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 Laetitia
Sadier
For as
long as records are made - or at least listened to in
some fashion, Laetitia Sadier will forever be linked
with Stereolab, the band she has fronted with ex-partner
Tim Gane throughout the heady pre-and-post-millennial
years of the past two decades. But 2009 signaled changes
- Stereolab announced an indefinite hiatus and Laetitia
disbanded her original solo project/band, Monade. Fittingly,
Laetitia is releasing her first 'official' solo record,
The Trip. The theme of the record addresses such passages:
"Putting my name on this record reflects my need not
to rely on or hide behind anyone. On a deeper level,
I also had a very strong urge to make sense of the loss
of my sister Noelle, so it's a very personal homage
to life's journey and a grieving process for the separations
that are an unavoidable part of life." Laetitia has
been performing her new songs at solo live shows this
summer with just voice and electric guitar, but for
The Trip she packed a band sound, with musical collaborators
including Americans Rebecca Gates, Richard Swift and
April March and French musicians Julien Gasc and Emmanuel
Mario (who also collaborated on the final Monade album
Monstre Cosmic). "One Million Year Trip," the opening
track, deals directly with her sister's suicide and
Sadier's attempt to grieve and understand her loss.
The tone of this song, while deeply personal, conveys
a certain effervescence obtained perhaps only from the
kind of reflection incurred by such a tragedy. This
is the tone for the album, conveying a lightness that
belies the bitterness of the subject matter. Throughout
the album, a straightforward, carefully arranged approach
expresses Laetitia's reflections in a personal, yet
public form of entertainment. As a solo artist, she
explains she can approach song-writing in a different
way: "In Stereolab, the lyrics came second and were
always to fit Tim's music and not the other way around.
I don't have that creative tension with Tim anymore,
and I'm finding that very liberating," she concludes.
Links
http://www.myspace.com/laetitiasadier
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