{"title":"June McDoom","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"with-strings-2","title":"With Strings","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe second EP from rising New York singer-songwriter, June McDoom. Features covers of songs popularized by Judee Sill and Nina Simone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"My first EP, June McDoom, was hugely inspired by the minimal sound of the 60s and 70s folk era. I wanted to reimagine a couple of those songs more stripped down as a follow up to that first EP. Judee Sill's songwriting and arrangements have impacted me deeply, and so I hoped to honor the music she made by recording a version of her song, “Emerald River Dance” – one of my favorite songs for many years and a song I still sing at most of my shows. The first time I heard “Black is the Color” was Tia Blake's version that she recorded in 1971, and then Nina Simone's performance inspired me to try and record a rendition of my own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile writing \"On My Way\" and \"The City,\" I always imagined versions of those songs stripped down with three-part harmonies, which I was finally able to do here with dear friends, Cécile McLorin Salvant and Kate Davis, who have both been big inspirations to me throughout the years. One of my close friends, Sam Weissberg who I met while studying in jazz school when I first moved to New York City worked with me and arranged the harp and strings for each song. I produced the songs and tracked the remaining instruments and vocals with Evan Wright at our new studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that we share with our friend, Nick Hakim (who also provided backing vocals on “On My Way”).\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temporary Residence","offers":[{"title":"12\" | Signed Copy","offer_id":50384882532683,"sku":"2164857","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black 12\"","offer_id":50384881385803,"sku":"2164856","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/With_Strings_-_EP_eacf7076_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726305147"},{"product_id":"june-mcdoom-2","title":"June McDoom","description":"\u003cp\u003eJune McDoom’s eponymous debut EP is a collection of songs that collage virtually everything important to her. Growing up in South Florida in a Jamaican household, McDoom was raised around reggae music, which echoed throughout every room of her childhood home. Later, she discovered and nourished her own deep love for folk music and songwriting of the 1960’s and 70’s. While studying in NYC for a degree in Jazz Performance, her musical palette expanded to include the more intricate influences of jazz and early soul. Realizing that her favorite vintage folk music lacked artists with similar identities as her own, it became increasingly important for McDoom to carve a unique musical space to push folk music towards a new and different audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcDoom was eager to take the reins on the production of her debut EP. Recorded and mixed entirely from home with collaborator Evan Wright, McDoom found herself enthralled with the analog recording process, which began a textural exploration that defines this record. Experimenting with a mixture of vintage analog and modern digital recording, McDoom learned profound new ways to marry the seemingly contrasting genres and style that had individually shaped her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJune McDoom’s debut EP is steeped in self-discovery, and self-acceptance. Its magic lies in its ability to weave the influences of such seemingly disparate icons as Joan Baez, The Delfonics and Alton Ellis into a new, seamlessly crafted tapestry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temporary Residence Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"LP - Green","offer_id":50454174204235,"sku":"2003197","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/41d7d03c-d90d-bbe3-40d6-5ac4eb230b8c_2960cfb9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727181802"},{"product_id":"june-mcdoom","title":"June McDoom","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"538\" data-start=\"113\" style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eSince debuting with the widely praised single, “The City,” New York-based singer-songwriter June McDoom has been on a magical and memorable journey. Releasing two EPs, touring with Nick Hakim, Brittany Howard and alt-J, and appearing on Sub Pop’s Margo Guryan tribute album, June McDoom has been in a constant state of forward motion. Now, for the first time, McDoom collects all of her singles and EPs to date onto one CD.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1272\" data-start=\"540\" style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJune McDoom\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of songs that collage virtually everything important to McDoom. Growing up in South Florida in a Jamaican household, she was raised around reggae music, which echoed throughout every room of her childhood home. Later, she discovered and nourished her own deep love for folk music and songwriting of the 1960’s and 70’s. While studying in NYC for a degree in Jazz Performance, her musical palette expanded to include the more intricate influences of jazz and early soul. Realizing that her favorite vintage folk music lacked artists with similar identities as her own, it became increasingly important for McDoom to carve a unique musical space – to push folk music towards a new and different audience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temporary Residence","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":51355091894603,"sku":"R0435-7334","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e7f0aa41-3471-85a8-2b20-7efcff72e171.jpg?v=1740675449"},{"product_id":"follow-the-light-1","title":"Follow The Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a hush most of us only knew as children, the warm drift between familiar household sounds and being carried to bed, a place that belongs to you and to some self you have not met yet. June McDoom’s debut full-length, Follow the Light, lives in that dream space and then keeps walking, slipping out of time and waking somewhere new, barely familiar enough to feel like home yet wholly your own. She came up in a Jamaican household on the edge of the Florida Everglades, an existence built of extended family, communal care, bass and harmonics. Her father, a carpenter and a student of sound, built his own speakers and kept three sound systems going across as many rooms. His low end would rise through her bedroom floor like some wayward cat while she lay above it with folk records, finding harmonies that were new and hers alone. Two musics in one room. Lushness as past and premonition. She found folk on her own, somewhere between the cast recording of The Sound of Music and Simon and Garfunkel, while everyone around her called it sleepy music. She did not mind being the only one. The solitude let her fall for harmony first, before words, before anything else, and harmony is still the thing she reaches for. Generationally speaking, the music was already in the air. Her grandfather, Colin Smith, is a distinguished mento man who played banjo and guitar and built his own rumba boxes, worked to keep Jamaica’s oldest acoustic folk form alive. Mento is the root of all of it: ska, rock steady, reggae, dub and everything after. He is the one who put a guitar in her hands. An inheritance, a gift and a map. Even her name is part of it, though she will tell you she landed on it more by feel than reason. She records as June McDoom, born Alyssa, June being a nickname one of her grandmothers, Joan, went by, a name she thought was cool to carry and simply liked the sound of. An etheric channel that reverberates all the same. A dub all its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMade slowly and by hand with her longtime partner Evan Wright, Follow the Light lays the harmony of folk over the rhythm of dub, with Dionne Warwick, Minnie Riperton, Pentangle and the washed guitars of Cocteau Twins haunting its outer edges. Voice and guitar seeking each other out first, then everything else stacked across long days in the studio they keep at home, restraint kept on purpose. The lead single “Without You” is the whole method surfacing, split open and sparkling like a geode in a creek bed. Angelic heroics, and nothing less.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the heart is family. Her grandmother Aggie, the light behind “Memory,” guiding still. And underneath, the quieter truth the record keeps: none of us are only one person, but a continuum of selves, the ones who shaped us and the ones we have yet to meet. Future you is an ancestor your current self gets to greet. 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