Brisa ROCHE

Raised in Northern California without electricity, Brisa Roché surfed the waves made by an artist mother and adventurer father, before leaving home with her guitar at 16 to spend the glory days of Grunge in Seattle. There she traded her acoustic for an electric and began roughening up her voice of young Joni Mitchell, inspired by the release of PJ Harvey's "Dry". Various Emo-Pop projects later, a year in Europe, collaborations and compositions, more searching for a voice less pure and more representative of her experience. The death of her father inspired Brisa to turn towards the masculine night-life world of jazz. She moved to Paris and plunged into the role of bandleader and frontwoman, improvising over obscure standards 5 nights a week in the stone "caves" of St. Germain, cutting her teeth and learning to command the stage, choosing to put the vulnerablity of her own songwriting aside, in favor of the intense universal emotion and vocal freedom she discovered through jazz. However, once discovered by Blue Note and signed to EMI in 2004, Brisa released a critically aclaimed first record of spacey, cinematic pop "The Chase", ready once again to confront music through songs written by her own hand..... Her second album, "TAKES" came out on Discograph, psyche-pop with layers of dreamy Californian vocals and an accessible folk element, including

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