Fiona Silver & Guy Fiumarelli sit down for a One On One Session at City Winery New York on July 20th, 2017. For more info visit: http://www.fionasilver.com Audio & Video by: Ehud Lazin
Setlist:
Smoking Gun
Nightclubbing
Take Me Down
I'll Follow You
Fiona Silver’s songs unfold like grainy film noir vignettes strewn with anachronistic stylistic signifiers, captivating narratives, and raw emotionality. The New York-based singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer calls her debut album Little Thunder. Fiona’s album comes from a swirling storm within—it’s a masterstroke that is both vulnerable and badass.
“This music is a direct line to my heart; within these songs there is a longing to connect,” she reveals.
Fiona’s evocative artistry encompasses the doe-eyed playfulness of 1960s girl groups, and the haunting beauty of Lady Day-era jazz, along with strains of vintage soul, classic rock, and modern indie rock. It’s a romantic aesthetic of pour-your-heart-out proportions that also harnesses humor, irony, and an alluring naiveté.
Fiona has garnered acclaim from NPR’s All Things Considered, Rodney Bingenheimer (aka "The Mayor of Sunset Strip") on both Sirius XM & KROQ FM Radio, Paste Magazine, Galore Magazine, Ladygunn Magazine, Magnet Magazine, Inked Magazine, Glamour, Black Book, Quiet Lunch, Spindle, Music Existence, Pop Dust, Good Music All Day, Break Thru Radio TV, Ukulele Magazine, Pure Volume, Culture Collide, Examiner, and Curve Magazine, among others. With her pinup girl panache and seductive charm, she’s mesmerized audiences nationally. A cross section of live highlights include performances at Austin's Barracuda, the world famous Whisky a Go Go and The Hi Hat in Los Angeles, the rooftop of the iconic Georgia Theatre, as well as residencies at The Gramercy Park Hotel and Ace Hotel in New York. Fiona also has the added distinction of being endorsed by both Reverend Guitars & Luna Guitars.
Little Thunder is a poetic and poignant collection of cinematic soul-pop and shakin’-from-the-hips garage rock. The seven-song’s lead single, “Take Me Down,” boasts echo-drenched guitars, an infectious Motown-vibing bassline, and Fiona’s stunning vocal phrasing. Here, she traverses weary lover coolness, hope, and heartbreak. The track’s narrative is intriguingly veiled, alluding to drugs and co-dependency to illuminate a perspective on being powerlessly in love.
Fiona’s seductive lost puppy innocence imbues “I’ll Follow You.” This track comes off like a golden ballad beamed into a cherry red 57 Chevy from a lost radio transmission. On the simmering “Keep it Fresh,” she lays out a treatise on post-breakup empowerment over an undeniably funky beat. The album concludes with the chilling David Lynch-esque “Smoking Gun,” a masterful done-wrong revenge narrative that evokes Ennio Morricone and swampy goth-poets The Gun Club.
Fiona, who is a gifted big picture conceptualist, co-produced the album with Erin Tonkon, an on-the-rise producer who has worked with such artists as David Bowie and Esperanza Spalding. Grammy-nominated mastering engineer Emily Lazar, of David Bowie, Foo Fighters, Lou Reed, and Morrissey fame, put the final sonic touches on the album. I didn’t go in wanting to make a ‘girl power’ album’,” Fiona says laughing. “For me, it came down to who intuitively understood the music.”
Pondering the aftermath of Little Thunder, Fiona says: “I hope I can take people on a journey with these songs where they can feel the range of emotions we can access, the darkness, sadness, thrills and joy. That’s how we all connect.”
