Jennifer Charles (middle), with Mike Patton & Dan the Automator in "Lovage"

Jennifer Charles (b. November 15, 1968, Washington, D.C.) is a jew singer and composer. Along with Oren Bloedow, she co-founded the New York band Elysian Fields. Image File history File links Lovage_promophoto. ... Image File history File links Lovage_promophoto. ... Michael Allan Patton (born January 27, 1968, in Eureka, California), is an American singer, songwriter, musician and composer. ... Dan the Automator Nakamura is a Japanese American, born in San Francisco, California, a hip-hop and rap producer most known for his work in the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s. ... Mike Patton, Jennifer Charles & Dan the Automator For other uses, see Lovage (disambiguation). ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - City Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D... Oren Bloedow is a singer, guitarist and composer. ... Elysian Fields in concert Elysian Fields is a New York Dream Pop group founded in 1995 by co-composers Jennifer Charles (vocals) and Oren Bloedow (guitar). ...

Biography

While Charles was growing up, her mother was a singer in Washington clubs and her father had a radio show that played jazz songs. Charles studied theater; She appeared in plays and experimental theatre at places like The Studio and The Source. Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212... Romeo and Juliet by Ford Madox Brown A play, written by a playwright, or dramatist, is a form of literature, almost always consisting of dialog between characters, and intended for performance rather than reading. ...

Upon graduating from N.Y.U. (B.F.A. Tisch Sch of Arts), besides acting, she supported herself with a variety of jobs such as waitressing, working as an artists model, singing jazz and torch songs in a piano bar, and curating a performance/poetry series at the original Knitting Factory. New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ...

Elysian Fields were founded in 1995, and have released four full length records (five counting one produced by Steve Albini that was suppressed). They have also contributed to many compilation CDs including the first song on John Zorn's Serge Gainsbourg album. This song, their rendition of "Les Amours Perdues", also appeared in Lea Pool's film "Emporte Moi". Serge Gainsbourg (April 2, 1928 – March 2, 1991) was a French poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. ...

Besides co-leading Elysian Fields, Charles also works on other projects. She and Bloedow recorded La Mar Enfortuna featuring renditions of Sephardic and Ladino songs. [1] In the strictest sense, a Sephardi (ספרדי, Standard Hebrew Səfardi, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardî; plural Sephardim: ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Səfardim, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardîm) is a Jew original to the... This article deals with the Judaeo-Spanish language. ...

Charles also makes up one third of the band Lovage , along with Dan the Automator and Mike Patton; they recorded an album called "Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By" for which she co-wrote and sung most of the material, which became something of a cult album favorite. She has also worked with bands like Firewater, turning in notable performances on "The Circus" and "Mr. Cardiac" from 1996s Get Off The Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire., Xian Hawkin's "Sybarite", the latest Foetus record, "Love", as well as appearing on several of John Zorn's records. Mike Patton, Jennifer Charles & Dan the Automator For other uses, see Lovage (disambiguation). ... Dan the Automator Nakamura is a Japanese American, born in San Francisco, California, a hip-hop and rap producer most known for his work in the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s. ... Michael Allan Patton (born January 27, 1968, in Eureka, California), is an American singer, songwriter, musician and composer. ... Firewater is an indie rock group founded by Tod A. in 1995. ... Foetus is the main entity of industrial music pioneer J.G. Thirlwell. ... John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in Queens, USA) is a Jewish American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. ...

She has studied Classical Indian singing with teacher Gulamji.

