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Music News: Amy Lee of Evanescence making music again
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Amy Lee of Evanescence making music again
Just Not For Her Band
Frontwoman talks to MTV News about her 'ominous' score for the indie film 'War Story.'
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First things first: Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee isn't talking about the band's lawsuit against their label, Wind-Up Records.
"I can't say a word, I'm sorry," she sighed. "It's really for the best right now."
What she is willing to speak about is the score — her first — she's just recorded with friend and composer Dave Eggar for the indie film "War Story," which will premiere later this month at Sundance. And what she has to say might not be music to the ears of Evanescence fans awaiting the follow-up to their 2011 self-titled album.
"It's going to surprise my fans. It's not what you'd expect; the film is very dark, very introspective. There's not even a lot of dialogue, which is great, because to me it makes this beautiful, sad platform for music," Lee said. "There's a lot of blending of sounds, a lot of ominous tones. I play a lot of keyboard, and a lot of Taurus pedal. There's a lot of low drones.
"There are moments of playing, and it's musical, but there are a lot of moments where Dave and I just built walls of sounds, out of blaring cellos and trombones and synthesizers and harp, all on top of each other," she continued. "Sort of creating new sounds. It's not, like, a soundtrack. it's an atmosphere."
Of course, it's not all atmosphere. Lee did write one new song for director Mark Jackson, but, again, that track is a definite departure from her past material. Which isn't all that surprising, given just how far removed she was from the usual recording-studio dramas when she made it.
"That song is called 'Push the Button.' For a long time, the director, Mark, just couldn't find the right song placement for this one scene that he wanted something really different sounding. So I was like 'You know what? I can do this myself,'" she explained. "It's very different for me, it's electronic; I did it all myself, which was crazy, because I'm used to engineering and writing and mixing demos in my house, but being responsible for that being the end product was a new challenge for me. It was like 'This is it, I'm mixing this.'
"This whole process has been really different, and freeing. Doing my band, it's always been a big deal, a lot of pressure, a lot of hoops to jump through and things to live up to," she continued. "And that pressure can be good when you're making that big project, but this was [different] ... it's not all about the music, it's not all about one thing, it's a big group of people all doing different things to create a bigger piece of art. It wasn't about production and singles and worldwide success, it's about the integrity of the art piece we're creating. And it's definitely not about money, it's indie, low-budget, and I love that."
And while Lee still hasn't seen the final product ("I'll get to see it at Sundance ... there's no way I'm cool enough to be there," she laughed,) the experience of scoring a film — and working in a free-form method with Eggar and other musicians — was one that stuck with her. And one she hopes to replicate again very soon.
"I've been talking about wanting to score forever, and this was my first opportunity to explore that. Dave and I were already talking about taking a meeting for another film, and I definitely want to work with him again," she said. "I'm open-minded. I really like to be in a free place where I'm not boxing myself in; I say that all the time, but that's the goal right now."
Source: http://www.mtv.com/search/article/?q=amy%20lee
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The movie will premiere at Sundance next week.
http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/14034/war_story
Nonetheless, earlier this week she had a radio "interview" talking about the future Evanescence album.
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Evanescence may be mired in legalities with its former record company, but that's not keeping Amy Lee from plotting the group's fourth album.
Lee tells us that she's coming through leftovers from 2011's "Evanescence" as well as coming up with fresh material for the group:
"I definitely have a lot of songs and ideas and things we haven't shared yet and I still believe in them, so...you may still get your chance to hear all that stuff...I really only get into that mode when I'm home and finally separated from the chaos of a public life."
Source: http://www.wmmr.com/gmi/story.aspx?ID=2106150
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Oh and Legends and Lyrics will finally air this year, so we might get to hear Your Love this year.
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Her voice is so amazing. I will support her no matter what, even if that's not really my type of music.
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I need some new Evanescence in my life! Their last album was my least favourite though I hope they can bring something better.
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That's nice!! i'm looking forward to hearing some wonderful melodies and more songs filled with her diverse, captivating lyrics.
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Phew thought this was the other news.....
But yup I saw the new album quote so that's exciting and hopefully a studio version of Find A Way is in War Story
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Coming to slay as always 
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I know I will love it, but I need new Evanescence album now !
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Wow this woman is an amazing musician she is the definition of a truth artist, the way she does music is on another level
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i missed her 
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I'm ready. 
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Finally!
very good news
Your Love
Push the Button
and working on new album! 
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Excited
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Bye, I need new Evanescence music.
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It's ABOUT time.  I love her voice.
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Originally posted by DavidSMateus
Hello Kitty 2.0
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Here for her.
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Originally posted by Gavin.
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Amy being rock and Avril "too", the last one did an electronic sound and it came out as a bit of a mess...
Hoping Amy's electronic is much better 
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Originally posted by DavidSMateus
Amy being rock and Avril "too", the last one did an electronic sound and it came out as a bit of a mess...
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This isn't really her first time doing an electronic song or a song inspired by it, supposed electronic is a broad genre.
These were from 2011
Halfway Down the Stairs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LlkNjmutmM
Swimming Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce1eCG6stLU
Then you have older songs like Even in Death, Away From Me, etc. with electronic elements.
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