Shilpa Ray - Portrait of a Cat Lady / I'm a Ghost LP the Jerome Foundation's Emerging Artist

the Jerome Foundation's Emerging Artist Program and was a 2014 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn

one can feel contained in this sound world

” Weikart often explores short lyrical mantras until their possibilities are totally exhausted

The three movements of Blade of Love were composed by Battle Trance leader Travis Laplante in a wooden room with soaring ceilings in the Vermont forest

a universalist in her music

Shilpa Ray - Portrait of a Cat Lady / I'm a Ghost LP the Jerome Foundation's Emerging ArtistPortrait Of A Cat Lady, released January 20, 2025, is the first single from a collection of post pandemic post hysterectomy songs written by Shilpa Ray. The lyrics tell a coming of middle age story from a writer who refuses to disappear and is set against a musical backdrop of what Americana could sound like from a second generation immigrant perspective. I'm A Ghost, released May 20, 2025, is the second release in Ray's explorations with Americana