Nite Jewel

Nite Jewel Unleashes Video for One Second of Love

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Nite Jewel Set To Release One Second of Love On March 6, 2012 on Secretly Canadian Set To Tour With Chairlift, Play SXSW and More

Here’s The premiere of the video for ‘One Second of Love’ the visual partner to the titletrack from Nite Jewel’s stunning soon-to-be released album. In this video a typical party with atypical guests presents a conflation of notions of transgression, excess, asceticism, and conformity. The video was helmed by writer-director Delaney Bishop has worked with Marilyn Manson, Snoop Dogg and made award winning short films. His videos and photography can be seen on delaney.tv

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California native Ramona Gonzalez first began her transcendent minimalist dance-pop escapades in the privacy of her own home in Los Angeles. With the aid of her multitrack cassette recorder and whatever keyboards, drum machines, and other instruments that were available to her, she very quickly developed her own unique sound and began performing live in the L.A. area under the moniker Nite Jewel.

Later teaming up with Cole M.G.N. (formerly of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti), the Nite Jewel act became four piece live act, touring alongside the likes of Little Dragon, DaM-FunK, and James Blake. The Nite Jewel sound has been likened to that of a warped, lo-fi version of Late-80’s Freestyle Electro sensation Debbie Deb and has also found appeal among not just the ‘indie rock’ & ‘experimental’ crowd but also among avid listeners of hip hop, funk, disco, & soul. While very fond of these aforementioned genres and
artists, Nite Jewel gathers much of her inspiration from the likes of L.A. Free Music Society’s experimentalist Tom Recchion, obscure UK new age electro-acoustic duo Woo, and the sublime ambient electronic music of groups like Germany’s Cluster and Italy’s Sensations Fix. Nite Jewel never hesitates, however, to cite 90’s R&B pop groups such as TLC & SWV as influences who left an indelible mark on her music sensibilities as a teenager.

Since 2009, Nite Jewel honed its lounge-pop-R&B craft across releases from Italians Do It Better, Mexican Summer and LA/Bay Area labels Gloriette Records and Human Ear, which lead to a wealth of refinement and bold directness in singing and songwriting. Yours Truly’s Love Letters Inc. will release the “She’s Always Watching You” 7″ in December 2011, with new songs that feature newly minted vocal styles – an extension of the clarity found on the title track of last year’s ‘Am I Real?.” On One Second of Love, the forthcoming Nite Jewel opus, you’ll find a re-imagination of Golden-era R&B pop;
future-classic sounds alongside vocal sultriness. If Nite Jewel’s earlier work brought to mind the likes of Lisa Lisa or Debbie Deb on quaaludes, this new body of work may conjure up clearer images of the likes of Sade, Eurythmics-era Annie Lennox and Tracy Thorn. Pure, confident, singular but intricate and delightfully sophisticated. This evolution will all come to a head in March 2012 when Secretly Canadian releases One Second of Love Nite Jewel’s proper full-length follow up to her brilliant 2008 LP.

Track Listing

1) This Story
2) One Second of Love
3) She’s Always Watching You
4) Mind & Eyes
5) In The Dark
6) Memory, Man
7) Unearthly Delights
8) No I Don’t
9) Autograph
10) Clive

Record Release Party

March 6 – Del Monte Speakeasy – Venice, CA w Dam-Funk DJ Set

SXSW shows

Mar 15 SXSW 1:00 a.m. – Secretly Canadian Showcase @ The Mohawk
Mar 16 SXSW 3:30 p.m. – The Windish Agency Showcase @ The Mohawk Mar 16 SXSW
6:00 p.m. – Urban Outfitters Showcase

Mar 16 SXSW 10:00 p.m. – Wax Poetics Showcase @ Barbarella Patio
Tour Dates all with Chairlift (except Bowery Ballroom)
Mar 14-17 SXSW – Austin, TX
Mar 26 Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA
Mar 27 Il Motore – Montreal, QC
Mar 28 Legendary Horseshoe Tavern – Toronto, ON
Mar 29 Magic Stick – Detroit, MI
Mar 30 Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL
Mar 31 Triple Rock Social Club – Minneapolis, MN
Apr 03 Larimer Lounge – Denver, CO
Apr 04 Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT
Apr 06 Electric Owl – Vancouver, BC
Apr 07 The Crocodile – Seattle, WA
Apr 08 Doug Fir – Portland, OR
Apr 10 The Independent – San Francisco, CA
Apr 11 Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA
Apr 12 The Casbah – San Diego, CA
Apr 14 The Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ
Apr 16 Club Dada – Dallas, TX
Apr 17 The Mohawk – Austin, TX
Apr 18 One Eyed Jacks – New Orleans, LA
Apr 19 The Earl – Atlanta, GA
Apr 20 Local 506 – Chapel Hill, NC
Apr 21 U Street Music Hall – Washington, DC
Apr 22 Johnny Brendas – Philadelphia, PA
Apr 24 Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY w/ Sophia Knapp and more TBD