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Nite Jewel is the performing moniker of Ramona Gonzalez. She is a composer, songwriter, and multimedia artist from Los Angeles, California, where she has exhibited a number of video and sound installation pieces. A recent sound installation entitled “The Question Concerning Technology” has been transcribed to traditional notation by Human Ear Music founder, Jason Grier. She has collaborated with Julia Holter and Cole M.G.N. of Haunted Graffiti, curated two exhibitions at the Tiny Creatures gallery, and performed the work of Michael Pisaro. She was a philosophy student at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles.
The Nite Jewel project is a remarkable combination of revisionist Bronx pop and hazy musical impressionism. Like her ex-pop peers, Ariel Rosenberg and Geneva Jacuzzi, she records solely on portable 8-track cassette deck, often composing her songs by layered tape edits. In Nite Jewel’s case, however, the quality of her chosen medium seems to be neither a means nor an end, but rather a device to lend an ethereal kind of efficacy to the golden age of alternative disco. As influences, she has cited dance floor greats Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam and Debbie Deb, 90’s R&B, as well as Experimental, New Age, and shoegaze.
The Nite Jewel project is a remarkable combination of revisionist Bronx pop and hazy musical impressionism. Like her ex-pop peers, Ariel Rosenberg and Geneva Jacuzzi, she records solely on portable 8-track cassette deck, often composing her songs by layered tape edits. In Nite Jewel’s case, however, the quality of her chosen medium seems to be neither a means nor an end, but rather a device to lend an ethereal kind of efficacy to the golden age of alternative disco. As influences, she has cited dance floor greats Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam and Debbie Deb, 90’s R&B, as well as Experimental, New Age, and shoegaze.
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DreadfulYgg wrote:
"Still can't sing." That was never the point. Her vocals compliment the atmosphere like an additional instrument.
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Sonicjr01 wrote:
WALRUS ?
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raverill wrote:
I generally prefer the older murkier sound but One Second of Love is a great pop tune!
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theboredone wrote:
Songwriting is the same, production is different
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GlacierOcean wrote:
New stuff isn't different at all, just better produced.
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Sonicjr01 wrote:
I just love this ...
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weimarrepublic wrote:
Still can't sing.
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mada11 wrote:
Is her new stuff really that different? I like her first album best too,but give the girl a chance to grow.............
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loveandfear wrote:
I miss the old Nite Jewel [2]
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thekatango wrote:
wtf happened here. i miss old nite jewel
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CheezburgersLOL wrote:
holy crap, that new song is awful.
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mitsario wrote:
she definitely sounds a lot more confident in her voice
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Buffalo- wrote:
I'm liking the new song. The beginning is a bit hard, but the chorus and rest of the song are all pretty chill.
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p0wer_v1olence wrote:
WTF happened to Ramona? Yikes. Not digging the new song at all. :(
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mac301 wrote:
new NJ: http://yourstrulysf.bandcamp.com/album/nite-jewel-shes-always-watching-you
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rej0inder wrote:
love this b!tch (she's not a b!tch) x)
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kwokwokwo wrote:
эээ
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toosarky wrote:
am i real?
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nikita_kapitsa wrote:
love love love
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Skutti wrote:
Pls, come to Finland. Maybe next year to Flow-festival in Helsinki? ;)
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