PAULA RAE GIBSON
Paula Rae Gibson is a photographer, singer and writer. There is no formal web site for her poetry, music and images. This is the only site and is "authorised". A proper site could not do adequate justice to the quality and nuances of the music and images.


"A Renaissance Woman" (The Guardian)


 

* New album Maybe Too Nude available here exclusively.
Order the album with full 32 page booklet of original artwork here for just £11 or download here


Read the Time Out preview
Read the Jazzwise article

* New standalone book now available online where you can turn the pages. Images to the music of Passion be spent here


"We Blow It Every Time" selected as a track of the year in Time Out. Download it here.

There are photos of the mastering of Maybe Too Nude here


News (scroll down for more information or look at relevant pages on the site):
* New review from itunes of No More Tiptoes. Here.
* Exhibition at Rollo Gallery, 51 Cleveland Street, London W1. 17 April-31 May
* Exhibition at FFI Frankfurt, 8 February - 16 March. Concert, 23 February
* We Blow It Every Time from No More Tiptoes chosen as a top 10 track of 2007 in Time Out.
* I'll Always Walk Away has been chosen as one of the selected titles for the German Photo Book Awards. The book will be displayed at book fairs throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland through 2008.



NEW DATES:

Live dates during the Rollo Gallery show to be confirmed!

No More Tiptoes as A5 book with lyrics and CD now available

 

Check out the videos of Run Away and We Blow It Every Time

 

album on 33 records: no more tiptoes.

With Tom Pilling (piano).

The special limited edition includes lyrics and new photos. It is available here exclusively for the same price as a regular CD in the shops.
Buy it here now

The version without lyrics can be bought here now

Raw, unashamed, without pretense, an expression of life, loss, fear and a need to be just honest.

"A trenchantly individual piece of work, No More Tiptoes is the debut CD from London-born singer, poet, photographer and filmmaker Paula Rae Gibson..... Stripped down to just keyboard and voice, music-making doesn't get much more personal than this.....Some of the songs almost give the impression of being improvised – ‘Busy Fairies' being a prime example – while others such as ‘I'll Always Walk Away' have a more clearly defined harmonic motion.

Pianist Tom Pilling creates a variety of atmospheric soundscapes, from rippling right-hand figurations and booming bass octaves to the merest chordal fragments, against which the singer delivers her painful and questioning soliloquies in a voice that at times is so gossamer-light it threatens to evaporate into the ether. A disc that's simultaneously disconcerting and moving."
(Peter Quinn, Jazzwise)

"With comparisons to Kate Bush and Tori Amos, but a distinctly improvised jazz twist, this is refreshingly honest music"
(Mike Flynn, Time Out)

Fuller biography here
Lyrics here

 

Latest news: A book with the full lyrics and new photos is now ready

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Latest book (October 2007):

i'll always walk away is a book of collages and video art set to music, discussing the wrong man ... how when in a negative space you draw the wrong man to you

' sometimes to give my heart a rest i go for men that i detest'. it speaks of walking away .. of never letting fear get in the way ''make me feel secure and I'LL OPEN all the doors in me that you could dare to dream but aspire to the bland and ill shake your hand and walk away'

It was launched at Frankfurt Book Fair, 11 October 2007

Buy it here

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Diary of a love addict

Buy it here.

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Photos



Momo's
Black's
Vortex
Flaneurs, Tokyo
Mastering at Alchemy

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Myspace

 

this is a continuing and evolving site..........new photos, lyrics, and more here constantly being put up on the site