Artist's albums
Snakebite
2001 · album
Thrill
2000 · album
Magic Summertime (Live)
2020 · single
Wake Up Again
2019 · album
What's Your Handle (Radio Waves)
2019 · single
Be Together
2019 · single
Circumstance
2019 · single
Don't Forget How Good It Is
2018 · single
I Belong to Someone New
2018 · single
Man on Fire
2017 · single
Good to You
2017 · single
Empty Locket (feat. Milo Jones)
2017 · single
Dark Lights Up
2015 · album
Let's Fly a Kite
2014 · album
I Can See the Future
2012 · album
Artificial Fire
2009 · album
Dis-moi au revoir encore
2007 · single
Miracle Of Five
2007 · album
I Love Paris
2005 · single
Afternoon
2004 · album
Country For True Lovers
2004 · album
Wishbone
2004 · album
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Biography
There are some tantalizingly probing questions posed in the lyrics of Eleni Mandell's new album, Wake Up Again. But none is more key to the album than the one that closes the album, finishing off the wistful waltz of the title song. None is more core to the experiences that inspired her songs in the course of the four years that have gone by since her last album, 2015’s acclaimed Dark Lights Up. “For two years or thereabouts,” Mandell says, "I taught songwriting at two colleges and a women’s prison. I don’t know why exactly I was drawn to that work. But I had a family member who had been in prison in the 1940s. He wasn’t around when I was growing up, but that sort of fascinated me and I was always curious about what kind of person disappears and what kind of person commits crimes — what are they thinking?” Working with the inmates provided many epiphanies for her as a person, and proved fertile for her as an artist, as captured in the 11 songs on this album, her 11th studio release. In many ways it’s the culmination and fulfillment of all the strengths as a writer and performer going back to her start under the tutelage of Chuck E. Weiss, Tom Waits and other top chroniclers of people in the shadows. The result is a set of compellingly personalized portraits and vignettes, probing looks into the lives and minds, the regrets and guilts and hopes of those she met, but ultimately also of her. And us.