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CD, digital and artist copies of the limited edition double LP are now available at karatebodyrecords.com.
Rachel Grimes
Billings Gazette reviews ‘Book of Leaves’
Year end love for ‘Book of Leaves’
Owl City tells MTV.com Rachel Grimes is his favorite artist to watch this year and Book Of Leaves, Grimes’ debut solo piano album, made more than a few year-end best of lists:
Time Out Chicago: Classical Top 10
Only 24 copies of the first pressing of Book Of Leaves remain. Our January sale ends in less than two weeks, so be sure to pick up your copy today.
Death Valley Radio spins “Long Before Us”
Washington, N.J. station’s playlist includes Rachel Grimes.
Rachel Grimes: Detroit, 12.18
Motor City Blog has posted photos from Rachel Grimes’ Dec. 18 solo piano performance at Detroit Institute of Arts. View them here.
Rachel Grimes / 12.18.09 / Detroit
Rachel Grimes closes out 2009 with a concert this Friday, Dec. 18, at Detroit Institute of Arts, where she’ll perform selections from her new solo piano album, Book Of Leaves. In today’s edition of The Detroit Free-Press music columnist Mark Stryker says of Grimes’ work, “Her best pieces emit a reflective yet focused shimmer that seems like a plea for peace in a world that moves too fast and loud for its own good.”
Book of Leaves vinyl LP is available here at karatebodyrecords.com and it as well as the CD version are in independent record stores nationwide. It is sold digitally in the United States through Think Indie. In Europe, Book of Leaves is out now on RuminanCe Records.
Robotic Empire, Vinyl Collective now selling KBR wax
Two online vinyl outlets, Robotic Empire and The Vinyl Collective, are now carrying copies of Louisville Is For Lovers Vol. 9, Ben Sollee’s Learning To Bend, The White & Green Belts, (Joe Manning, Pokey LaFarge, The Fervor and Wussy), Ume’s Sunshower EP, Rachel Grimes’ Book Of Leaves and Phantom Family Halo’s 2XLP Monoliths & These Flowers Never Die.
MOJO loves “Book of Leaves”
Rachel Grimes
Book Of Leaves
RUMINANCE
4/5
With Rachel Grimes’ day job chamber ensemble Rachel’s (who are not, curiously enough, named after her) currently inactive, an album that bears at least one of that group’s compelling hallmarks is welcome. Book Of Leaves is more than a Rachel’s record sans cellos, drums or electronics, however — its crisply recorded piano essays distinguished by a particular intimate lyricism, invoking autumnal wistfulness and poignant contemplation without recourse to maudlin soundtrack cliché. “Satie-esque” is frequently shorthand for any generic, reflective piano music, but the French impressionist’s dreamy Gymnopédies are a palpable inspiration here, notably on stately opener “Long Before Us.” Elsewhere, Grimes paints vivid landscapes with iridescent arpeggios, dulcet counterpoints and Michael Nyman-like staccato pulses. So transporting is her flickering right hand playing that the birdsong which decorates “The Corner Room” feels superfluous — as, by the album’s close, do those Rachel’s associations.
