MUSIC VIDEO BLOOM HONORING THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE 2025 LA FIRES
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ALT-INDIE-CELLIST–SINGER-SONGWRITER
“Smart, funny and inviting, fantastically laid out and arranged. It opens like a beautiful flower. I think you wrote a hit!”
— Daniel Lanois
ABOUT Wallis Harper
Wallis Harper woke up one morning screaming, “No more dead people!” It wasn’t about ghosts, but playing the cello music of dead composers, who wrote classical pieces a couple hundred years ago. Wallis wanted to play something fresh. And besides, kings throwing chamber music parties has gone out of fashion.
In need of some fast cash, she drove to Venice Beach in Los Angeles to play cello on the Boardwalk. The first day she was asked to join five rock bands. Wallis joined all of them. “I had some serious catching up to do.”
Being in bands inspired her to write songs. “I’d start out sitting up straight like a cellist, but composing a song takes a long time, so after a while I’d slouch & end up fingerpicking it like a guitar. Playing like that created totally different chords, and it sounded beautiful.”
Wallis did most of her growing up in San Francisco and New York. She now lives in a cabin built with the help of friends, on the edge of Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles.
ABOUT fadette
Wallis named her band fadette, after reading a novel by George Sand written in 1849. “Fadette was an outcast in her village. I like reading about people who don’t fit in, because I’ve never fit in. Fadette also had this deep connection with nature, which I have, so that was cool too.”
A woman was the actual author of Fadette. Her real name was Aurore Dupin. In France in 1831, it was difficult for a female author to sell her own writing. Dupin knew a man’s name would sell more books, so she adopted the nom de plume: George Sand.
It was illegal for women to wear pants in France. But, undeterred, Dupin got a permit from the police department to wear men’s clothes (justifying the need as being less expensive). Passing as a man allowed her the freedom to enter venues barred to women. And the pen name gave her invisibility, so her writing could speak for itself.
The idea of invisibility came about accidentally for Wallis when shooting the video for NO ONE ELSE. “I didn’t plan to cover myself up as a gimmick. But I was playing an Alien! And it was oddly gratifying to be invisible. Like George Sand, my writing could speak for itself.”
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