Biography
Eva Louise Goodman shapes drifting, atmospheric psychedelic folk as Nighttime, summoning the vanished worlds of 1960s British folk and itinerant songwriters. After the hazy self-captured debut L'Age d'Or in 2015 and the 2018 follow-up Hand in the Dark, she sharpened her recording methods and elevated her singular head voice by working with an outside engineer. The project's third album, Keeper Is the Heart, arrived in 2023 as its Ba Da Bing introduction; the more collective effort widened the instrumental range while incorporating changes to tape playback speeds and shifts in lyrical vantage points.
A longstanding violinist and vocalist on tour with Jordan Lee's experimental indie folk project Mutual Benefit, Goodman turned to 1960s British folk influences when beginning her first solo recordings, which featured only a few guests. Issued in May 2015 as a home-recorded and self-released Nighttime release, L'Age d'Or came first. October brought Summer EP, written and tracked amid the woods of northern Ontario. She later joined the Black Meadow label for the second Nighttime album, Hand in the Dark, in 2018. Although Goodman wrote, performed, and produced the record herself, she recruited Robert Ferbrache of Blood Axis and Wovenhand to engineer, mix, and master it, placing stronger focus on her airy, spectral vocals.
For her Ba Da Bing debut, Goodman broadened both the roster of players and the instrument selection on the still-intimate Keeper Is the Heart, released in January 2023. Work on the album started in late 2019, yet the extended stretch of pandemic isolation that followed supplied unforeseen time for songwriting and sonic experiments. She eventually reached engineer Rick Spataro's studio, linked to Florist, in upstate New York in March 2021, seeking room for spontaneity and a deliberate turn from perfectionism. Keeper Is the Heart's expanded palette ultimately drew on Mellotron, tempered percussion, synths, woodwinds, and strings in addition to guitars.
A longstanding violinist and vocalist on tour with Jordan Lee's experimental indie folk project Mutual Benefit, Goodman turned to 1960s British folk influences when beginning her first solo recordings, which featured only a few guests. Issued in May 2015 as a home-recorded and self-released Nighttime release, L'Age d'Or came first. October brought Summer EP, written and tracked amid the woods of northern Ontario. She later joined the Black Meadow label for the second Nighttime album, Hand in the Dark, in 2018. Although Goodman wrote, performed, and produced the record herself, she recruited Robert Ferbrache of Blood Axis and Wovenhand to engineer, mix, and master it, placing stronger focus on her airy, spectral vocals.
For her Ba Da Bing debut, Goodman broadened both the roster of players and the instrument selection on the still-intimate Keeper Is the Heart, released in January 2023. Work on the album started in late 2019, yet the extended stretch of pandemic isolation that followed supplied unforeseen time for songwriting and sonic experiments. She eventually reached engineer Rick Spataro's studio, linked to Florist, in upstate New York in March 2021, seeking room for spontaneity and a deliberate turn from perfectionism. Keeper Is the Heart's expanded palette ultimately drew on Mellotron, tempered percussion, synths, woodwinds, and strings in addition to guitars.
Albums
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