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)

YOU GATHER MY DARKNESS LIKE SNOW, WATCH IT MELT.

NEW BOOK WITH ORIGINAL MUSIC RECORDED WITH IVO NEAME AND JIM HART. NOW AVAILABLE

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A £3 MAILING LIST IS AVAILABLE FOR 21 NOVEMBER. CONTACT BABEL

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The basic facts are that Paula Rae Gibson is a singer, a songwriter, a photographer and a filmmaker but with Paula the devil is in the detail. Her husband, film director Brian Gibson died in 2004, after which Paula threw herself into her art partly in order to distract herself from her pain and create artefacts that offered some sense of pleasure and release.

Her debut CD, written as a direct response to her husband's death, No More Tiptoes, was released in 2007. The track We Blow It Everytime was selected as one of Time Out magazine's top ten of the year. PRG followed up with 2008's Maybe Too Nude which she recorded with Goldfrapp's Will Gregory. She is currently working on a book which will include a novella, photos and music, to be launched at the end of 2009.

In her two books of photographs, Diary of a Love Addict (2006) and (Fear I Know Not) I'll Always Walk Away (2007) she is most often the subject; mixing sensuality, loss, passion and pain with autobiographical texts against artistically stressed /treated images in ways that are thoughtful, philosophical and erotic. Paula has exhibited in LA and Brussels as well as in various London galleries.

Paula scripted, composed the music for, and acted in, What Are You Doing Forever? which was screened as part of the Portobello Film Festival, and her video The Poet Without Tragedy won the prize for the Best Music Video at the 2009 Independent Film Festival.

Read the Time Out preview on Paula's official site

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More information: gerry lyseight – 020 7095 8146 / gerry@glpr.co.uk / www.gerrylyseight.co.uk

More details soon.

PHOTOS OF RABAT NOW ON SITE HERE

Videos here

INCLUDING

The Poet Without Tragedy

(WINNER BEST MUSIC VIDEO, LONDON INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2009)

* 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
Read the Amazon reviews

* 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 novella with photographs and music (recorded with Ivo Neame and Jim Hart) ready on Babel in November: you gather my darkness like snow watch it melt.

* Review from itunes of No More Tiptoes. Here.

* 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.

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 (2009):

you gather my darkness like snow watch it melt is the latest book by paula rae gibson.

A novella, photographs, collages, a dialogue about desire and music with Ivo Neame and Jim Hart. Poignant, beautiful, showing her all-round skill and importance. Order it now from Babel web site.

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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