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7/28/2017

Jana Pochop's "Lightening" video premiere/review

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          Albuquerque, NM singer-songwriter Jana Pochop credits an early exposure to Mary Chapin Carpenter as the catalyst which awoke the dormant creative self living just beneath the skin. Pochop's sincerity, like Carpenter's, is well-worn and deeply felt in both her lyrics and her voice, Jana carries her songs like heavy packs set to the floor. All too often a song doesn't possess the necessary gravity needed to ground the listener. To be believable as a storyteller is never something you can fake, and Jana gives new meaning to the idea of where one is going and where one has been. In You Lit Me she sings:

                                                                      "If I could just hold your gaze instead of checking my goddamn phone
                                                                       all the turns of all my phrases took me down the wrong road
                                                                       but we can scrape stuff out of mountains to power this city"

            In an age where the tendency is to run from ourselves and each other, to hide out in artifice, Pochop craves genuine connection. As we all know that is the place where spirit meets the bone and the road is bumpy as hell, Jana's songs seem to live in that space where the messiness is preferred rather than avoided, the real thing, which leaves us sometimes both full and empty, is also what fills the song to its breaking point. You can't feel a song unless its broken.

              Lightening, Jana's latest single, recorded at Rubicon Studio in South Austin, carries on the theme of genuine connection, of how feeling another human being like lightening can be a grounding that is so hard to get at and yet so necessary to pursue. Brian Standefer adds a beautiful cello section which becomes like a tether to the song, anchoring it in deep waters. It's the kind of song you wish radio stations still played, a tireless labor of love created by people who go deep with a song, because the surface is not a place of truth, and as Pochop sings: If I could just open my mouth, tell you straight what I'm thinkin', every thing big and important stems from that jumping off point where the real thing comes through, eyes meet and feeling another person like lightening becomes the ground, the gravity of both life and love, the poetry of the song taking us to new, unfakeable heights.


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Lightening Available to Buy:
Direct download: http://janapochop.bandcamp.com
iTunes/Apple Music: http://bit.ly/jpo-lightning
Amazon: http://bit.ly/jpolightning
Google Play: http://bit.ly/googlelightning
Streaming on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3YV99IqnUm5nxse4ffk06f

Visit: janapochop.com/

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