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RACHEL GRIMES: "BOOK OF LEAVES"
by George Georgiou (song292@yahoo.gr)






Louisville's pioneers Rachel's introduced a serious part of anxious audiences to the marriage between chamber music and bass, guitar based post rock. Turning back to the legendary season of "Handwriting" and "Music for Egon Schiele", heretic and daring Louisville's bandmates created a special ground where the indie listeners pleasantly discovered the ambient drama of strings arrangments and gazed through their window a new horizon willing to accept also a new serious number of follower bands. Rachel Grimes had always stood behind their unique piano, nailing her net of sensitivity on their final expressive canvas.
Today Rachel Grimes stands for the first time isolated against this same old piano, driving the echo of her own confident result. "Book Of Leaves" moves gently with careful, sensitive steps in a parallel delicate universe. Her naked themes reveal the direct strength of truth when she builds the importance of private isolated moments translated into minimalistic music pieces of limited length. Her piano leaves the allusion of a precious beauty without repeating the discovery of it in an endless stream of duration: finally you accept the comfortable need for turning back again...
In this modest frame of gentle patience, wise piano phrases and field recordings, her first solo album races the path to a storytelling and personal secrets whispering autumn.
Listeners who prefer Michael Nyman and Max Richter can follow the footprints, but after all it is Rachel Grimes and she deserves to face her in this way...