Omar Rodriguez-Lopez from The Mars Volta has produced the third studio album for Juliette Lewis titled `Terra Incognita`.
“Everything she’s feeling, it’s just right there for you,” he said of the recording. “It’s just honest. It’s her. All the music encapsulates her and it’s driven by her, and it’s made for her.”Lewis wrote most of the songs with long time friend Chris Watson. She then had to rely on both time off from her own touring schedule and days off from The Mars Volta to put down the album.
They recorded the album in Brooklyn, New York and Guadalajara, Mexico.
“Because this album is so sonically different than anything I’ve done before and captures many flavors of my emotional life and voice, it needed an entirely new band,” says Lewis. “Terra Incognita means unknown territory, and that’s where I wanted to go musically. The guitars are more wild and atmospheric. The groove is dark and deep and allow for a lot of sonic contrasts. It took me five years to really cut my teeth both as a performer and as a songwriter and I wanted to break all the habits I’d gotten used to and let songs develop out of a groove or simple piano notes and melody. In Omar I found a producer who understood all these facets and who could really unearth and interpret this musical identity. He blows my mind on many levels. It’s been a truly liberating and radical experience.”
Juliette’s acting career includes roles in Natural Born Killers, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Strange Days and Starksy and Hutch.
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