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New music: ‘Middle Voice’ – Kate Fenner

“The Yield” Kate Fenner (Official Music Video) Directed by Angelica Zollo from Angelica Zollo on Vimeo.

New York City folk singer-songwriter Kate Fenner has a new music video ‘The Yield’ and corresponding album, ‘Middle Voice’ out.

About Kate Fenner’s ‘Middle Voice’ album

The album ‘Middle Voice’ is a snapshot of mid-life and the in-between feelings we experience with love, purpose, illness, and death. It is a sweet, earned ambivalence towards life and art.

“I recorded the bed tracks for this album after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer and slated for surgery to remove it. This diagnoses itself came after a fallow period of illness and getting sober,” Fenner said.

She had started to write again, and wanted to capture her voice on tape in the event that something went awry during her surgery. Tony Scherr, Fenner’s old friend, stepped up immediately to record with her all the beds in less than three weeks in short 3-hr sessions while her son was in school. They later added overdubs and a couple newer songs, once her voice had healed.

Listen to the album “Middle Voice” on Spotify.

Connect with Kate Fenner on Facebook.

‘Middle Voice’ Track List

1. Two Minds
2. This Divorce
3. Beatrice
4. The Yield
5. A Marriage
6. Song & Dance
7. You’re a Big Girl Now
8. Fatal Fire
9. Hunter
10. Passenger
11. That is All
Musicians:
Kate Fenner: vocals, guitar
Tony Scherr: guitars, bass
Guests:
Kenny Wolleson: drums
Shawn Pelton: drums
Norah Jones: piano
Jason Moran: piano
Chris Brown: organ
Bill Frisell: guitar

Styles: folk, singer-songwriter
Similar To: Joni Mitchell, Roberta Flack, Van Morrison

About ‘The Yield’ Music Video

For the music video and song’The Yield,’ Fenner pins a timeless melody to plaintive elegy- Bill Frisell’s sonic ether as twinkling stars that are just close enough to make out, while the lyric sticks us to the ground of loving, fostering and parenting. The music itself becomes parent to the prodigal voice, who has left not to wander, but to yield. Fenner documents tending to life while keeping “one eye on the city lights.” The song holds the listener on a constant pivot, with surrender and yearning in the balance.

About Kate Fenner

Kate Fenner is a Canadian musician based in New York City. The New York Times describes her vocal stylings as having a “lusty, alternative, Joni Mitchell-ish sound.”

“Middle Voice”is Fenner’s third solo album. Musical contributors to the recording include Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Norah Jones, Chris Brown, and Tony Scherr. On the album, Fenner’s rich voice navigates ecstatic and tragic thresholds, encountering what we may keep and what we need to put down throughout life.

As the middle of three sisters, and a woman of ‘middle age’, the album locates the singer in the present tense, presuming nothing and delivering truth with unabashed maturity. Experience has yielded both wisdom and disappointment.