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The Story Needs an Ending

Louise Dodds

Label: Independent release
Released: 2022
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Tracks

Blossom in Indigo Nowhere to Hide Inside In Other Words Place of Wonder Lean into the Fall A Little Grace Paradise Every Hue This is Where I Leave You Nowhere to Hide

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Album Description

‘The Story Needs an Ending’ is the latest release from Scottish jazz vocalist and songwriter Louise Dodds. Recorded in May and June 2021 in Glasgow, the album features 10 tracks all written by Louise. The album is a moving collection of deeply personal songs, following on from the sudden loss of Louise’s husband and fellow musician Andrea Marongiu (drummer with Crystal Fighters) at the very young ago of 32 back in 2014. The songs document her journey through not just the complex emotions of grief, but also all the other many aspects of being human that she had to work through during the process of healing. After losing her husband, Louise felt unable to perform for 4 years, and this album has been a cathartic experience for her and the final key to recovery. Louise tackles the subject of grief head on in the ballad A Little Grace, in which she finds herself in conversation with grief itself, as well as letting go (This Is Where I Leave You), learning to trust life again (Lean into the Fall), female intuition (Paradise) and trying to love again (Every Hue). The album was originally due to be recorded in April 2020, but was of course postponed due to Covid until the beginning of August. On the eve of the first rehearsal, one of the band members had an accident and suffered from concussion, so the recording was moved to the end of August. A week before they were due to go into the studio, Louise received a call from another band member to tell her he’d been diagnosed with cancer (fortunately he is now in full remission) so the album was pencilled in for February 2021. After one final delay due again to Covid, the album was finally recorded in May and June 2021. The silver lining of this is that the album features a completely different collection of songs than originally planned, as Louise spent lockdown doing a lot of soul searching and cathartic composing. This period also completely changed how she viewed singing, composing, performing and her entire relationship to music, and the album has come from a place of real honesty and surrender to everything that has happened. The song Nowhere to Hide is itself about her relationship with music. Louise performs on the album with 3 of Scotland’s top jazz musicians, and their close bond is very apparent throughout the recording.

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