NEW SINGLE "FLOATING" by Jolie Goodnight and Fred de Fred
FLOATING
new single by Jolie Goodnight & Fred de Fred
FLOATING
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Once upon a time I collaborated with a dear friend Fred de Fred on this song, called “Floating”. Fred de Fred is the unequivocal Minervois French king of genre-crossing electro, having experimented and created numerous forms of music; Dance Floor with the Electronic Scene (Sarah Jay of Massive Attack, I Monster), World Music (Buddha Bar, Ekova, and the list goes on and on. His music and his personality are both a bright light in the foothills of the South of France. Produced by my insanely talented, musical genius brother, Gabriel Rhodes, “Floating” has been patiently waiting to be released, like a bubble waits to float in the air!
At the time I wasn’t ready to let the sound waves of “Floating” bubble through the galaxy, because I hadn’t yet learned how to turn grief and fear into joy. I hadn’t yet learned that you can be happy and sad at the same time. I didn’t know yet that loss is actually transformative, not limiting. I hadn’t learned yet that you need to hear joy when all your heart feels is sorrow. At the time we produced this I was experiencing tremendous loss and I didn’t know yet that I could learn how to shine, no matter how tremendously hard grief tries to dull your inner glow. I hadn’t learned that the moon shines just as brightly as the sun, only the moon has the strength to shine in the dark.
But the time to release “Floating” is right now, because I know so many of you are exhausted beyond reason. I know you deserve light. And so from Fred de Fred and me, here is a petit gift of an opulent, 60s French Yé-Yé happy, song that will hopefully deliver a haute yet lo-fi glow, like a reflective peal. We hope that this song transforms your day, your week, your grief, your sorrow…even if just for a few minutes.
With much joy, empathy, and shimmery, glittery love,
About the Artists:
Jolie Goodnight is a creative tour-de-force, an international showgirl singer who is, “…steamy and seductive in a lovably old fashioned way.” (Knoxville News.) Hailing back to the days of old Hollywood glitz and glamour, Jolie Goodnight has dazzled audiences around the world with classic fan dances and sensational singing. Hailed as “… a tender voice that could melt a stone heart,” (MOJO Magazine) Luxuriating always in a performer’s life, she is also the bandleader and singer for rockabilly band, Jolie and The Jackalopes, as well as Jolie Goodnight & Her Swing Band. Something Else Reviews describes her as “exactly the kind of voice us vocal jazz lovers hope to hear from the new generation."
Fred de Fred is the unequivocal Minervois French king of genre-crossing electro having experimented and created numerous forms of music; Dance Floor with the Electronic Scene (Sarah Jay of Massive Attack, I Monster), World Music (Buddha Bar, Ekova,) Country Music (Willie Nelson, Kimmie Rhodes) recorded an album in Texas on the poetry of the dandy of the crime “Lacenaire,” put in music the nouvelles érotiques of writer Maïna Lecherbonnier, co founded a neo-burlesque duo with Marion Benoist, and Bruno Bouche “ "d'Incidences Chorégraphiques "de l'Opéra de Paris.
Produced by Gabriel Rhodes, an American folk and country music musician and producer based in Austin, Texas. Perhaps best known as an electric and acoustic guitar player, Rhodes is a multi-instrumentalist who has also performed and/or recorded playing piano, dobro, bass, theremin, and percussion. He has produced and recorded projects for Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Kimmie Rhodes, Waylon Jennings, Ray Price, Emmylou Harris, James Burton, Jimmy LaFave, Owen Temple, Paula Nelson, Dick Rivers, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Kieran Goss, Folk Uke, and Calvin Russell, among others. He has contributed to more than 17 nationally distributed albums in the last ten years.[3] He also contributed production duties to Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster, which won a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album in 2005.
“Floating” by Jolie Goodnight and Fred de Fred is for fans of: Dream pop, Ambient pop, Film Baby, 60s French Pop, Lo fi indie, dream pop, French pop, bedroom pop, indie pop, aesthetic, paradise, tropical, exotica, tropicalia, exotica, retro pop, Yé-Yé
a playlist to celebrate the release
an opulent dream pop, 60s French Yé-Yé influenced, happy playlist
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