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 TRACK LIST

 Crescent Moon
Happy Ever After
Tell Me What You See
High Tide: August, 2005
Romancing Tomorrow
A Fool Could Find A Way
Before I Fall In Love
Dance Me Around My Room
Who Knows My Secrets
My Heart Is Doing Fine (Thanks For Asking)
Another Way To Be In Love
Four In The Morning

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San Francisco singer /songwriter / pianist Rachel Efron to release her sophomore album, 4AM, August 2009.

4AM is a portrait of a woman stepping bravely forward in her life, but with a final glance over her shoulder at the rich complexity of her past.

“Utterly laid-back piano pop that sucks the tension right out of the room. Efron makes it sound easy but there’s a reason so few artists get it right.”—Nate Seltenrich, East Bay Express

San Francisco singer / songwriter / pianist Rachel Efron will release her sophomore album, 4AM, this August, with local performances in both San Francisco and Berkeley, as well as a full East Coast / West Coast tour spanning Portland, ME to Philadelphia, PA, Seattle, WA to San Diego, CA.

As depicted on the album cover, 4AM is a portrait of a woman stepping bravely forward in her life, but with a final glance over her shoulder at the rich complexity of her past. There is a sense of defiance throughout the album, as though this step is taken painfully and at all costs, but there is also the quiet poise—and from time to time comedic cynicism—revealing the spirit of an artist loathe to present only one shade of a story. Rachel moves unabashedly between the soulful and the playful, the sweet and the commanding, but no matter what the mood, she offers her music sincerely—as an invitation to join her in an inner-landscape at once beautiful, dangerous, serene, and startling.

Rachel’s musical roots extend strongly into her past, from her childhood study of piano, replete with Chopin Nocturnes, Beethoven Sonatas, and Debussy Preludes, to her subsequent foray into jazz and the work of Herbie Hancock and Brad Mehldau, to her later-blooming love for song-craft and the canons of Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and Aimee Mann. 4AM calls to mind the emotional ambience of Tom Waits ballads and the determined exactness of Leonard Cohen lyricism, but with the attitude of a Fiona Apple song or the wistfulness of a Sarah McLachlan performance. She has a melodic intuition that can only be attributed to her enduring fascination with classical music, and a facility with language born of her life-long love affair with all genre of poetry and prose. The result is a combination greater than the sum of the parts: a songwriter with a unique and poetic message, and a beautiful and refined medium.

Rachel has always separated herself from other songwriters, with the delicacy and astuteness of her perspective on the world, and that most precious and rare artistic quality of being able to honestly share herself with her listeners. She astounded critics and listeners alike with her debut release, “Say Goodbye,” in 2006. Nate Seltenrich of the East Bay Express described it as, “Utterly laid-back piano pop that sucks the tension right out of the room. Efron makes it sound easy but there’s a reason so few artists get it right.” Chris Patrick Morgan of the San Francisco Examiner commented, “Rachel Efron combines a light, gentle touch on the piano with the eye and the voice of a poet to make some of the loveliest music one has heard—soft, intimate, ethereal, and strikingly genuine.” Amanda File of the Owl Mag stated simply, “Efron has released an uncommonly lush, mature debut.”

4AM maintains the sincerity of her debut, but possesses the integrity and confidence of a singer / songwriter with a matured sense of herself and her craft. The first track, “Crescent Moon,” is sonically ethereal, and invites the listener to begin what promises to be a lovely and complex journey (“I could show you these maple trees naked in the cold / And I would give to you green and blue stories I have told”). In another standout, “Dance Me Around My Room,” Rachel hones in on her preferred genre of the spooky waltz… Seductive and melodically intense, the song recounts the unbearable juxtaposition of love and alienation in physical intimacy (“I’m alive here for you now / Choose or deny me / If the motions of love are to much to presume well / Just dance me around my room”). The title track, “Four In The Morning,” closes the album as an epic anthem about leaving the thing you most long for in hopes of finding something better (“You can have your heartache with your gin / And you can taste the sweetness of the freedom that you win / Drink it in”).

