PAMELA CLAIRE
Releases Debut Album
‘Lonely Sets Me Free’
with single and music video
‘Thin Air’

OUT NOW!

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“Leaving you in awe of how one woman’s voice can be so fluidly beautiful ranging from tenor to soprano and in true Orbisonesque style.” (ForteMag)

“End of Days” has a truly unmistakable vibe, almost like unearthing an old 7″ from a basement – a musical treasure that feels timeless and ageless, ready for a new audience to appreciate it.” (Jazz Corner)

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‘Lonely Sets Me Free’ is an impressive showcase from debut artist Pamela Claire, OUT NOW.

Pamela Claire delivers a love letter to music in Lonely Sets Me Free.  A skilful blend of genres creating a powerful, eclectic and beautiful album.

Lonely Sets Me Free is not just one thing and this is where it’s subtle mastery lies. Each track on this album feels like opening up an unexpected present that you never thought you needed but now can not live without. The songs on Lonely Sets Me Free are soulful, sad, groovy and danceable sometimes all at once. Pamela Claire makes music for grown-ups.

There’s the jazzy title track, the disco groove of Real Love, and the witty country/alt-folk of Choir, and Let’s Stay Miserable Together. Claire explores a rock feel on the hard-edged Naked and Blue, and Little Shadow, Blues on Let the Love In and turns soulful on the dancy Directing Traffic and Breakthrough. On Thin Air and the critically acclaimed End of Days, Claire demonstrates her delicate gifts in words, music and voice, delivering a pair of heartrending tunes that tear away at raw emotional truths with  characteristic warmth and a disarming honesty.

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On Lonely Sets Me Free, Claire creates a captivating chanteuse vocal style across a truly eclectic set of tunes that music lovers who know their stuff will find irresistible.

Lonely Sets Me Free is entwined with light and dark, tears and humour, with a twinge of nostalgia and a heart-on-sleeve creative attack that confronts, soothes, affirms and gets you moving. As Claire sings in ‘Choir’, (track 8):

“Isn’t it funny, that love you are the most, is the love you have to give.

Sometimes the song you want to hear is the song you need to sing”.

Lonely Sets Me Free is at times confessional, always deeply personal. Claire’s songwriting explores love and loss, inconvenient truths, and coloured by a commitment to shedding the pain of the past and stacking a claim on a few small and big hopes for the future.

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The tracks already released as singles: ‘Let’s Stay Miserable Together’ (Feb), ‘End of Days’ (March), and ‘Directing Traffic’ (May), have enjoyed radio play on  2SER, FBi, JOY 94.9 and PBS FM. ‘End of Days’ received critical acclaim from international Jazz publication Jazz Corner (above).

Claire’s May release ‘Directing Traffic’  took a sharp soul bend with full Latin percussion and retro music video enjoying radio play on PBS FM, Joy FM. It garnered high rotation on Venezuelan Radio finding a home in the Venezuelan Jazz community.

Claire  explains: “Directing Traffic’ speaks to processing the world around us and within us whilst having a good boogie at the same time!”

Claire has produced beautiful cinematic music videos from each of the singles already released from the LP that explore the world of each song,  hat tipping Pamela Claire’s filmmaking background. There are many delicate interlacing figures that help define the Pamela Claire experience. This is not a concept album. It is an Art/Music/Film piece.  It is comprised of a series of Vignettes. Each look into a moment in time and space, like an emotional polaroid picture.

The music video for Claire’s February release ‘Let’s Stay Miserable Together’ was nominated for a Best Film award by the New York Movie Awards and presents the life cycle of a marriage in one 3min take. For her new single ‘Thin Air’ Claire has produced a hauntingly beautiful b/w music video that perfectly captures the song’s sweeping sadness and uplifting afterglow.

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Claire says: “‘Thin Air’ is a piano ballad that explores, in a deeply personal way, the sadness and despair felt when important relationships suspend without,  rhyme, reason or resolve.”

Claire’s storytelling leaves you emotionally shipwrecked as the haunting piano figure and trumpet chorus herald something ethereal and timeless.  ‘Thin Air’ masterfully pulls the listener in and washes them up onshore delivering them into an incredibly diverse and beautiful album.

LONELY SETS ME FREE album has been wrung dry and pegged on the line threadbare by the talented Justin Ossher (Producer and Arranger).

Ossher explains: “We created something real and special with a lot of love, depth and integrity.  Like a glass black rose on a pillow of gossamer diamonds in the sky. The album was an opportunity to work with a dedicated songwriter and singer and to include some fine Melbourne musicians in a creation that is timeless and fun.”

Paul Bolger (Initial chart and arrangement consultant), Diego Villalta (Guitar), Adam Spiegel (Bass), Damien Ellis (Drums), Fabian Acuna (Trumpet), Carmen O’Brien (Violin), Luis Poblete (Percussion), Huw Gregory (Piano), Terry Mcleod (Sax), Redmond Black (Crystal Mastering). Photography by Albion Harrison-Naish and Tony Mott.

Pamela Claire is an independent singer/songwriter/filmmaker from Melbourne, Australia. 

Lonely Sets Me Free is timeless and set to be a modern classic.

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AVAILABLE ON VINYL AND CD

Available on all digital streaming platforms
SPOTIFY    APPLEMUSIC

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AMNPLIFY – DB