Jolie Holland and Band

Mystery Girl and Undertheradar are super pleased to announce the return of Jolie Holland to New Zealand in February 2009.

After her last sell out NZ tour in 2005, the Texas-bred singer-song writer is returning - with four piece band - fresh from releasing her new record ‘The Living and The Dead'. This latest offering navigates a new rock approach that is built upon the folk, blues and jazz spectors that populated her three acclaimed previous albums.

Holland composed the songs for her new album during a writing retreat in New Zealand, on the road across North America and Europe and as well as in her old home town of San Francisco. Arising out of her life stories, and from the rich estuaries of the mysterious tales of other adventurers, her songs are grounded by true experience.

'The Living and the Dead' is an exhilarating ride with a higher voltage than the previous albums, music that had already left fans and critics at a loss to describe her singular vision as performer and writer. Holland worked with co-producer Shahzad Ismaily (Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Two Foot Yard, Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog), with contributions from guitar maestros Marc Ribot (who played with Tom Waits and Elvis Costello) and M. Ward (who also produced one song and helped shape the sound of others) and drummer Rachel Blumberg (M. Ward, Bright Eyes, the Decemberists), Holland has created an album that serves as a career statement.

Mystery Girl, 95bFM, Under the Radar & Groove Guide presents

Jolie Holland – with band

• Monday 23 February 2009 – The San Francisco Bath House – Wellington
• Tuesday 24th February 2009 – Galatos – Auckland

Tickets $44.50 + BF: on sale from December 31st from undertheradar.co.nz, Real Groovy Records, Musiquarium, Fast & Loose & Rhythm Discs

“A spooky yet beautiful offering by one of our best musical poets; a true outsider trying to come in from the cold”. – All Music Guide

“The album is downright delightful”. - Lost At sea

“It's a shade more rock and roll, an ounce more blunt, a great deal of fun, and it documents an increasingly confident artist wielding prime, unpretentious material”. - PopMatters