4AM calls upon the inspired musicianship of both Bay Area and international talent. It was produced by the masterful Jon Evans, bassist for Tori Amos, and features performances by Evans on bass and guitar, Jon Arkin on percussion, Dan Feizsli on bass, Joel Behrman on trumpet, trombone, and flugelhorn, Lylia Guion on violin, and Marcie Brown on cello. The album is available for purchase on iTunes, Amazon.com, the artist’s website , as well as at performances and stores in the Bay Area and beyond.

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Utterly laid-back piano pop that sucks the tension right out of the room. Efron makes it sound easy but there’s a reason so few artists get it right.

— Nate Seltenrich, East Bay Express

Maine expat Rachel Efron combines a light, gentle touch on the piano with the eye and the voice of a poet to make some of the loveliest music one has heard—soft, intimate, ethereal, and strikingly genuine. She’s teamed up with some local Bay Area music biz heavies on her first album, “Say Goodbye,” which has a more formal, structured, piano jazz sort of feel to it—but there are still places, here and there, where the free-spirit in her lilts and flits and lets loose.

— Chris Patrick Morgan, San Francisco Examiner

Bay Area pianist and singer/songwriter Rachel Efron has a brand-new CD titled, “Say Goodbye.” She’s a budding presence on the Bay Area music scene, and I’m sure you’re going to be hearing a lot more from her. On this beautiful debut CD she has stellar accompaniment from bassist Jon Evans, who produced the album, drummer Scott Amendola, with guest appearances by Julie Wolf, Marika Hughes, Dina MacAbee, and others.

— Derk Richardson, KPFA 94.1

There is a sense on this record that the title is the theme; these are therapeutic songs, each a farewell to the moments that inspired them. Efron has released an uncommonly lush, mature debut. With breathy, lilting vocals and a dense backdrop of horns, percussion and her own piano, these 11 tracks are their own universe. Elements of jazz, folk, and even Latin percussion are all present. This is a late afternoon, rainy day album. It showcases the talents of producer Jon Evans and the rest of the backing musicians, whose contributions are invaluable. There’s a definite Aimee Mann / Fiona Apple influence here, but lighter and more fun. “Underneath the Moon” is a great pop-jazz groove that has the best hook on the album. The last track, “Solstice,” seems uniquely solo, a spare strings arrangement behind the delicate vocals and gorgeous piano melody. “Say Goodbye” is, somewhat ironically, an excellent greeting by San Francisco’s Rachel Efron. Give this a listen, preferably when wrapped in a cozy blanket while sipping tea.

— Amanda File, The Owl Mag

... The CD is sweet — not loud, not in your face, but gentle and thoughtful, quietly comfortable. Efron’s voice is sweet, too, like a young Sarah McLachlan (whose earliest work was angelic)... The best song is “What I Know,” kick-starting the CD, and it really entices the listener into anticipating the next song. “An Afterthought (Melting to You)” is mesmerizing... I loved the gorgeous piano solo and horns in the title track, “Say Goodbye”... “Underneath the Moon” shows off Efron’s jazz training, and “Solstice” surprised me with an unexpected crescendo of orchestration... Efron’s lyrics were poignant in their quiet force. In one song she sings, “It’s easy to trust what can’t hurt you”—it struck me as heartbreaking in its context... While there is definitely a feeling of change, transition and perhaps some hardships overcome, “Say Goodbye” does not feel like an emo songfest. It is lighter in tone and owns a haunting sweetness that makes this debut tender and worth hearing.

— J. Fitzpatrick, The Music Scene

Rachel Efron made sure the bases were loaded before finally coming up to the plate. The Oakland-based vocalist-pianist’s debut CD “Say Goodbye” features an impressive cast of players, including drummer Scott Amendola (Madeleine Peyroux) and accordionist Julie Wolf (Ani DiFranco).

