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Princess One Point Five is a solo project of sorts, the brainchild of Sarah-Jane Wentzki in collaboration with her partner Richard Andrew, and friends Jacob Pearce and Domenic Stanton (Because of Ghosts). At long Last was recorded over 4 months, in between full time work and full time study, at the institution that is Fitzroy's Pharmacy Records. Sarah-Jane has spent the past 4 years writing and performing as a solo artist as well as with Melbourne duo "i want a hovercraft" (with guitarist Seth Rees). Now, through the single Inadequate Response and her album At Long Last, Sarah-Jane has been exploring what lies beneath the surface. How did the name Princess One Point Five come about? "I'm a bit of a drama queen...and I'm little, a little, but tough, person. I'm actually 1.52 metres tall, so I'm just rounding down." How long has this project been in the works? "Honestly, it's about bloody time… this album is a culmination of 4 years worth of experience. I find creating music a deeply pleasurable and cathartic experience and it was a surprisingly easy, albeit exhausting experience. It allowed me to be self-indulgent, to explore music, and my abilities, to a greater degree than previously. I started believing in my music as something other than just therapy. It sounds real. It's beautiful, melancholic, slightly off centre, and sufficiently odd." Princess One Point Five appears influenced by 80's/90's Nordic and German electro-pop/glitch and the Melbourne noise art community. Further in, you see she detours towards fraught and strange sex/death landscapes more akin to My Bloody Valentine, Mirah, or Stina Nordenstamm. Sarah-Jane says, "I like to think of my music as pseudo-electro-noise-pop, with catchy melodies… It's ironic, exploratory, sad (yet hopeful), cinematic…" The album is very cinematic. What kind of film is it? "It's shot somewhere beautiful, otherworldly, like New Zealand... mountain regions with coastline. It's mostly about a girl who rejects the world around her. Her nurse is a young man. He's married with a child, but he sees a way to nurture this young woman, fix her. He communicates with her in a way he can't with others. I'm not sure he would leave his wife, but I'm sure someone dies." Although this is a solo album, it seems a very collaborative project. "Even though I tried to at first, it was impossible to play everything, and self-destructive to exist within a vacuum. For their skills, expertise, input, and different perspective, I couldn't have done this without: Richard; co-producer, engineer extraordinaire and comedian, backing vocalist, percussionist, 2nd guitarist, and bassist, Dom Stanton: on bass and glockenspiel (tracks 2 & 4) - Dom, who had the rhythmic foresight that I didn't, Jacob Pearce; whom I simply could not compete with on drums (track 6), and my string section (tracks 2, 5 & 6): Naomi Evans, Bronwyn Henderson, and Mal Pinkerton, who are all remarkable people and musicians" Princess One Point Five will launch the album At Long Last on April 27 2005 at Manchester Lane. At Long Last is through Le De Records, via Pharmacy Records, and distributed in Australia by MGM. |
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Discography
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At Long Last (LP) 
Released 01/04/2005 (Le De Records/Pharmacy)
Buy me if you like Download Mp3's from the album: Inadequate Response (mp3) By The Time I Get... (mp3) |
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