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The Symphonies:

Dreams Memories and Parties

As her dreams and waking life planned a party where her memories and the present could dance, Emily Wells wrote, performed, recorded, and produced a series of fantastically modern symphonies for the festivities. The much-anticipated result is the latest release from the indie-darling. “The Symphonies: Dreams Memories & Parties”, is a symphonic folktronica fantasy set in a lush sonic landscape, imbued with intelligent, emotive lyrics. The record makes the listener turn up the volume and press repeat, while the live show draws the audience in closer to the stage to stare in wonder at the pixie-punk of a girl, dressed in a crinolin, adorned with tiny white lights, who creates the sounds of an orchestra with one lone violin.

To record “The Symphonies”, Wells used layer upon layer of strings, analog synthesizers and samples, drum machines, mettalophones, glockenspiels, and myriad musical toys, like her favorite toy piano and childhood music boxes. Add to all of this the beats of Sam Halterman’s big live dirty drums, and the warm depth of Joey Reina’s upright and electric basses, and you have the record that is being hailed as Wells’ best work to date. Emily’s wide vocal range is also showcased on the ten song disc, moving between haunting and mellifluous, dogged wide-eyed curiosity, and sophisticated self-deprecation. The underlying themes of dreams merged with memories all bathed in the ethereal golden glow of childhood sunlight, offer up the tone for this electrically charged album.

Beautiful Sleepyhead and the Laughing Yaks

(2006 edub productions)

Beautiful Sleepyhead and the Laughing Yaks is lush with string arrangements, and instrumentation including upright bass, drums, glockenspiel, and banjo, this album has fourteen amazing songs, which flow together seamlessly. Enjoying the addition of upright bassist Joey Reina, and drummer Sam Halterman, Emily wrote, recorded, produced, and mixed the entire album. Complete lyrics at the bottom of this page.

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Praise for Beautiful Sleepyhead:

Emily Wells has a quavering, angelic voice that has a little aura of strangeness. On Beautiful Sleepyhead and the Laughing Yaks, she uses that voice to great effect as her band helps her create shuffling, creaking portraits of idiosyncratic characters. Have a listen.

-iTunes - July 2oo7

iTunes indie spotlight artist

“Multi-instrumentalist Emily Wells says she's ‘most influenced by the songs and voices of Nina Simone and Bob Dylan.’ You can hear it in Emily's music. She's a singer-songwriter with unconventional and often chilling vocals.”

- NPR -

“Like a mix of Nina Simone and Bjork, Wells bled emotion with every word.”

-Performer Magazine

Live Show Review-

“...songwriter Emily Wells wrote, produced, and mixed her most recent album, Beautiful Sleepyhead and the Laughing Yaks. The result is an accomplished record that combines the curious vocal delivery and lyrical quirkiness of Joanna Newsom with the world-weary wisdom of Billie Holiday...”

-Flavorpill

"BEAUTIFUL SLEEPYHEAD AND THE LAUGHING YAKS has some of the best, most well written music and gorgeous female vocals ever."

-Robert Shamlin, Reviewer Magazine

“The album’s instrumental complexity sets it apart from more traditional folk... her vocals are playful, fluctuating between fragile and precious, mischievous and seductive... Wells’ Beautiful Sleepyhead and the Laughing Yaks overflows with creativity and expressiveness, serving as the perfect reminder to never lose your creative control.”

Performer Magazine -

“EMILY WELLS, Beautiful Sleepyhead and the Laughing Yaks: Multi-instrumental singer-songwriter Wells’ resolutely indie music (written, produced, & recorded by Wells in her own studio with bassist Joey Reina and drummer Sam Halterman) should appeal to fans of freak-folk and poetic lyrics that wind outside usual verse-chorus-bridge constructs amidst quirky arrangements of keyboards, xylophone, guitar and violin. Warbling over solo piano, Wells flirts with preciousness on the Joanna Newsom-esque “Supermarket,” but the unvarnished vulnerability of “My Tin Car” is genuinely affecting, as is “View From a Blind Eye”

-Pasadena Weekly-

Emily Wells is an artist to watch out for, and Beautiful Sleepyhead and The Laughing Yaks is a very impressive album... Fans of Leonard Cohen, Elliot Smith, Tom Waits, Bright Eyes, Joanna Newsom and others in similar veins will find Wells a pleasurable listen... Her music is a brand of folk that lies somewhere between country and pop. Production touches include sounds of marimba, xylophone, acoustic bass, piano, brush-hit drums and beautiful harmonies... Highly recommended listening for fans of the new folk.

Left Hip Magazine

This scarily beautiful CD caught my attention by being low-key, unobtrusive and quietly brilliant... ethereal deconstructed tunes with no fluff, no gimmicks, no cliches; how refreshing. There is not a lot of “big” sound to the songs within, but the ... [songs] tower over many studio-tweaked albums that are big on sound but small on esthetics... The closest thing I could think of to describe Ms. Wells is like a stripped-down Portishead mixed with a Neil Young/Nick Cave/Nick Drake sensibility.

