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Rebecca Pidgeon
Rebecca Pidgeon and band Live at McCabes- True Stories of UNILLUSION
McCabe's Guitar Shop
3101 Pico Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90405
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The esteemed songwriter, guitarist and vocal stylist Rebecca Pidgeon is set to captivate fans again new with the release of her 12th album, Unillusion, and will be performing it here at McCabes on August 31st.
Recorded primarily at Forward Motion Studios in Los Angeles with long producer Fernando Perdomo, this album marks a return to organic, acoustic sounds of her Chesky Records debut The Raven. Unillusion is being released on CD, digital download and streaming platforms on Toy Canteen Records, August 29.
Pidgeon conceived of Unillusion as a more relaxed and intimate recording from the start to contrast with the intricate, polished, layered sound of her most recent albums. When she discussed her ideas with Perdomo, he had her look at episodes of MTV Unplugged series and Rebecca decided then and there, “It felt like the right approach—minimal, human, with moments that are as stripped down as just voice and acoustic guitar.”
Pidgeon and Fernando went into the studio with a team of outstanding musicians: Perdomo (bass, electric guitar); Andy Studer (violin, viola), Eszter Balint (violin on “Monkey Man” and “Where is the Man”); Matt Tecu (drums); Rebecca on acoustic guitar and vocals. Together they recapture the unfiltered warmth and immediacy of her earliest recordings while showing impressive sonic evolution showcasing her ever-maturing songwriting.
The album’s lyric themes range from the epic to the deeply personal. Tracks like "Dasharatha" draw inspiration from the ancient Indian epic poem, the Ramayana, weaving timeless tales of jealousy, grief, and rebirth into contemporary idiom recalling work like Bob Dylan’s “Isis” or PJ Harvey’s retelling of the Biblical story of Samson and Delilah in “Hair.” More personal tracks venture into raw, emotional territories, resonating with listeners on a deeply human level.
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Rebecca Pidgeon Biography
“Nuanced and assured…Rebecca Pidgeon is one of those rare singers who conveys emotion purely…”
Rolling Stone Magazine
Rebecca Pidgeon was born in Cambridge, MA and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, gravitating towards music as a child. Her parents introduced her to the likes of the Beatles and Joni Mitchell, while she discovered diverse British artists in the late ‘70’s into the ‘80’s from Kate Bush to The Sex Pistols on her own. She fronted the band Ruby Blue on indie label Red Flame Records and then with Polygram UK before relocating to the United States where she launched her solo career.
Fan favorite albums followed including The Raven (1994), The New York Girls’ Club (1996) Four Marys (1998), Tough On Crime (2000), and Behind the Velvet Curtain (2008), four songs appearing in the critically acclaimed film Red Belt.
The ensuing decade saw her release Slingshot (2011), Blue Dress On (2013), Bad Poetry (2014), and Sudden Exposure to Light (2019). Praising the latter, American Songwriter wrote, “She’s the real deal,” and Glide Magazine noted, “Pidgeon’s prolific work as a songwriter and vocalist is akin to the self-immersion she undertakes for her mesmerizing performances on camera.”
Her latest albums are Parts of Speech Pieces of Sound (2023) which …”shares aesthetic space with the ambitious, elaborate, cinematic work that made Kate Bush an icon, tempered with the hypnotic, atmosphere dreamscaping that artists like Weyes Blood and FKA Twigs have drawn from Enya” and Songs of L.A. (2024) which sonically is bright and rock oriented, a return to Pidgeon’s indie rock beginnings.
This year 2025, Rebecca is going to be rolling out her newest album UNILLUSION.
Read MoreRolling Stone Magazine
Rebecca Pidgeon was born in Cambridge, MA and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, gravitating towards music as a child. Her parents introduced her to the likes of the Beatles and Joni Mitchell, while she discovered diverse British artists in the late ‘70’s into the ‘80’s from Kate Bush to The Sex Pistols on her own. She fronted the band Ruby Blue on indie label Red Flame Records and then with Polygram UK before relocating to the United States where she launched her solo career.
Fan favorite albums followed including The Raven (1994), The New York Girls’ Club (1996) Four Marys (1998), Tough On Crime (2000), and Behind the Velvet Curtain (2008), four songs appearing in the critically acclaimed film Red Belt.
The ensuing decade saw her release Slingshot (2011), Blue Dress On (2013), Bad Poetry (2014), and Sudden Exposure to Light (2019). Praising the latter, American Songwriter wrote, “She’s the real deal,” and Glide Magazine noted, “Pidgeon’s prolific work as a songwriter and vocalist is akin to the self-immersion she undertakes for her mesmerizing performances on camera.”
Her latest albums are Parts of Speech Pieces of Sound (2023) which …”shares aesthetic space with the ambitious, elaborate, cinematic work that made Kate Bush an icon, tempered with the hypnotic, atmosphere dreamscaping that artists like Weyes Blood and FKA Twigs have drawn from Enya” and Songs of L.A. (2024) which sonically is bright and rock oriented, a return to Pidgeon’s indie rock beginnings.
This year 2025, Rebecca is going to be rolling out her newest album UNILLUSION.
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