Jessie Kilguss
What Do Whales Dream About At Night?
New York City


The lead track from her beautiful new album, What Do Whales Dream About At Night, was inspired by a poem by Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan called Headphones. Regular readers might remember when Sound Read Six featured Great White Shark not so long ago. This new single accompanies the album release and gives people a gateway into her music with a great radio-suited composition. With drummer Brian Griffin, who's known for work with Lana Del Rey, Brandi Carlisle, and Patti Smith, Whynot Jansveld on the bass, the band is completed by LA producer Naren Rauch on guitar and Musicamiba's Nathan Schram. Run by Jessie and Nathan, Musicambia bring music and performance art to prisons in the USA. The entire album is brought to larger than life by Adam Lasus and Charlie Nieland in the studio. Following on from her stylish and talented acting career, in which Jessie Kilguss found herself performing alongside Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Rider, adapting her stage presence to music seems a perfect fit for the future.


The haunting sound of the harmonium opens the song as Jessie sings her primary lines to the strumming of a gentle guitar. A meandering story of tone and imagination unravels as the music begins to chop with swift chords that take on a folk sensibility. Bass and drums bring the flow forward as keyboards form raindrop like inflections over the bars. Another gear-change brings a cantering flow to the song as the new verse rises like a sun on the horizon. The familiar chorus returns to ask the same question over and over, like our own minds musing on the seemingly unreachable. We can dream and imagine those of the whales.


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Jessie Kilguss
Great White Shark
From What Do Whales Dream About At Night
New York City


Opening the gift of the new album layer by layer, Jessie Kilguss presents her latest cinematic single. The mastering and mixing for this record was done by the fingers of Charlie Nieland, who's worked with Blondie, Debbie Harry, and Rufus Wainwright. Produced in turn by Adam Lasus, known for work with Helium, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and Yo La Tengo, this star-studded album features Grammy-Award winning LA composer Naren Rauch, Brian Griffin of Patti Smith and Lana Del Rey fame, and Whynot Jansfeld, known for work with the Wallflowers and Butch Walker. An actress as well as a musician, Jessie Kilguss made the transition to music after working with her hero, Marianne Faithfull in The Black Rider. She's starred alongside some huge names including Winona Rider and Daniel Day Lewis. In the four years since since her last record, Jessie Kilguss has lived the real-life montage of hard work mixing with genius to bring us this latest single, Great White Shark.


Mellowness and beauty radiate in the subtle chord changes of the introduction. Jessie Kilguss begins to sing, and it's clear she has a brilliant voice. A country folk vibe vibrates in her tones as the vocals meet the progressive band. Guitars slide and strum as drums slenderly pin the bars together in graceful drifts of flow. The music sways in windy metronomes as the swinging timepiece dances to the feeling that conjures through the words. Mystery and magic fulfil corners of the imagination as the warming and evocative voice of Jessie Kilguss soars along the cresting waves of the lyrical ocean.


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