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Recorded with producer Thomas Brenneck of the Menahan Street Band at his newly-built Diamond West Studios in Pasadena, and with something of an open door policy during the sessions, a stream of acclaimed musicians ended up across the album’s 10 tracks, including Nick Hakim, Latin Grammy-nominated Brazilian guitarist Rogê, Leland Whitty and Chester Hansen of Canadian instrumental group Badbadnotgood, Chicano soul group Thee Sacred Souls appear on the melancholy ‘Crushed Velvet’, experimental jazz pianist Marco Benevento and El Michels Affair’s Leon Michels. With her intoxicating compositions, and wry brand of stagecraft (she might not be singing up there, but she can sure tell a joke) Molly Lewis looks set to join her heroes in the storied lore of the Los Angeles lounge scene and beyond. 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New entrees into the Exotica canon; sprawling, would-be Spaghetti Western scores; and a dash of Old Hollywood glamour — the whistle-led songs on her debut EP \u003cem\u003eThe Forgotten Edge\u003c\/em\u003e are as complex, delicate, and indelible as anything performed with viola or piano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Whistling is like a human theremin,\" said Lewis, an Australian native who’s spent the last several years in LA, and whose performances there and around the world are changing any preconceived notions of whistling by the room-full. That’s not to say Lewis is all serious and snooty about the craft. Quite the contrary. Her sense of humor is witty, self-deprecating, and zany. She’s as likely to reference the slapstick Leslie Nielsen film series \u003cem\u003eNaked Gun\u003c\/em\u003e for music video concepts as she is a classic piece of noir cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLook no further than the equatorial and breezy opening cut \"\u003cem\u003eOceanic Feeling\u003c\/em\u003e,\" a lovely walk across the flotsam-sprinkled sands in the rum-pumping vein of Les Baxter. Meanwhile, the title track — and really, the entire collection here — is a loving, and albeit rather haunting, salute to one of Lewis’s heroes, the Italian composer and musician Alessandro Alessandroni, who’s whistle and guitar you hear on the title theme of Ennio Morricone’s \u003cem\u003eA Fistful of Dollars\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLewis and her ensemble create classic cinema for your mind. Her own love for the artform began when, around the age of twelve she was given the CD Steve “The Whistler” Herbst Whistles Broadway. Something contained in it clicked. “It wasn’t that I was immediately obsessed, but I knew it was something I could do well,” Lewis said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe daughter of a musician mother and a documentary filmmaker father who often focused his films on niche communities and topics, Lewis recalls watching a television documentary with her parents about The International Whistlers Convention in Louisburg, North Carolina. “My dad said, ‘If you ever make it into the competition, I’ll take you there’,” Lewis said. Turns out, there was no bar to entry, just a small fee. And so several years later, she and her father traveled to the convention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNew to the form, Lewis didn’t take home one of the bigger prizes, but they were awarded the prize for “Whistler who traveled the greatest distance.” “We really just used the trip to drive around the United States,” she said. After studying film in Australia, Lewis moved to Los Angeles to be close to the film industry. There, her circle of artist friends grew naturally and with providence — her unique talent drawing more and more recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd over the last few years, Lewis’s Café Molly events at LA spots like Zebulon, Non Plus Ultra, and The Natural History Museum have become fabled, elegant happenings with appearances from guests like John C. Reilly, Karen O, and Mac DeMarco. Recorded with a crack team of friends and musicians during 2020’s quarantine, \u003cem\u003eThe Forgotten Edge\u003c\/em\u003e is rife with incredible performances from Thomas Brenneck, Joe Harrison, Eric Hagstrom, Abe Rounds, Wayne Gordon, Gabriel Rowland, Leon Michels, and Dave Guy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Red | 12\"","offer_id":50405598167371,"sku":"1122164","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50405598003531,"sku":"1135045","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50405598495051,"sku":"1122163","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f4f56005-248a-442c-9b77-02e2ce6468f4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726579772"},{"product_id":"mirage","title":"Mirage","description":"\u003cp\u003eMolly Lewis’s compositions seem to float into our ears from distant shores. They’re otherworldly, drawn more from landscapes of dream than from anywhere you could find on a map. Lewis is a unique presence in music today. Her trademark whistle, which brings to mind the great Peruvian soprano Yma Sumac, has graced recordings of everything from Schumann lieder and Brazilian jazz to Spaghetti Western ballads and noir lounge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLewis’s 2021 debut EP, The Forgotten Edge, was produced by Tom Brenneck (Charles Bradley, Amy Winehouse). It was a critical success, drawing praise from The New York Times and NPR, and landing Lewis a spot on CBS Sunday Morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, Lewis and Brenneck have teamed up again for her second EP, \u003ci\u003eMirage\u003c\/i\u003e, bringing aboard Brazilian guitarist Rogê, as well as percussionist Gibi Dos Santos and keyboardist Roger Manning. Capacious and atmospheric, Mirage is Lewis’s most hypnotic effort yet. 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