Penelope:
Music by Sarah Kirkland Snider
Lyrics by Ellen McLaughlin
Performed by Shara Worden and Signal
Conducted by Brad Lubman
New Amsterdam Records
Filmed and directed by Murat Eyuboglu
Edited by David Sarno
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Select 2010 honors for Penelope:
Textura Magazine:
Top 10 Albums
National Public Radio:
Top 5 Genre-Defying Albums of 2010
Huffington Post:
Top 10 Alternative-Art Songs of 2001-2010
(“The Lotus Eaters”)
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Press:
“Penelope is a gorgeous piece of music, but it is more — it is also a hauntingly vivid psychological portrait, one that explores a dark scenario with a light, almost quizzical touch, finding poetic resonances everywhere…Snider’s music lives in a netherland between richly orchestrated indie rock and straight chamber music, an increasingly populous inter-genre space that, as of yet, has produced only a few clear, confident voices. Snider is perhaps the most sophisticated of them all: No matter what perspective you bring to this album, it bears profound rewards…"
–Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, January 5, 2011
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Visit the official website of Penelope.
Praise for The Lotus Eaters Video:
"My Old Kentucky Blog is abnormally proud to premiere the absolutely stunning video for 'The Lotus Eaters,' one of several haunting numbers from Penelope that taunts me for merely saying that it defies description."
-My Old Kentucky Blog, November 3, 2010
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"Clocking in at over seven minutes, Sarah Kirkland Snider 's 'The Lotus Eaters' isn't so much a music video as it is an epic undertaking... magnificent."
-The End of Irony, November 5, 2010
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"It's an excellent visual account of the album itself, recreating the feelings of loss and dysphoria as Worden works her way through wind-whipped fields, ivy-covered ruins, and a makeshift infirmary under a vast expanse of sunless sky."
-Finally The Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid, November 24, 2010
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"This is just the kind of thing we like to see at Synesthesia: a serious musician-in this case a composer-collaborating with fellow artists to achieve an intriguing interdisciplinary result. In my mind, this is reminiscent of the giant strides The Metropolitan Opera is making with its 'Live in HD' series-essentially, making serious music more accessible to the masses by utilizing the modern mediums of video and the internet."
-Synesthesia, December 2, 2010
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Sarah Kirkland Snider and Shara Worden |
