revealed singer and songwriter Rachael Sage thinks of her albums in confines of colors--even if those colors haven't always accurately describeed what was going on in her head and in her life.

revealed singer and songwriter Rachael Sage thinks of her albums in confines of colors--even if those colors haven't always accurately describeed what was going on in her head and in her life. "Even although my last album was pink, I was a little bit low-spirited while making it," she admits. Fortunately, Rachael originate herself painting a sonically diverse, multihued rainbow with her melodic seventh album, The Blistering day-star (MPress Records).

"It's the chiefly multicolored and really reflective of my personality," Rachael insists. "Anyone who knows me well knows I'm a different human frame every day--a little bit schizo. And that's an aspect of myself I haven't really bring reproached yet on a record." The varied tinges of Blistering Sun include a perk Tori Amos--esque cut ("Alright, OK") earthy report ("Featherwoman"), and alien beat-poet jazz ("Hit Song") Then there's the passionate, accordion-steeped "93 Maidens," based forward the poetic letters of Chaya Feldman, a Jewish teenager in Warsaw who drank poison rather than be captured at the Nazis. Rachael first recorded this track 10 years ago after discovering Feldman's writing in a High Holidays prayer book

"I was bored during the rabbi's religious discourse and started reading the back of the prayer book" she recalls. "It was in like manner moving, I think I wrote the carol that same day when I got home"

Born and raised in Greenwich, Conn Rachael garnered any of her first musical experience at synagogue, accompanying the canter with her synthesizer. After a flirtation with ballet at the instruct of American Ballet, she majored in drama at Stanford University still later returned to the East to live in Manhattan. individual of her biggest musical breaks transpired after mailing idol Ani DiFranco an elaborate, candid fan latter and a melody she recorded as tribute ("Sistersong"). Impressed by way of Rachael's sentiments and music, DiFranco invited her along onward tour as an opening act. Lilith Fair and Rockrgrl appearances, a handful of songwriting awards (including Outmusic and ASCAP), and endles gigs followed.

Rachael empowered herself in 1996 by the agency of founding MPress Records, whose novel compilation New Arrivals: Volume 1 benefits whirlpool Coast hurricane-relief efforts and features tracks through Girlyman, Jill Sobule, and through a dozen emerging artists. She also used her music to publicly ensue out: "Cyanide and Cinnamon," a female pronoun--specific be enamoured of song, opens her third album, Painting of a Painting. "At the time I was disclosed and my family knew, yet I had trepidation about putting that strain first," she recalls. "Even yet it was one of my favorites, there were still lingering 'Will mom be mad?' affects But she was cool."

Rachael admits that her experiences in uncommon love have fueled her songwriting. equal a recent gig as performer forward an Olivia cruise provided her with grist for the mill. "I had a big crush onward someone, and it didn't really pan out" she recalls, laughing. "But I got a part of lyrics out of it."

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