To listen to a Rachel Efron song is to be led across an inner-landscape at once beautiful, dangerous, serene, and startling. Rachel offers that rare combination of sophisticated musicianship and commanding lyricism. There is a delicacy and astuteness to her perspective on the world, and she possesses that most precious and rare artistic quality of being able to honestly share herself with her listeners. She is versed in classical, jazz, folk, and pop music, and travels unabashedly between the soulful and sweet, saucy and swinging, by way of her alternately sincere and comically cynical portraits of life and love.

Rachel's released her debut album, "Say Goodbye," in 2006, to unbridled praise from listeners and critics alike. Nate Seltenrich of the East Bay Express described it as, "Utterly laid-back piano pop that sucks the tension right out of the room. Efron makes it sound easy but there's a reason so few artists get it right." Chris Patrick Morgan of the San Francisco Examiner commented, "Rachel Efron combines a light, gentle touch on the piano with the eye and the voice of a poet to make some of the loveliest music one has heard-soft, intimate, ethereal, and strikingly genuine." The album is a collection of 11 original piano/voice-centric alternative/pop songs, produced by the masterful Jon Evans, bassist for Tori Amos, and featuring inspired performances by Evans on bass, Scott Amendola (Nels Cline, Madeleine Peyroux) on drums, and Julie Wolf (Ani Difranco, Erin McKeown) on accordion.

Rachel spent the next years realizing a wealth of new material and performing on both the East Coast and the West Coast. In 2008 she returned to the studio for a second collaboration with Jon Evans, and the result is her new release, "4AM"-an album that maintains the sincerity of her debut, but which possesses the integrity and confidence of a singer/songwriter with a matured sense of herself and her craft. The first track, "Crescent Moon," is sonically ethereal, and invites the listener to begin what promises to be a lovely and complex journey ("I could show you these maple trees naked in the cold / And I would give to you green and blue stories I have told"). In another standout, "Dance Me Around My Room," Rachel hones in on her preferred genre of the spooky waltz? Seductive and melodically intense, the song recounts the unbearable juxtaposition of love and alienation in physical intimacy ("I'm alive here for you now / Choose or deny me / If the motions of love are to much to presume well / Just dance me around my room"). The title track, "Four In The Morning," closes the album as an epic anthem about leaving the thing you most long for in hopes of finding something better ("You can have your heartache with your gin / And you can taste the sweetness of the freedom that you win / Drink it in").

Rachel grew up in a small town on the coast of Maine called Cape Elizabeth-where she took piano lessons, learning the Beethoven Sonatas, Debussy Preludes, and Chopin Etudes that to this day remain, perhaps, her biggest musical influence. In high school she was entranced with singer/songwriters-Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, and Joni Mitchell, to name a few-but it had not yet occurred to her to try her own hand at writing songs. Away at college at Harvard University, Rachel complimented her major in Social Anthropology with a growing seriousness about her music. She took classical music classes, not to mention a handful of poetry and creative writing classes, and once a week made her way across the Charles River to study jazz piano with a professor of music at the Berklee College of Music. In her senior year of college, Rachel finally married her two great loves of music and language and wrote her first song. She scoured the songbooks of Tom Waits, Beth Orton, and Aimee Mann, alongside her deepening engagement in jazz and the work of Billie Holiday, Herbie Hancock, and Brad Mehldau, developed a repertoire of original songs, and started performing.

Upon graduating, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has been writing, performing, and recording ever since. She performs frequently, both solo and with her ensemble (Jon Arkin on drums and Dan Feizsli on bass). She has performed at premier venues, including the Independent (SF), Cafe Du Nord (SF), the Freight and Salvage (Berkeley), The Living Room (NYC), and the Rockwood Music Hall (NYC), and has shared the stage with such national acts as Spencer Day, Jill Sobule, and Sara Bareilles. Her shows and recordings have garnered coverage in Bay Area publications such as the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the San Francisco Examiner, the Oakland Tribune, and the East Bay Express, and her songs have aired on numerous Bay Area radio stations.

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