piano”
STORYVILLE MAGAZINE – (Netherlands)

"The music of Jennifer Terran is so beautiful it hurts."
CULTURE – (Netherlands)

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