Rosali
Philadelphia / North Carolina musician Rosali (Long Hots, Wandering Shade, Monocot) contemplates life's deeper meanings and surrenders to self-discovery through songwriting, often using the structure of love songs to explore the emotional spectrum of things that one cannot label so easily. Her writing expresses the universality of human nature and shares honestly and personally about loss, love, aging, suffering, confusion, self-doubt and anger. Rosali’s music deals with existence and how it permeates through the self and back into the world, transmuting these emotions into songs to provide an opportunity for the listener to inhabit and express their own feelings, like a comforting hand attached to expansive ideas, condensing the deep time of the universe into daily life.
Rosali’s writing process involves a lot of improvisation, playing with language and phrasing, indulging in the possibilities of phonetics to create hooks. In order to best convey the attitude of the song, she focuses on the way the tonality and fluidity of the melodies, harmonies, and cadence relate to the accompaniment. She weaves together intimate lyrics, strong melodic and rhythmic structures, and mellifluous singing while maintaining the free nature of the song’s origins, resulting in songs that are vulnerable, honest, and fresh, yet familiar.
Videos & Press
“Few fuzz like Rosali. She drags fuzz through life’s bullshit and comes out roses…or at least writes songs that grapple with the ugly and the pretty on equal terms. Members of the David Nance Group back her up on this record, churning out Crazy Horse rockers, but also hang-dog Cat Power ballads.”
“It’s been a long time since anyone has reminded me this much of Neil Young, as much for the graceful, unfussed melodies as for the surge of guitar racket, and it’s her, not her backing band, that compels the comparison.”
“Rosali: The AD Interview” - Aquarium Drunkard
“A Tradition of Evolution: An Interview with Rosali” - The Big Takeover
“29 Great Records You May Have Missed: Spring 2021” - Pitchfork
“8 Great Albums We Discovered on 2021 Year End Lists” - Brooklyn Vegan
