Now It's Time

Now It's Time finds songwriter/chanteuse Paula Frazer reconvening her critically-acclaimed group effort Tarnation, her first new recording with the ensemble since the grand exeunt Mirador. The band consists of Frazer, longtime collaborator Patrick Main on piano, and Jasmyn Wong on drums. But as usual, the show belongs to Frazer, who can play any instrument she puts her hand to and who recorded much of the record in her classic Victorian house in the famed Bernal Heights area of San Francisco on a 1/4" 8 track tape machine.

On Now It's Time, Paula Frazer and Tarnation reconnect with their past, presenting an olde tyme sound with whisping swirls of guitars and strings, wonderfully framing Paula's signature angelic voice. The songs depict loss and sorrow but seek and find solace, warmth and comfort in the act of music-making. The immediacy of the writing and production add a pure and fluid sensibility to Frazer's voice that has not been heard before. "August's Song" opens proceedings with a question to a lost lover, wondering if he is happy now that he is wondering alone. "Sleeping Dreams," one of the most beautiful songs Paula has ever written, paints a picture from the other viewpoint, of the lover left alone, silent and temporarily lost. While the album carries a lost, sorrow-filled air throughout, it's presented with grace and beauty that seduces the listener to share in these emotions - which most are all too familiar with as is the role of true art.