Aimee Mann, I See You (new song), live at Mountain Winery, Saratoga, CA, Sept. 12, 2021 (4K)

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Aimee Mann plays a new unreleased song called "I See You" live in concert at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California on September 12, 2021. I See You is from a set of songs Mann wrote for an upcoming "Girl, Interrupted" musical based on Susannah Kaysen’s memoir about her time spent in a psychiatric hospital. The song will appear on Aimee Mann's upcoming “Queens Of The Summer Hotel" album. Aimee Mann opened for Rufus Wainwright as a "special guest" for three California dates of his Unfollow The Rules tour: The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on September 9, Humphrey's By The Bay in San Diego on September 10, and this show at the Mountain Winery in the Bay Area. Joining her onstage were Adam Tressler (guitar), Paul Bryan (bass), Patrick Warren (keyboards), and John Sands (drums). ===================================== Aimee Mann official bio: Queens of The Summer Hotel, the new album from Aimee Mann, is set for release on November 5 via her own SuperEgo Records. Mann started developing the new music in 2018 when she agreed to write songs for a stage adaptation of Girl, Interrupted, Susannah Kaysen’s memoir about her psychiatric hospitalization in the late 1960s. It was material that Mann understood well, having had her own struggles with mental illness. The resulting music comes together in Queens of The Summer Hotel. The album consists of a song cycle constructed from music that Mann wrote for the show, sung by Mann and orchestrated with her longtime collaborator Paul Bryan, using strings and woodwinds in a nod to the project’s theatrical origins. In celebration of the forthcoming record, Mann is debuting the lead single, “Suicide Is Murder,” today alongside an accompanying music video starring James Urbaniak, and directed and produced by Puloma Basu and Rob Hatch-Miller. In many ways, Queens of The Summer Hotel is the unintentional part two to Mann’s 2017’s Grammy-winning album Mental Illness—both exploring themes of self-harm, depression and suicide. However, Queens of The Summer Hotel was written more quickly than any of Mann’s previous records. The assignment to write songs for someone else’s project offered Mann a sense of liberation, freeing her to enter another person’s consciousness and story—and a brand-new set of musical structures—through the lens of Kaysen’s own alienation. Although several different characters narrate the songs, they’re not strictly tied to any narrative. But together, they form a portrait of one woman’s crisis of disassociation as seen through another woman’s eyes. After several albums with ’Til Tuesday, Mann began her solo career in 1993 with the album Whatever and made a name for herself through her independent success and the founding of her record label, SuperEgo Records. Along the way, Mann forged a powerful new sound driven by her distinctive singing style—stripped-down, folky, acoustic but also forceful and cerebral, exploring psychological themes with dark wit and an eye for the world’s ugliest power plays. In 2017, Mann released her acclaimed album Mental Illness, which won Best Folk Album at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. The New York Times proclaimed, “Mental Illness wallows in its troubles, and it’s an exquisite wallow,” while The Los Angeles Times declared “Every doomed syllable is sacred and every tragic rhyme fits, as though each song were a puzzle to which only Mann knows the solution.” In addition to her solo albums, she has appeared on many film soundtracks, most notably the score for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, with “Save Me” landing her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Original Song. Mann has also made numerous cameo appearances in films such as The Big Lebowski and TV shows like “Portlandia” and “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” in which she sang an indelible cover of The Cars’ song “Drive.” Other extracurricular activities include performing for President Obama and the First Lady at the White House and starting a Podcast with Ted Leo called “The Art of Process.”