-Reviewer Magazine-

Making Static

(2005 edub productions)

Making Static is a winter kind of album of love and loss and the beauty of living. The production is minimal, using real instruments: electric and acoustic guitars played through a 70’s Music Man amplifier, a Hammond organ, piano, and violin. These are folk songs, in the sense that they tell stories. The first of this album’s eight songs, ‘Valentine’, was played in Los Angeles on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. Making Static was written, recorded, produced, and almost entirely performed by Emily.

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Click to hear song Valentine Blue Hole

Music For Geek Love

(2004 edub productions)

This 18 track album is a roller coaster ride of experimentation and songwriting; embracing and melding electronica, hip hop, folk, and jazz and drawing from the influences of Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Bjork, Aphex Twin, and Biggy Smalls. One reviewer wrote of the album, “Whatever musical styles you’re into, you ain’t got nothin’ like this!”

Music for Geek Love was written, recorded, preformed, and produced by Emily.

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Click to hear song e.e.cummings Church

Shadow Box

(2002 edub productions)

This collaborative six song EP, features co production and songwriting with Brian Lapin (Black Eyed Peas) and Dan Wise (Run DMC, Love and Rockets, Ani DiFranco).

Two songs from the record, “Black and Blue” and “Excerpts From a Letter” were played in Los Angeles on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic and nationwide on KCRW’s syndicated Sounds Eclectic.

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Click to hear song

Excerpts From a Letter Teach Me

One Mic Solutions

(2001 edub productions)

The title of this 10 song album tells its own story. The songs are simple, voice and acoustic guitar, recorded live by Paul Mahern with one rca77dx microphone on September 19, 2001 at 11:30 AM. These are road songs, written while traveling the highways, and interstates of the U.S.

Politikal Havoc 4 track loves you (2001 edub productions)

Politikal Havoc is a somewhat odd combination of experimental, lo-fi material, recorded on analog 4 track, and songs written and recorded with myriad producers and songwriters. Collaborators include Ms. Jill Cunniff of Luscious Jackson. 20 tracks.

Midori Sour

(1998 officially released in 2000 edub productions)

The title of this album came from a four year old little girl, staying up too late one night, watching johhny Carson, and seeing a youngster by the name of Midori playing a vivaldi concerto on the violin. This fluke of bedtime evasion sparked the inspiration of a child that has led to a life of violin playing and songwriting, which as led YOU to this very page. Emily’s first CD release, Midori Sour’s 10 songs were recorded at the age of 16 by some guys in a smelly basement studio. This was the first of Emily’s albums to receive local press and acclaim on a large scale. Midori Sour was the album that caught the ear of Epic Records.

Invisible Holes

(1997 edub productions)

This was the first studio album recorded by Wells and released on cassette tape. This is the kind of album that was sold out of shoulder bags to anyone who had money to buy. 8 songs, 200 copies.

Lovesphere

(1996 edub productions)

This first album was recorded at the tender age of 13 in a friend’s bedroom with a stereo and a microphone, possibly the unknowing precursor to ‘One Mic Solutions’. 6 songs 100 copies, cassette.

Website copyright edub productions 2006 collages handmade by emily wells

Beautiful Sleepyhead LYRICS! (below)

forgive me for this odd way of placing them. Was

Mt. Washington

e wells 2006

Before we got out, I had my doubts

but walking around in the middle of the town,

freedom can be fun

Tell me all that wakes you wise

forget the mortgage and the end of time

we’ll blend together like bleeding lips

and trust that death’ll be our dying wish

come on over to the dark side, I’ll keep it warm

My love, don’t you worry, I got you in my arms

So we got out, first thing that we did was hit the hill top

to gaze upon the city that had given us birth

and listen to the sound of a baby’s crying

It all starts somewhere… it all starts somewhere

And once the sun had left the autumn sky

and the laughing of the children had gone inside

we wandered through the shadows of the tall streetlights

and remembered that it all ends somewhere

It all ends somewhere… it all ends somewhere

Tell me all that wakes you wise

forget the mortgage and the end of time

we’ll blend together like bleeding lips

and trust that death’ll be our dying wish

come on over to the dark side, I’ll keep it warm

My love, don’t you worry, I got you in my arms

my time keeps floating away

My love, don’t you worry, I got you in my arms

50 year love affair

e wells 2006

Hear you … talking to me, talking to me … like a dissonant chord

In a minor key on your buffalo strings …. all hand tuned

To the ice cream man and a … symphony

Been about, been about 50 years … Even 4 hundred 52

I could’ve loved you longer could’ve loved you blue

Our friends have all made their own way

Some are gone, some are here to stay

The boy’s all grown we heard from him today

And your green eyes are looking at me

Yeah your gray eyes are just tryin to see,

just tryin to see

Hear me… talking to you, talking to you … Another summer come

Like a bucket of rain and the daily news… I got a story

Of a couple of lovers who… made it through

Pretty little pockets they are full

Of every little thing I ever gave to you and I love it

Well you gave to me like a giving tree

Fruit so sweet I go swingin’ free on your branches

Look at the time

Are you look…. Looking at the season

Just about dawn baby soon we’ll be leavin’

