Zoe FitzGerald Carter: CD Release Event

Bay Area singer-songwriter, Zoe FitzGerald Carter's latest album, Before the Machine, drops on June 7, 2024. The album weaves a rich fabric of folk, rock, blues and jazz and features a stellar cast of top Bay Area musicians. Inspired by memories of a pre-smart phone world, the title track explores how technology, and specifically smart phones, has changed our experience of time. Most of us live "in the machine,” but there was another world not so long ago. The world Before the Machine.

Picking up where Zoe’s last album, Waterlines, left off, Before the Machine further showcases the artist’s vivid, literary sense of language while weaving a rich and confident fabric of folk, country, rock, blues and jazz.

From the achingly intimate beauty of Angel Bus to the sultry rocker Magic Bus, to the Tom Waits-eque evocation of New York City on Let’s Just Stay Friends, this wide-ranging 9-track LP features a stellar cast of top Bay Area musicians and, like Waterlines, was produced by Jeffrey Wood at Fantasy Studio in Berkeley, CA. 

“Zoe’s writing talent is boundless. Her stories captivate even before you add the music.Each song is like a film. It takes you on a journey.And her voice is mesmerizing – crystalline, clear and cool.”
— Producer Jeffrey Wood (Fantasy Records)

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