WCPM- 90.3FM Ideastream NPR- Uno Lady is Christa Ebert, who calls herself a one-woman choir. She uses digital equipment, a keyboard, her voice and live looping to create an enchanting wall of sound. This year, she traveled to France to participate in an artist-in-residency at Chateau Orquevaux. In 2018, she received an Akron Soul Train Fellowship and was a Panza Foundation awardee. Christa Ebert is now a board member of the Panza Foundation.
Here she is, as Uno Lady, performing, “Sanguineous” and “Don’t Break My Heart,” which features Roseanne Safros (drums), Theresa May (trumpet) and Beth Hiser (bass).
Listen to the new record, OSMOSIS on Volar Records. You can stream, buy digital or order a limited edition green vinyl here.
I was fortune enough to be a part of PSB/ WVIS Ideastream’s 2019 The Sound of Ideas Community Tour, NEO Artist Showcase. The show will be airing this morning at 9am on WCPN 90.3.
Northeast Ohio has an incredibly talented and diverse arts scene, including many award-winning performers in all kinds of disciplines. The Sound of Ideas Community Tour gathered some of the best and brightest artists in the area to performed in an artist showcase at the Beachland Ballroom in Collinwood, on December 11.
Friday, Dec. 13th brings yet another Volar Records showcase, which also marks a double record release for new LPs by Cleveland one-woman experimental-pop artist Uno Lady, and San Diego reformed post-punk band Beating, fka Beaters. Joining the show are the newest Volar signees, psych-post-punk band The Passengers and the operatic queer doom rock of D. Wrex.
The new record, Osmosis, is out on all platforms. I’ll be sharing a little something extra about each of the songs in the coming weeks. Here’s a video I made for the first track, Breeze.
Breeze is about longing for adventure, a fantasy about falling in love with an exciting person whom I could tag along with on their travels. I admire people who explore the world and celebrate other cultures, those who escape societal norms and live unique lifestyles.
Since writing this song, I have learned the qualities I was searching for in someone else are already a part of me. I didn’t need to find it in a partner. It was inside of me all along. I am learning to embrace my independent, unconventional and introverted side. My adventures are just beginning.
Lyrics:
I’ll go wherever the wind blows
follow- join if you’ll have me
where are you going to?
where are you from?
seeking adventure, can I tag along?
every curve of the earth (It’s not flat)
every cave and nook
I’d look at with you
