FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Lauren Passarelli lpassarelli@berklee.edu
New Album: Night Vision
Release Date: June 20, 2020
TOP MASSACHUSETTS MUSICIANS BAND TOGETHER TO MAKE GORGEOUS ALBUM
Lauren Passarelli has joined with some of the best music-makers to produce NIGHT VISION, due for worldwide release on the 2020 Summer Solstice. She enlisted the talents of a host of engineers, singers, lyricists, and instrumentalists, including Kate Chadbourne, Eugene Friesen, Leanne Ungar, Alizon Lissance, Doug Alexander, Michael Harmon, Mike Bishop, Mary Douyard, Leah Bluestein, Tom Evans, and Michael Bean. The resulting album is a testament to the power of creative collaboration and artistic friendship.
Berklee College of Music Guitar Professor Lauren Passarelli grew up inspired by The Beatles, James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, and Stevie Wonder, and went on to become the first woman to graduate from the Guitar Department, eventually becoming Berklee’s resident Beatle expert. She was recently named one of the top 10 most inspiring women music professors in the US by College Magazine and is an expert on the creative process and a proponent of collaboration between artists of all kinds.
Passarelli’s life-affirming songs are at the heart of NIGHT VISION. The album features her powerful and precise guitar and slide playing, singing, and performances on drums, piano, and bass. A rare blend of musician and engineer, she also recorded, mixed, and mastered the record with some help from Leanne Unger, also a Berklee professor, after she received a grant to spend a weekend recording in Berklee’s famous studio, The Ark. From all corners of her musical life she gathered friends and players. She befriended Michael Harmon of Wachusett Recording who in turn welcomed Passarelli into his studio to record on his vintage 2-inch tape recorder. She invited a quartet of former band-mates to play drums, bass, and keyboard, a high school friend to contribute lyrics, a Harvard professor to play piano, a Berklee colleague to play cello and another to play keyboard, a painter to sing, and a Berklee student to contribute some amazing drumming.
The result of this collaboration is joyful, adventurous, and thrilling to hear. NIGHT VISION is Passarelli’s tenth album of original songs, available now on laurenpassarelli.com and coming soon to Spotify and iTunes. Follow Passarelli on Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and Instagram and visit her website and YouTube channel for her inspiring take on songwriting and creativity.