Jorane: stay

Elusive and indefinable, Jorane’s music draws freely upon alternative rock, folk, classical, and ambient music idioms, eliciting comparisons along the way with such distinctive artists as Kate Bush, Bjork, Tori Amos, Sinead O’Connor and Loreena McKennitt. Previous albums found Jorane singing primarily in French or in a non-verbal “jabberwocky.“ But on The You and the Now, the album that will provide her introduction to most of the English-speaking world, Jorane joined forces with noted Canadian musician and producer Michael Brook (Jane Siberry, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Brian Eno, Mary Margaret O’Hara) to create her first album of songs in English. The album includes songs co-written with Lisa Germano (John Mellencamp, Simple Minds, Indigo Girls), Simon Wilcox and Shira Myrow, as well as a recent, previously unrecorded selection by Daniel Lanois (U2, Emmylou Harris, Peter Gabriel) who joins her on the recording.