feelinganxious pr cmj 2011 recap

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The crowd at Rock Shop Saturday night was loud, but Elizabeth Ziman got them to shut up. The multi-

instrumentalist songwriter who basically is Catapult did it with her voice, and her lyrics, and her tunes. And by

being a 99 percenter when asked, pointedly, by a voice in the crowd if she was down with the Wall Street

protesters, her answer was an emphatic yes. As if anybody needed further proof, she directed them to to

check out the title track to her 2009 album Taller Children and its thinly veiled story of a bankster who jumps

out a window. Her songs did the rest of the talking.

She opened solo on electric piano with Thank You for Nothing, singing as her fast fingers flung off rapidfire,

Romantically-infused rivulets. They say hurting is growing, if you believe when you say it, she wailed,

thank you becoming a mantra that moved from bitter to desperate. In the studio, her voice has nuance to

match her lyrics. Live, shes a force of nature. She really cut loose on the catchy ba-ba-ba Britpop hit Race

You Back Home and then a raw, intense song that set aching Appalachian-flavored harmonies to a funk beat.

Zimans songs are smart, and seldom completely straight-up, whether musically or lyrically, perfectly

illustrated by the next song in the set, its angst simmering below the surface of a blithe 70s-style country-pop

tune.

Are you ready for some classical, bitches? she smirked, and launched into a Dresden Dolls-esqe noir cabaret

number with lightning, Beethoven-esque piano flourishes.You can trust me now, was the refrain all the way

throughuntil the creepy ending. She and the band closed with a soaring version of Leonard Cohens

Everybody Knows that energized everyonebut left out the meter on the bed that will disclose what

everybody knows! Without that meter, the song might as well be Nobody Knows. This might have been CMJ,

time might have been tight, but that meter has got to stay where its supposed to be!

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October 22, 2011

http://nowiveheardeverything.com/2011/10/22/saturday-the-last-day-of-cmj/

October 22, 2011

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