Emily Arin to release album

“When You Knew Me When” is the first single from Emily Arin’s Patch of Land

http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/emilyarin/mp3/emilyarin-whenyouknewmewhen.mp3


About Emily Arin
With a plaintive, delicate voice, Montour Falls, New York’s, Emily Arin weaves tales concerned with the heavy graces of being human. Working with noted producers, Brian McTear (Matt Pond PA, Sharon Van Etten) and Greg Weeks (Espers), Arin has crafted songs with a wide-ranging mix of influences, from Hank Williams and Memphis Minnie to Nick Drake, Caetano Veloso, Tom Waits, Sybille Baier and Gillian Welch on her debut studio album, Patch of Land, available February 8th, 2011.

In recent years, Arin’s songs have captured the attention of radio luminary, Vin Scelsa (“Idiot’s Delight,” WFUV), who said “‘When You Knew Me When’ just blows me away. Makes me cry every time. The album is beautiful. A total success. It is like a warm embrace.” The track is the album's first single and also features Arin’s beautiful electric guitar work.

In her lyrics, Arin explores experiences where shadows and light converge and transformation is offered as a possibility. Whether autobiographical songs of love and longing, or third person waltzes and ballads (as in Patch of Land’s “Sweetly Breathe”), Arin’s inventiveness with language and melody hold court.

“Songwriting for me is a process of distillation,” she says. “My aim is to repeatedly filter an idea and emotion to form an honest vehicle for sharing life’s poignancy, playfulness and mystery.”



Emily Arin
Patch of Land
(S/R – 2/8/2011)
Track Listing:
01. Say
02. Waltz for Spalding Gray
03. Hidden Flame
04. When You Knew Me When
05. By the Fiery Glow
06. On a Rainy Night in Memphis
07. Sweetly Breathe
08. Patch of Land
09. I Thought By Now
10. Vertical Miracle
11. Lyle’s Light