In the Maybe World

A record about honoring death and seeing life.
Seems like a last record… but feels like a new beginning.

Released in July 2006 by Young God Records, In the Maybe World is Lisa Germano’s eighth studio album, and arguably her most cohesive work of ambient dream-folk. With minimalist instrumentation, fragile vocals, and elliptical lyrics, the record feels like it was made to soundtrack the in-between spaces of life—the moments of disconnection, memory, and slow reckoning.

The album received some of the best reviews of her career and briefly charted on the U.S. Billboard Heatseekers chart, a first for Germano.

Following the soft melancholy of Lullaby for Liquid Pig, Germano continued working under the wing of Michael Gira’s Young God Records. In the Maybe World was recorded in her home studio and in New York with longtime collaborators. It reflects a period of introspection following personal losses, and many of the songs quietly confront the presence—or absence—of death.

Germano has said the album explores “the space between being and not being,” and it plays like a companion piece to grief. Despite the heaviness of the themes, there’s a warmth to the record—a strange lightness that hints at peace through surrender.

Released: July 25, 2006
Label: Young God Records
Format: CD
Country: US
Availability: Buy Now

No.	Title	Length
1	The Day	1:51
2	Too Much Space	2:53
3	Moon in Hell	3:29
4	Golden Cities	2:53
5	Into Oblivion	4:10
6	In the Land of Fairies	2:38
7	Wire	1:35
8	In the Maybe World	2:09
9	Red Thread	3:35
10	A Seed	1:54
11	Except for the Ghosts	3:01
12	After Monday	3:20

Packaging & Design

The artwork found within the album feature a number of beautiful paintings by the late Francesca Sundsten.

Personnel

Sebastian Steinberg:
Bass on tracks 2, 4, 10, 12

Joey Waronker:
Drums on tracks 8, 9, 12

Brady Michaels:
Guitar on track 2

Craig Ross:
Guitar on track 4

Johnny Marr:
Guitar on tracks 5, 7

Engineered by Jim Spencer
Distributed by Revolver USA

All songs written by Lisa Germano except “Golden Cities” by Miamo-tutti

Press Release

I am incredibly proud and pleased to announce the release of Lisa Germano’s new album on Young God Records. I have been a fan of Lisa’s music for years. Her songs are impossibly poignant and often heartbreakingly beautiful. She’s a great lyricist and singer but also an extremely talented multi-instrumentalist.

She plays violin, piano/keyboards and guitar with equal authority, as well as producing her own records with great imaginative effect – the result is seductive and truly magical. No one sounds like her. You get the feeling you’re walking through her dreams as you listen. The intensity of feeling in her singing is a little frightening sometimes – it’s like she’s singing very close to your ear, leading you through her ultra emotional world. It’s a place I very much enjoy visiting, and I hope you will too.

Lisa began releasing her music in the 90’s, first on Capitol Records, and then several more albums through 4AD. Perhaps most notable among them were the fantastic Geek, The Girl, and Excerpts From A Love Circus. These records created a very special “antique”, lost carnival atmosphere – extremely personal, simultaneously self-effacing and confrontational missives of emotional damage and impossible love. She received a fair amount of acclaim at the time in publications ranging from independent-oriented fanzines and magazines and on to Spin, Rolling Stone, etc. In 2003 Lisa released the absolutely beautiful and wrenching audio journey Lullaby For Liquid Pig, featuring woozy paeans to alcohol, fantasy landscapes and out-of-focus dreams. Her side projects/collaborations include the album OP8 (with Giant Sand and Calexico) in which she is the featured singer, and diverse hired side-person stints with David Bowie, Neil Finn, John Mellencamp, Simple Minds, Iggy Pop, Sheryl Crow and others. As an artist/performer, in my opinion, she’s right up there with the cadre of strong, emotionally raw challenging and original women singers such as PJ Harvey, Maryanne Faithful, Cat Power and Bjork, and it’s about time Lisa had her due. in the maybe world features some of Lisa’s best songs to date. Typically, her (self) production and arrangements are inventive and completely unique, the words cut right to the core and her voice carries you gently off into a world where the distinctions between beauty, loss, love and pain tend to blur. The songs are immediately gratifying and sensual, but are also ultimately complicated and reward repeated listening. I hope you enjoy the music!

— Michael Gira, Young God Records