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Amanda Kravat’s “Wrong All Day” Sets Solo Career in Motion
12-Song Collection Draws from Film Work and Recent Demos

Amanda Kravat’s first solo effort is “Wrong All Day,” a 12-song collection culled from recent demo sessions and her writings for film. Kravat, the former lead singer and songwriter for Marry Me Jane, was described by Billboard Magazine’s Timothy White as “one of the most distinctive vocalists of the 90s. Kravat’s prideful but plaintive approach showed a keen facility for deep, dusky vulnerability and an uplifting declarative power...”

Now, as Amanda Kravat sets forth on her own, her fragile, crackling voice, alongside such eerie verses as “I will come undone / You will succumb / I will be vestal / You will bleed” (from ‘Green’) will define the solo work as that of a unique and serious new presence on the music scene...smart and sexy, slightly off-kilter yet instantly memorable.

The CD “Wrong All Day” evolved out of Kravat’s efforts to make the song ‘Green’ available to her fans. ‘Green,’ a hypnotic, haunting love song, first appeared in the independent film “Fall.” The ballad, which was not available on CD, sparked immediate interest among loyal Marry Me Jane fans. Their efforts to track down the unreleased song intensified once “Fall” became available on video -- in fact, an unauthorized version of ‘Green’ ultimately ended up circulating on the Web in MP3 format, with the film’s dialogue heard over the music! It turned out that fans were renting the movie, hooking up VCRs to their stereos, and recording ‘Green’ as it was played during the final minutes of the film. Via mail, web-postings and word-of-mouth, Amanda Kravat ultimately heard the steady clamor to ready an authorized, CD-version of the original recording. And, as that process unfolded, “Wrong All Day” came together.

“Wrong All Day” draws upon Kravat’s music from four sources: the independent films “Fall,” “Wirey Spindell” and “Never Again,” and from recent song demos recorded by Kravat in Greece and in New York. The songs range from unpolished gems to full studio productions -- Kravat’s ‘Steady Now’ serves as the love theme for the upcoming motion picture “Never Again,” which stars Jill Clayburgh, Jeffrey Tambor and Sandy Duncan. Of the new demos, ‘I Don’t Wanna Be Your Girlfriend’ offers fierce, threatening vocals and pointed lyrics; ‘Killin’ Time’ presents a near-cinematic landscape of desperation; ‘Do Fish Cry?’ takes an oblique swipe at loneliness, while the CD’s title track launches an upbeat approach to the fact that we all screw up our relationships. Kravat rollicks through the infectious ‘One More Day’ and pokes fun at herself (and her bright-orange-red hair) in ‘Dollhouse.’ With the diversity of demos and music recorded for film but unreleased commercially, Kravat decided to put them on CD along with ‘Green,’ and the result is “Wrong All Day”.

Another defining song on the new CD is ‘Fraulein’ -- a slow, deliberate tale of lost love. The song feels and sounds like an old-fashioned novel, with its simple and beautiful lyrics setting the mournful tone: “The way I fell and broke / that night you called and we spoke / softly / for hours...I’m not asking for the universe / I just want a little light on me first / I’m losing you in pieces.” Originally recorded on four-track cassette, ‘Fraulein’ retains its rough edges and captures the grainy texture of an old photograph, sweeping the listener away.

Amanda Kravat has personally overseen every aspect of the CD’s preparation, packaging and distribution. Via the amandakravat.com website, fans were able to pre-order the album and have since used the site’s bulletin board to voice their excitement about the new music. Kravat has begun performing in support of “Wrong All Day,” playing to packed audiences in her native New York City. More tour dates are scheduled for this Spring, as are plans for broader retail distribution of the CD later this Summer.

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