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Multi-instrumentalist Sarah Lipstate brings her innovative music to life under the name Noveller. Forming unexpected sonic routes, her songs are vivid and cinematic. Following several years spent collaborating with Iggy Pop, and touring the world as his guitarist, Lipstate returns with a new album of her own. I Am The Weather further expands her inventive explorations, creating what Pop once described to Jim Jarmusch as Inchsymphonies for people that don't have a lot of time.InchSarah's work as a composer, notably for the HBO Docuseries Breath Of Fire, as well as the Anthony Bourdain documentary Roadrunner, has greatly influenced her new constructions, incorporating piano, percussion and a new studio filled with excitement into her signature guitar sculpting. It is the baby grand at the center of her studio that welcomes you to the record on InchSunday in CopenhagenInch before ceding to a celestial six string swell. The percussive rhythms of InchDivining DanceInch awaken a new morning in InchThe Way of Our FloodInch and walk towards the bowed grace of InchOtherside of Mountainside.Inch Surging into the sky, InchPortmerionInch allows InchBeyond the FellsInch to glide back down to Earth, revealing the album's biggest surprise-a vocal track!It seems fitting given their past, that the first vocals on a Noveller record would be delivered by the legendary Iggy Pop. Written specifically for The Godfather of Punk, a noir-ish tale of a man over-matched by a femme fatale, InchThe Girl Who Was DeathInch builds with tension and . Following their collaboration on the title track to Iggy's album Free, (also used in a global campaign for PETA) and their interpretation of Dylan Thomas' InchDo Not Go Gently Into The NightInch, Iggy was eagerly awaiting the opportunity to add vocals to another Lipstate composition. A scene set as if on opposite ends of a corner booth at the Double R D
