Fire Records’ newest signing, Ella Raphael revisits ‘See You Through’, a magnificent modern classic that delivers a deeply personal, poignant vignette with warmth and emotion. Today we reveal a new acoustic rendition of the track with a new music video.
Ella will be heading to the UK and France for her first run of live dates including The Great Escape, Focus Wales, Independent Label Market and a tour with Rain Parade throughout May and June. To celebrate there will be an extremely limited number of test pressings available featuring brand new, unreleased music alongside her recently released singles.
LIVE DATES
10 May: Focus Wales (Fire 40 Showcase), Wrexham, UK
11 May: Independent Label Market [2pm set], London, UK
13 May: Fountain Session (Private Show), Paris, France
15 May: Notting Hill Arts Club, London, UK
16 May: Fire Drinks Social (4:30pm) @ SixtySix, Kensington Gardens, Brighton, UK
16 May: Pelirocco Bar (6pm), Brighton, UK
14 Jun: Strange Brew, Bristol, UK, w/ Rain Parade
15 Jun: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK, w/ Rain Parade
16 Jun: Night & Day, Manchester, UK, w/ Rain Parade
18 Jun: Old Cold Store, Nottingham, UK, w/ Rain Parade
19 Jun: 229 Club, London, UK, w/ Rain Parade
21 Jun: The Slaughtered Lamb, London, UK, w/ Marina Allen
Wooed by the symbolism of time and place, inspired by Jodorowsky and Godard, she began assimilating it all into her own songs. Often found writing outdoors, freedom has always been a virtue to her – soaking it up – Ella penned songs that are at once aching and brittle, then elated and celebratory; she has perfected a sound that’s as wide-ranging as her influences and experiences, music that’s as beautiful as its surroundings, using the intricacies and subtle nuances of sound to channel both light and dark into her music.
Brought up on Elvis and Ella Fitzgerald, with her travels adding The Shirelles, Julee Cruise, Serge Gainsbourg and Karen Dalton (to whom her lilting vocal occasionally recalls). Following the loss of her father in 2021, she dug deep, framing the times and events, weaving her songs through a spiral of dark sadness before traveling north to the urban city of Haifa, with its underground music scene, in the shadow of Mount Carmel.
“I very much connect to what the poet Mark Strand says about music: ‘The creative force best capable of giving voice and shape to our most ineffable experiences and most layered longings, of containing them and expanding them at once. It is our supreme language for the exhilaration of being alive.”
