New York City based Carrie Beehan will release her new album Alazon In The Quiet Room on October 21st, 2016 via BNS Sessions. The singer unveiled her latest single recently, Ass In The Middle. Carrie Beehan is an established international multi-media performer and artist residing in New York City. Her creative style combines music, paint, performance and video.Her work has even been included in the New Museum Ideas City New York 2011 and 2013. You can check out Ass In The Middle below!
How much are you looking forward to the release of Alazon In The Quiet Room?
Considering it is my first full album in quite a while, I was been deep in writing musical theater/art films etc, I am relieved and overjoyed to have given birth to this personal album.
How much does this release mean to you?
This is the culmination of years of songs, lyrics, melody and ideas that finally found their songline-storyline when I honoured the passing of my father and decided to record my introspective side. It feels intensely good to release this very personal collection.
How is it different to previous releases?
Usually, I am in full gear with uptempo electronic mashed with pop/folk/cabaret vignettes and this time. I just slowed right on down and let it rip – at low speed and high content.
Instruments were kept to a minimum, voice and lyric was key, and I even controlled my urge to wash it out with layers of electronic and heavy bass lines. I worked with some amazing musicians to bring this to the table, from all over the globe, with multi-instrumental and massively-talented, local New Yorker, David Patterson adding so much musically in the studio. It was laid in the hands of a producer of such gravity, Oscar and Grammy award winning Robert L Smith of Defy Recordings, in Hells’ Kitchen New York. His contribution is key to the quality and purity of sound we achieved.
What is the song Ass In The Middle about?
I am one of three siblings.
Many years ago in the 1990’s I had a dream that haunted me about my maternal grandfather and the island cottage and bay we frequented with him as children, early years of dawn fishing nets, porridge over a little kerosene stove and the smell of whiskey on his breath. It was a chaotic dreamscape:
In the dream the cottage was broken into by squatters, rooms emptied and places of comfort washed away in the tide. Three men with strong shoulders, who I recognized as three generations of patriarchal brotherhood, stood strong protecting me and then let me fall.
I didn’t understand the dream, but wrote it down with the words, Ass In The Middle resounding, and did an early recording of it in about 1995 when I was living in Berlin, there is no copy of this.
My grandfather planned to retire in the late 1960’s. He died with one smoked-out lung and pneumonia several weeks short of retiring to live in this island haven. He was an orphan separated from his five or so siblings as a kid and a tough cookie.
I am one of three siblings, the middle child. Many years later, and once my father passed two years ago, the dream became very clear to me, vividly clear. My father had moved onto that property for his retirement years, as siblings we were long-since ripped apart in dissent over my grandfather’s haven and it was time for me to leave for good, let all the childhood memories wash away with the tide, but it was not going to be a joyful departure. Imagine three children at play and one stands in the middle and has to intercept the ball but the other players don’t want you to catch it! You are the Ass In The Middle.
Will you be going on tour with the album?
For the last year I have been writing. performing and tweaking and previewing a music theater show called Alazon In The Quiet Room – Part One: Displaced. (Performed in Berlin, Germany, Bisbee in Arizona and New York Governors Island) We are close to bringing this to a New York city theater stage and will announce dates as soon as possible. My work is multi-media and sits well in a cabaret – theatrical venue, where people are seated and wish to experience Alazon In The Quiet Room as a show. Touring this baby will involve taking a theatrical production on the road and this all stems from the first New York shows but smaller intimate renderings of Alazon In The Quiet Room album will be performed locally and nationally once the theater show date is finalized.
How much do your fans mean to you?
I don’t have any 🙂
Seriously, if you don’t have fans – you have no audience and no listeners – if you are making art simply for yourself that is fine, but if you care about sharing what you create, and hope it speaks to someone and touches something significant in them – strikes a chord – you are totally reliant on your fans – it is that simple.
What has been your proudest moment in your career?
Presenting Alazon In The Quiet Room – Part One: Displaced privately in New York as few weeks ago to an audience of seasoned actors, top musicians, writer/directors and a taking bow with my team at the end to delighted raucous approval.
The show tells the story of my life and that of renegades over four decades in five countries encompassing the new album Alazon In The Quiet Room, my electronic debut with Unversal/BMG in the late 90’sTryst/Tryst, my funk-pop NYC band album of the mid 2000’s Trystette: Good Part Of My Soul, and Video Director Clinton Querci’s Art Film of my early Berlin songs – Folk Tales of The Monarch – To tell your story in music and vignettes brings a sense of completion to this artist’s life.