Jamie Rattner

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Biography With Excerpts from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

‘You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands’ `I don't deny things with my hands,' Alice objected. `Nobody said you did,' said the Red Queen. `I said you couldn't if you tried.’

Jamie Rattner could not deny things with her hands if she tried. Her songs of sincerity and poignancy have been falling from her fingertips and her lips for more than a decade, leading listeners to the most unexpected of places, melodically, harmonically, rhythmically, and emotionally.

'But how curiously it twists! It's more like a corkscrew than a path… well then; I'll try it the other way.... And so she did: wandering up and down, and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to the house, to do what she would.'

The house to which Jamie Rattner always returns is the piano. Whether playing a nightclub in Boston or New York, a coffeehouse in Zurich, a vineyard party in Tuscany, or a recital hall at Berklee College of Music, the piano is never unaccompanied by Jamie; that is, except for a few notable exceptions, like the irreverent track "Go Down" that opens her new album. But it is Jamie's use of the piano as a sketchpad, sounding board, soapbox, and soulcage that makes her a rare jewel.

'Alice said in a thoughtful tone...’When I make a word do a lot of work like that, I always pay it extra.'

Jamie possesses an uncanny ability to twist, contort, and remold words and their meanings. She reshapes lullabies into macabre stories such as in her signature song "Mother". Her astute ability to combine a searing lyric and an endlessly stimulating piano performance that is so satisfying to listeners across genres. There is a little bit of everyone from the sensitive to the sinister in all of her songs.

'...Alice had been reduced at last to say, `Well, you can be one of them them, and I'll be all the rest.... how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?'

Like Alice, Jamie expands both the sonic palette and the contextual range normally found in artists of the AAA genre. Her music is thoughtful, provocative, and dynamic. Her influences range from Nine Inch Nails to Suzanne Vega. But it is this breadth and range that has put her right at the center of appeal.

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Jamie Rattner
Manufacturer: Jamie Rattner
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAJOVO
Release Date: 2005-02-01

Numb
Elementary
Retrospect
Acrobat
We All Slow Down
Trickflyer
Drop of Dye
Song for Anne Sexton

Jamie Rattner

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"Forget the phone bill, buy this at any cost!"
The Real Thing

Jamie Rattner
Jamie Rattner
Manufacturer: Jamie Rattner
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0000798LR
Release Date: 2002-11-01

Tracks:

Go Down
Mother
In My Vein
Blue and Green
Wayward Song
Longer than Time
Marigolds and Dandelions

Customer Reviews:

"Forget the phone bill, buy this at any cost!".......2004-03-23

"This unique and fabulous performer delivers an amazing debut album; one that can't afford to be missed."
-Megan K/Glittergrrrls.com

The Real Thing.......2002-11-04

Jamie Rattner is the real thing-an amazing artist who puts the word muse back into music. Her piano playing is stellar and her lyrics are wonderfully crafted. You must own this album!

Music:

Music

Love Letter [Import]

Music for Brass & Piano

Prague Spring Collection: Schubert Duo No. 4; Brahms Sonata No. 3...

Simple Intent [Import]

Rossini: Bianca e Falliero / Renzetti, Rossini Opera Festival [Box set]

Portrait of Faith

Mozart: Haffner Serenade

Off The Record, Vol. 2: Live Duet Recordings, 1963-1980 [Live]

Lingering Memories Of The Masters

Kreisler on the Saxophone