Been about … been about 50 years … Even 4 hundred 52

We go on livin cause we don’t know what else to do

Fountain of Youth

e wells 2006

Racked my brain, boy was it loud

the clouds spoke to me, and we all grew down

our roots took hold of the cracks in the ground

and the sidewalks, rose up to greet me

Hello, Hello… Pleased to meet you

Had I been awake, all of that time

Big red line across your soul

blood running out like a funeral

I’ve seen the look of your eyes,

How can I soothe?

blood running out

like a fountain of youth

Living alone, the tenements are full

of people in their bedclothes under disappointment’s rule

talking to their TVs, yeah, the pictures they talk a back

Lost somewhere in make believe with the world upon their backs

Hello, Hello… Pleased to meet you

I’m a sailor on your open book

though you write it down in code

You’re a language I hope someday to know…

Had I been awake, all of that time

Big red line across your soul

blood running out like a funeral

I’ve seen the look of your eyes,

How can I soothe?

blood running out

like a fountain of youth

Waltz of the Dearly Beloved

e wells 2006

You’re my desert, the line between the sky

and where the world gets solid

and willing to divide

I corner you in the bedroom

I find you at the sink

I picture you in the morning

I reach for you in my sleep

I was in love, with the sky it’s like a drug

I was in love, with my window at twilight

In the back room of my memory

Lives a small boy stocking shelves

of numbered periodicals,

and the dreams I don’t write down

got a typist on the bottle,

my stock boy only twelve

and dozing in the showroom

my many other selves

I was love with the sound of it all

I was in love, with not knowing, anything at all

I was in love, with the sky it’s quite a high

I was in love, with my window at twilight

I was love with the sound of it all

I was in love, with not knowing, anything at all

Big Love Lullaby

e wells 2006

I got a love so big, can you believe it?

I got a love so lucky, I could never take for granted

Such a sweet darling, ah with a good heart

Such a sweet darling, ah with a brave mind

You’ve got the world in your hands

Go running with it

Bring um your joy, bring um your brilliance,

Though they don’t deserve it.

I got a love like a lullaby It can sing me to sleep at night

I got a love so righteous… So righteous and innocent

I got a love like a joy ride

And the stereo, just might carry you… home

Supermarket

e wells 2006

Would you

would you carry me

with blistered feet?

How would I ever thank you?

and somewhere, in the middle of the river

You’d have to let me go

even though

no one ever taught me, how to swim up stream

I could just go with flow

and meet you in a barrel of laughs somewhere below

You speak

you speak soft and low

you got a way with words

I’ll never tire

and somewhere, in the middle of the night

you love soft and slow

I’ll never tire of your sneaky smile

I’ll meet you in a barrel of laughs below

If you ever lose your way

well I’ll meet you in the corner of the supermarket

and carry home

I’ll carry you home

Tisis Momar

e wells 2006

What do you do

with eyes like that?

What do you do

with a mouth like that?

What do you do

with hands like that?

Will you touch me all over?

What do you do

with a sky like that?

All dressed in blue

longing for the night to come back.

What’ll you do

when I wrap you up and I touch you all over?

I’m not the kind of girl to go running around

I got what I need

I’m not the kind of girl to go giving in out

I save my lovin’ for you… for you

You come to bed, when you’re ready to love me

I’m all yours, like the light from the window

There’s your voice, and your head on my pillow

when you touch me all over

How shall I say

the name of my lover?

I think I’ll say it

over and over…

when you touch, will you touch

oh won’t you touch me

I’m not the kind of girl to go running around

I got what I need

I’m not the kind of girl to go giving in out

I save my lovin’ for you… for you

Oh my god I miss you

e wells 2006

I… I’m a thinking girl…. Who never considered god

Never, in the sense you see… considered him logically

So what do you do when you whittle him down

To nothin’ but a stone in the barren groud?

What do you do when you whittle him down

To nothin’ but a memory from your home town?

I go wild…. With possibility

I go wild …. With my fragility

But there’s something in the stone

There’s something… I just know… I just know

Growing up… there was a lot of praising

A lot of singing to an empty heaven

Growing up… there was a lot of judging

Yeah they could never get enough

So what do you do when you whittle him down

To a way to win the white house now he’s nothing but a clown

what do you do when you whittle him down

to your ticket into heaven with your bombs strapped down

I go wild… with fury

I go wild… with insecurity