JANA HORN - The Window Is The Dream - LP - Vinyl

LP - Black Vinyl. 

A Rothko-esque color field set to music, The Window Is The Dream ventures even deeper into Jana Horn’s inner space than her stark, acclaimed debut Optimism, which earned her an ‘artist to watch’ tag from The Guardian upon its release last year. For her second record, Horn travelled to upstate New York to record with a few musical touchstones in mind: the electro-primitivism of the Silver Apples, austere rhythm kings This Heat and The Raincoats’ time-bending Odyshape, however the resulting 10 songs are an entry into a world which is very much her own.

The songs were mostly recorded with Jared Samuel Elioseff at Pale Moon Sessions in Cambridge, NY, with some additional recording with Craig Ross at Studio 4 in Austin, TX. The instrumentalists were: Jared Samuel Elioseff (piano, synth, bass, classical guitar), Adam Jones (drums), Jonathan Horne (classical and electric guitar), Sarah La Puerta Gautier (vibraphone, synth), Daniel Francis Doyle (electric guitar), Craig Ross (bass), Nino Soberon (cello) and Victor Pacek (upright bass). Jared Samuel Elioseff arranged the cello on “After All This Time” and programmed the drum machine on “Song For Eve” and “Love In Return.” Jana Horn wrote the songs and played guitar, bass and piano.

The album was mixed by Craig Ross and mastered by Josh Bonati.

The painting on the outersleeve is by Sam Sanford.
The paintings on the inner sleeve are by Christina Carter.

“Her voice is just transfixing”
- NPR Music

“Horn’s debut album is a skeletal marvel that evokes Yo La Tengo and soft country shuffles” — The Guardian

"Deceptively gentle songs [...] they unfold like melodic dreams" — MOJO

"With the boiled-down quality of a good short story collection, [Optimism] is cryptic, bewildering and daringly simple" — Pitchfork
  

Tracklist:

1. Leaving Him
2. After All This Time
3. Days Go By
4. The Dream
5. Love In Return
6. Old Friend
7. Song For Eve
8. In Between
9. Energy Go
10. The Way It Was