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What?? You don’t have a clue about who she is??? Man!!
(for my concern, I met her as the support act for Sarah Mclachlan on November 2005, she was so amazing and came to signed her first album “Flutterby” after her performance, great souvenir!)
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Here’s a recap’:
Events that shape your reality, you remember. I remember where I was when I first heard Sergeant Peppers’ Lonely Hearts Club Band. I remember where I was when I heard the first demos from Beck. Maybe it’s because the music world has produced so few magical artists in recent years…Whatever the reason, we now pay more attention when something wonderful this way comes. Fittingly, I remember where I was when I first heard what I thought were demos from a young Australian singer with the unlikely name of Butterfly Boucher. It’s rare when a collection of handmade songs from an unsigned artist lights upon your shoulder, and impresses you with every song. Every song. I knew in that moment that the world, in time, would come to know everything about her.
These same demos that she brought to Interscope for her initial meetings are the versions of the songs that eventually became her album. What you hear on the debut release is Butterfly throughout – aside from a bit of cello and some drum tracks on “Can You See the Lights?”, “Never Let It Go”, and “Soulback”, which were tracked live while she answered on bass – she played every instrument on the album and arranged it from start to finish. The credits you see for co-producing simply acknowledge the trusted ears and opinions of her close musical allies, Robin Eaton (sage), and Brad Jones (co-producer/engineer).
Butterfly’s story, it turns out, began with a bit of divine intervention.
She was born the middle child of seven daughters to free-spirited, creatively-endowed, and very spiritual parents. Accordingly, her mother left the naming of her children to a higher power. Her older sister Sunshine was named for the light that streamed into the nursery on the morning of her birth. In Butterfly’s case, her name was originally suggested by family friends, one of them a professional clown. Her mother wasn’t taken with the name Butterfly and looked again for divine confirmation that this was a good way to go.
Within the week, she had seen her first indicator: a lone picture of a butterfly hung in an elementary school hall, drawn by a child. Later that week, at dance class, she discovered her teacher dressed in a butterfly leotard. Finally, by week’s end, her daughter Rebecca came home with a recording of a song called “The Butterfly Song”.
Butterfly’s father was a freewheeling musician, who one day had an opportunity to audition for an American publishing deal. When that fell through, her father gave away the family’s entire possessions – again with divine inspiration – and travelled the Outback with kids in tow, all piled into a Toyota Corolla wagon. Butterfly was six. She says she first learned to read by watching the signs go by on the side of the road.
That restless, wandering spirit remained with Butterfly as she grew. Her first real experiments with music were crucial to what would come later. Using a four track recorder at age 10, she would create instrumental tracks by playing every instrument since most of her friends were outside doing the things that most kids her age were supposed to be doing. Her older sister had a band of her own: The Mercy Bell. Butterfly would eventually join her as bass player and backing vocalist and share part of the writing (”Another White Dash” is a refugee song from that project). A protracted three year demo deal with another US record label only lead to dashed hopes.
Soon after, a friend named Mike Dixon encouraged her to explore a solo career. It was advice she took to heart. With all the money she had she bought a laptop and moved to Stockton in the North of England to stay with family and friends. While there, she concentrated on simplifying her songs. Previously, she had always tried to cram 5 or 6 ideas into a song, and decided instead to try limiting them to 2 or 3 ideas. Soon after, attention for her solo work started to come. Positive response inspired her to continue writing and recording on her own. She felt she was finally beginning to get the songs out of her notebook and into people’s heads. “I wanted to inspire more people”, she says now. From there, Dixon hooked her up with several contacts, including producer duo Robin Eaton and Brad Jones who eventually took Butterfly into the studio to begin the long road toward making her debut album.
In the end, scores of instruments found their way onto the master tapes: guitars, drums, bass, piano, vibes, organ, mellotron, toy piano (on “Soul Back”), Field Organ, banjo, and various percussion (including planks of wood, a tympani, a steel wheel, and a hammer (on “Busy”).
Listen to the lonely drops of water that punctuate “Never Leave Your Heart Alone”.
It doesn’t take long in listening to realize that Butterfly is a welcome arrival. Immediate, melodic and altogether memorable, her songs examine the often overlooked details of life’s rich pageantry. Flutterby from Butterfly Boucher. Don’t let it pass you by.
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On June 2, 2009, her second album called “Scary Fragile” will be out with this song that you can’t miss if you were watching Grey’s Anatomy…remember the track “Bitter song”. You can hear samples and this great new track called “Cinnamon Chocolate” on Myspace. The first single will be “Gun for a tongue”.
You can also follow her on Twitter<< and take a look to her side project called “Elle Macho“
Finally, because music has to stay in the family, give a listen too to her sister’s band called “Lovers Electric“
She’s actually on tour in the US until the end of June.
Yeah this is a lot of info but it’s not my fault, you were late and now you know more about her 
. All you have to do now is to buy her first album and then waiting (impatiently like me) for this “Scary Fragile” to be out!!!!
At the end of the road, don’t miss her Youtube channel full of crazy videos like this:
And beautiful other videos like this one:
About the author : joined CTN-music.com on 2005, has music for passion, artists for friends and wishes to do more and more for them! Her biggest deal would be to create a giant folk/rock music festival in a few years and to own her label.
Based in France, she's a traveler and basically a woman :). Read more from this author
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Jessica
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THE ALBUM “SCARY FRAGILE” IS REALLY AMAZING!!!
:love: :love: :love: :love: :p
Alias
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Tu pourrais nous en parler dans un prochain article ^^