I don’t know… except my communication with myself, the earth and its beings is getting weirder every day. It seems as if I could replace all the shit in my head, my troubles relating to humans back to the earth and its beings’ trouble relating back to me. I think that’s what this record is about.
Released in February 2013, No Elephants is Lisa Germano’s tenth studio album and is her most recent. Recorded in both her home studio and Jamie Candiloro’s studio, the album uses found sounds in nature, iPhone field recordings, and subtle instrumentation to create a record that serves as a minimalist meditation on disconnection—from nature, from one another, and from ourselves.
Sparse, glitchy, and deeply atmospheric, the No Elephants is driven as much by silence and static as it is by melody. It finds Germano continuing her singular path of sonic vulnerability, even as she moves into broader, more universal themes.
Released: February 12, 2013
Label: Badman Recording Co.
Format: CD
Country: US
Availability: Buy Now
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruminants | 3:20 |
| 2 | No Elephants | 4:25 |
| 3 | Apathy and the Devil | 2:38 |
| 4 | Back to Earth | 1:39 |
| 5 | Haunted | 2:51 |
| 6 | A Feast | 3:24 |
| 7 | Up in the Air | 2:44 |
| 8 | Dance of the Bees | 2:05 |
| 9 | Diamonds | 3:38 |
| 10 | …And So On | 2:30 |
| 11 | Last Straws for Sale | 3:21 |
| 12 | Strange Bird | 2:31 |
Packaging & Design
Personnel
All songs written and performed by Lisa Germano (and some bees, cell phones, and a bunch of animals)
Jamie Candiloro: Drum loops and unearthly sounds
Sebastian Steinberg: Acoustic bass
Produced, recorded and mixed by Jamie Candiloro at Banana Chicken Studios.
Mastered at Marcussen Mastering by Stephen Marcussen
All songs written by Lisa Germano
Artwork and photography by Lizzy Waronker
Executive produced by Betty and Rocco Germano
Published by Emotional Wench Music
Press Release
We are excited to release a new album from seminal artist Lisa Germano. Lisa is known to a worldwide fan cult for a series of savagely honest and musically intrepid solo albums that commenced in the early ’90s for the 4AD label, including the cynical debut Happiness in 1994 and the sexual-warfare-running-amok Geek the Girl, also from ’94 (which was included in Spin’s top 100 records of the 1990s).
Also known as a multi-instrumentalist with such diverse artists as Eels, David Bowie, Crowded House, Philip Selway (Radiohead), Indigo Girls, John Mellencamp and Giant Sand.
Like her other nine albums, no elephants is made like a book to read to the end. There is foreshadowing from melodies and ideas that weave the record’s story together, and it takes time and imagination from the reader/listener. Few people these days take the time to make or listen to an album created as a whole piece, but no elephants is short and worthy of the attention paid. “Making a record any other way doesn’t work for me,” she says.
