Raindance Odelet

• 1 Know It All 03:09
• 2 Dirge 03:04
• 3 Be Still 02:44
• 4 Raindance 02:51
• 5 Jezebel 02:54
• 6 Bayou 03:35
• 7 Think It Over 02:53
• 8 Up Up and Away 03:10
• 9 Wake Up Call 03:17
• 10 Sands of Time 03:00
• Total Runtime 30:37

Info for Raindance

Detroit-born and California-based, Odelet is building a whole damn universe. Her latest album, Raindance, is a dreamy plunge into what she fittingly calls “Surrealist R&B.” This thing doesn’t sit still in any one genre. It floats, glides, and sometimes slithers through hazy vocals, lush keys, and dub-influenced rhythms. And just when you think she’s done, she drops a full remix companion album, Raindance In Dub, steeped in the warm, echo-laden grooves of 1970s-style dub. Two sides of the same storm.

The album kicks off with “Know It All,” a slow burn with splashing cymbals and thumping drums that hooks you early. Odelet’s voice is thick, slurred, and soaked in feeling, like she’s singing from some misty memory she’s only half willing to revisit. And then comes “Raindance,” the emotional core of the album. Here, her voice dips into something deeper, more melancholic. It’s like you’ve stumbled into her inner monsoon, and she’s just letting it pour.

But she doesn’t stay in the sadness. By the time “Up, Up and Away” rolls in at the eighth track, things have lightened. A gentle piano sets the tone while she lets loose her “Aaaa”s like she’s lying in the grass with nothing on her mind but the sky. She sings with a carefree tone, “You know I am really living, I think that this is giving,” urging us to free ourselves from this capitalist grind trap we call life.

Odelet’s been on a roll lately, and “Raindance” is just one piece of her ambitious 6-album release arc this year. Backed by her indie label/production house “Everlasting Tape” and mixed by Tape Op’s Larry Crane, the album feels lovingly crafted, never rushed. With music, visuals, and even a film-scoring art docuseries in the mix, Odelet’s flooding the scene with something truly her own — and we’re lucky to be in the downpour.

Odelet

Odelet
is a multi-faceted artist born in Detroit, MI, currently based on the west coast. Her unique writing style draws inspiration from every corner of music, dissolving the lines between genre. More than just a gifted singer and songwriter, Odelet is also a producer, writing and performing nearly all her own instrumentation. Her experimental music visuals have been selected for screening in more than fifty film festivals internationally and won numerous awards. This is truly a creator working without boundaries...

In 2021 Odelet and long time partner Jack "riddim" formed a production company, the goal of which would be to create a sound worthy of Odelet's otherworldly writing. They called this endeavor Everlasting Tape, a title they also gave to their documentary series which explores the art of film scoring. Since then Everlasting Tape has produced three studio albums for Odelet, with this summer marking the fourth, and fifth installments, Raindance and Raindance in Dub.

Raindance was originally written as the follow up to The Angels Album of 2022, but after a technical issue in the studio halted the final recording of the project, Odelet turned her attention to the creation of her first digital album. Raindance was then set on the shelf during the recording and release of Pisces Pie. Still flying high off of the success of this release, Odelet and Everlasting Tape quickly turned their attention back to completing Raindance, and it was then that they found a very special addition to the team in legendary mixing/recording engineer Larry Crane. Larry's resume is impressive, including highlights like being founder/co-owner/editor of Tape Op Magazine, as well as the official archivist for the family of Elliott Smith, and founder and owner of Jackpot! Recording Studio in Portland, OR, one of the great studios of our time and the mixing room behind all of the upcoming Odelet releases. While working with Larry on the mix of Raindance, he continuously exceeded all expectations, delivering a beautifully understated mix of the album, as well as taking part in the creation of a long-planned-for remix series, presented in a 1970's "Dub" style, for which Larry turned out to be uniquely qualified. The resulting, now double album, Raindance and Raindance in Dub, comes out in July of this year. Thanks to her teams' heroic efforts, in the space of a single year which began in April with Angels (Revived), Odelet plans to release a total of an astounding six albums. This new flood of material continues to explore the hither-to unheard of genre being created by Odelet, dubbed "Surrealist R&B".

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