Abra Moore Everything Changed CD

Everything Changed is Abra Moore's first album in six years. The struggle to bring it to life -- from the shambles of another record deal and the tumultuous life occurrences addressed in its songs -- places it automatically outside the realm of the simple ambition required to advance one's career by issuing a new pop album. As such, it is necessary to forgo the standard critical language in addressing it, and to meet it on its own terms and speak its language: that of the human heart, exposed, raw, and desiring wholeness. What is contained within these 13 songs is something mercurial, enigmatic; in essence, it is a work of desire but not covetousness. These songs communicate directly to anyone who has ever experienced wholesale, soul-threatening brokenness and wears the exquisite scar that informs everyday life in its aftermath. Inside the album's booklet, on its first facing page, is a photograph of Moore either entering or emerging from kissing her image in a mirror. It contains no vanity or narcissism. Instead, it expresses honest, ego-less self-regard and beatific love. It is nearly holy in its expression, because it understands that in order to extend oneself to others, one has to accept and embrace the truth and beauty of her own countenance in frailty and vulnerability, as well as in strength and purpose. The music on this record fleshes out this archetype with spiritual and emotional depth and dimension. Moore worked with producer and multi-instrumentalist Jay Joyce on Everything Changed. The end result not only extended her aesthetic reach, but raised his creative watermark as well. Using everything at her disposal, including standard rock instrumentation, ornate strings, keyboard and percussion treatments, electronic beats and textures, and wonderfully subtle atmospherics, Moore strips the considerable quirky charm displayed on her earlier records to the bone; in its place is naked, tender, and sometime frightening emotion, presented with painstaking attention to detail and lush arrangements not to soften the impact, but to celebrate it fearlessly. Ultimately, everything on Everything Changed is a love song that reveals its many faces to be sure, but also its shadows. On "I Do," with its gorgeous cornet and piano intro, love is expressed as solidarity and faith. "No Fear" is love as invitat

The Grammy-nominated Austin singer-songwriter’s return AND long-awaited follow-up to 1997's Strangest Places. features personally charged songs of beauty, melancholy and hope. Includes a bonus DVD with live performances, interviews, lyrics, and photos. Jewel case.

Includes bonus DVD.

Recorded at Tragedy/Tragedy, Nashville, Tennessee; The Institute, Austin, Texas.

Personnel: Abra Moore (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, drums); Jay Joyce (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, programming); Mitch Watkins (acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards, bass, background vocals); Mike Mogis (guitar, banjo, Mellotron, ARP synthesizer, glockenspiel); Neil Rosengarden (trumpet, French horn); James Hall (trumpet); Giles Reaves (piano, drums), John Deaderick (keyboards); Dave Harrison, Pat Mastelotto (drums); Maria Taylor (background vocals).

Producers: Jay Joyce, Mike Morgis, Mitch Watkins.

Personnel: Abra Moore (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, drums); Jay Joyce (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, programming, background vocals); Mitch Watkins (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, keyboard bass, background vocals); Mike Mogis (guitar, banjo, Mellotron, ARP synthesizer, glockenspiel); Leigh Mahoney, Jamie Desautels, Shane Sanders, Will Taylor (strings); Neal Rosengarden (trumpet, French horn); James D. Hall, Mike Elam (trumpet); Giles Reaves (piano, keyboards, drums); John Deaderick (keyboards); A.J. Mogis (upright bass); Dave Harrison, Pat Mastelotto (drums); Maria Taylor (background vocals).

Audio Mixers: Chris Lord-Alge; Giles Reaves; Jay Joyce; Kevin Killen; Mike Mogis; Mitch Watkins; Will Taylor.