A Fragile & Powerful New Album
Published
Loud
Sara Lew
A fragile and, at the same time, powerful energy is the overall signature of the new Sara Lew album, which is a result of the meeting between the experiences of her life in recent years and the musical primordial power that characterizes the very special universe of the Danish indie artist.
The album represents Sara Lew's characteristic style, but at the same time has new delicate threads which move into the atmospheric, where bare acoustic guitar gives way to vocals and lyrics gaining strength in the recognizable scratches that crises and grief leave behind - and which you as the audience intuitively recognize. “LOUD” is Sara's musical exclamation mark after a period when life simply overshadowed the music in all its raw reality and is about the big themes that characterize the life lived.
“LOUD” is about encounters with the past and with the unconscious taboos that Sara as an adult woman had to confront because, despite her powerlessness and grief, she insisted on being a role model for her children. And to take care of the love and care, which became her delicate light and strength, in the darkest moments; a light that gained warmth and flared up in a redemptive and playful approach to the creation of the album.
Born to an English mother and Danish father and raised in Roskilde, Sara Lew is aka Sara Lewis Sørensen is now living in Copenhagen. Sara is an electric guitarist, educated at the rhythmic Music conservatorium in Copenhagen. She has received lessons from a number of jazz musicians in New York, including Ben Monder (David Bowie - Blackstar). Throughout her career, Sara has continuously developed her great talent within jazz and improvisational music, alternative rock and as an indie-folk-rock musician in a large number of constellations and now stands as a strong lead, on both guitar and vocals on “LOUD”.
The album complements 2024's previous single releases 'Did you ever notice', 'Faces', 'Out of Nowhere' and 'Shady Light', which were received with enthusiasm in both the UK and Denmark in media such as Gaffa.dk, Good Because Danish, Side33.dk, Fame Magazine, Amazing Radio, Louder Than War Radio and more. The music is played and arranged by Sara Lew (vocals and guitar), Anders Filipsen (keyboard/synth) and Jeppe Gram (drums). Recorded by and in collaboration with sound and studio technicians Troels Bech Jessen and Casper Nyvang Rask. Produced by Sara Lew, and mixed and co-produced by Nis Bysted (Iceage & Choir of Young Believers), with mastering by Emil Thomsen.