Charles recorded in French with the French composer Jean-Louis Murat for the album A bird on a poire in 2004, which was nominated for a Victoires de la Musique award best pop album. Jean-Louis Murat (28 January 1952) is the pseudonym of the French singer / songwriter Jean-Louis Bergheaud. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

She had a guest spot on ex-Nine Inch Nails drummer Chris Vrenna's solo project Tweaker. She sang and co-composed the track "Crude Sunlight", which appeared on the 2004 album "2am Wakeup Call". Charles also co-composed music with Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heill (Run Lola Run) for the film Tangled. A version of Bob Dylan's Tangled up in Blue performed by Elysian Fields can be heard in the film's credits. Chris Vrenna (born in Erie, Pennsylvania on February 23, 1967) is an American musician, Grammy-winning producer, drummer, engineer, remixer, songwriter and programmer, and is a former drummer for Nine Inch Nails (1990–96). ... Look up tweak in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Other Ones was a band that consisted mainly of Australians, but was based in Berlin in the late 1980s. ... Run Lola Run (original German title Lola rennt, which translates to Lola Runs) is a 1998 film by German screenwriter and director Tom Tykwer, starring Franka Potente as Lola. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is a Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ...

2006 saw her in the role of producer for the latest Oren Bloedow record. Oren Bloedow is a singer, guitarist and composer. ...

Discography

2006 Ben Perowsky's Moodswing Orchestra, El Destructo (writer, voc)

2006 Elysian Fields Bum Raps And Love Taps, Diluvian/Naive (writer, voc, keyboards)

2005 Foetus Love, Birdman Records (voc)

2004 Jean Louis Murat A Bird On A Poir, Labels (voc)

2004, 2003 Elysian Fields Dreams That Breathe Your Name, Diluvian (writer, voc, farfisa)

2004 Tweaker 2 AM Wake-Up Call, IMUSIC (writer, voc)

2003 Ben Perowsky Camp Songs, Tzadik (voc)

2003 Sasha Argov Great Jewish Music, Tzadik (voc)

2003 Foetus A Tribute to the Sisters of Mercy, EFA (voc,writer)

2002 Frank London Scientist at Work, Tzadik (voc)

2002 John Zorn Film Works XII - Three Documentaries, Tzadik (voc)

2002 Sybarite Scene of the Crime, 4AD (writer, voc)

2002 John Zorn IAO Music In Sacred Light, Tzadik (voc)

2002 illy B Drop the Needle, Amulet (writer, voc)

2001 Zoar Clouds Without Water, (voc)

2001 Lovage Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By, 75 Ark (writer, voc) Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By is the debut album of Lovage and it was released in 2001. ...

2001 Firewater Psychopharmachology, Jetset. (voc)

2001 Oren Bloedow and Jennifer Charles La Mar Enfortuna, Tzadik. (voc, bells, wurli, writer)

2000 Elysian Fields Queen of the Meadow, Jetset. (writer, voc, mini moog, gtr, wurli)

1999 Liminal *unreleased. (writer, voc)

1999 What's the Word vol.1 Various Artists, Deezal. (writer, voc, piano)

1999 DJ Logic Project Logic, Ropeadope. (writer, voc)

1999 Jean Louis Murat Mustango, Labels. (voc)

1998 Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan Various Artists, Tzadik. (voc)

1998 Elysian Fields The Albini record, *unreleased Radioactive. (writer, voc)

1998 Oren Bloedow The Luckiest Boy in the World, Knitting Factory Works. (bgv)

1997 Elysian Fields Meets DJ Cam, Radioactive. (writer, voc)

1997 Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg Various Artists, Tzadik. (voc)

1997 Life in a Blender Two Legs Bad, Fang. (phoned in whispers)

1997 Live Secret Samadhi, Radioactive. (bgv)

1996 Jennifer and Kenny Siegel Sessions *unreleased (voc)

1996 Firewater Get Off The Cross...We Need The Wood For The Fire, Jetset. (voc)

1996 Elysian Fields Bleed Your Cedar, Radioactive. (writer, voc, rhythm king, perc)

1996 Elysian Fields Elysian Fields EP, Radioactive. (writer, voc)

1992 Oren Bloedow, Knitting Factory Works. (bgv)

External links

• blackacres.net fansite dedicated to Jennifer Charles' band Elysian Fields
• [2] Elysian Fields Website