Diverse - DIV047LP - 180 gram Virgin Vinyl
Mastered by Ray Staff at Air - Download
Pressed at Pallas Germany - Limited Edition
In 2003 Paulusma was happily putting the finishing touches to shed-recorded debut album ‘Scissors in my Pocket’ when Bjork’s label One Little Indian signed her up and catapulted her round the world for six years, supporting Bob Dylan, Jamie Cullum, Joseph Arthur, Coldplay and many others.
Uncut Magazine gave Scissors In My Pocket **** calling her “the finest young female British singer-songwriter to emerge over the last 12 months” (in a year that saw Amy Winehouse and Joss Stone step into the limelight). The Independent heralded her “the most literate songwriter of her generation”. Over the pond, Nic Harcourt from LA’s prestigious KCRW radio show The Morning Becomes Eclectic called Scissors… “the best album from the UK this year”.
Veteran Canadian DJ Howard Mandshein dubbed her “the best British female singer-songwriter in a decade”. Released in 2007, her second album Fingers & Thumbs was a heartfelt cry for help after a series of miscarriages. It was a difficult and very personal album, driven predominantly by an electric sound. Recorded live in Liverpool over five weeks with acclaimed producer Ken Nelson (Coldplay, Kings of Convenience, Gomez, Badly Drawn Boy) it captured a much darker side to Paulusma’s personality.
In 2012 (and two children later), Paulusma now releases her third album, Leaves from the Family Tree. She is founder of label Wild Sound and the proud owner of a caravan called Ella (to make touring with her young family a possibility – but only in the school holidays!).
On this joyful third album, she has e-collaborated with folk heroes Adem and Erin McKeown, rock violin diva Anna Phoebe and acclaimed film composer Michael Price of recent Sherlock fame, combining recordings from her garden shed, Pinewood Studios, and everywhere in between to create an insightful representation of the joys and complications of modern family life.
Personnel:
Polly Paulusma - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, rhodes, organ, mellotron, mandolin.
Rastko Rasic - drums, additional percussion.
John Parker - double bass.
Additional personnel:
Neil Cowlan - additional guitar on Last Week Me & Most Of It
Harry Harris - additional mandolin on Last Week Me
Adem Ilhan - Additional poulet on Last Week Me
Erin McKeown - backing vocals on Lynch Pin
Piers Partridge - ukelele on Most Of It
Anna Pheobe - violin on Last Week Me
String Quartet
Conducted by Michael Price
Nick Ward - violin 1
Ralph De Souza - violin 2
Garfield Jackson - viola
Caroline Dale - cello
Produced by Polly Paulusma
Mixed by Dave Moore
Mastered by Cass Irvine
Mastered for vinyl by Ray Staff
Pressed at Pallas, Germany.
Tracklisting:
1. Last Week Me
2. Blood-Red Coat
3. Hallelujah
4. Story Of My Life
5. Most Of It
6. Two Houses
7. Don't Ask Me
8. Ocean
9. Lynch Pin
10. All Is Well
11. Wedding Day
12. Take Me Home
13. Don't Ask Me (Radio Edit)
