This is My Letter to the World

Sarah June

Web: http://www.darkhollerarts.com/

Sarah June is a singer-songwriter from Detroit, Michigan. She has been singing as well as playing piano and guitar since childhood. In high school she began writing songs inspired by life as she experiences it and the industrial wasteland by which she is surrounded. When she was 18 she began to perform in Chicago and Detroit, and put together an EP called "three-quarter view" in 2001. Currently she lives in San Francisco.

Still inspired by bleak urban landscapes, and the loneliness and alienation that lurks within us all, she spent this past year writing songs that she compiled into her debut album: "This Is My Letter To The World". Her inspiration comes from such figures as Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Ray Bradbury, and Gwendolyn Brooks and this clearly shows in her lyrics.

She recorded and edited all of the songs alone in her apartment to preserve the uniqueness of the recordings. All of the songs on this album are textured and layered, offering delicate atmospheric melodies which evoke the story she is telling.

June offers us ten original compositions accompanied by two well-chosen covers (Prince's "When Doves Cry" and a stunning version of Elvis' "I Can't Help Falling in Love with You .")

This is a melancholic yet beautifully haunting album.