Diane Coll – Tell Jupiter, Hi

Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Diane Coll is releasing “Tell Jupiter, Hi” today.

Open, ethereal soundscapes draw the listener into a space that combines grief with gratitude and appreciation for the pain life can bring. One lone voice honors pain with a toast: “Wouldn’t have it otherwise, when grace is the prize.”

“I love the contrast between the acoustic guitar and ambient sounds,” Coll says. “It brings me into two different places, simultaneously on earth looking up and from space, looking down.”

Strangely in Tune is Coll’s fifth solo release, a collection of songs celebrating the ambiguous, liminal moments between the bookends of life and death. Coll produced the album with musician, engineer, and friend Jonny Daly.  Both Coll and Daly take on the majority of the instrumentation, along with select guest musicians.

“Nebulous times can break us open and yet, they also contain the alchemy to put us back together,” she says. “Like Kintsugi, broken pottery is mended with gold-flecked glue, then re-fired into a piece of art more beautiful and valuable than its original form. What a metaphor for human resilience.”

 “Carolina Wren,” an early single release, uses a whimsical blend of guitars, vocals, and mellotron to express the sweetness of nature and celebrate how it’s always ready to offer comfort in moments of sadness.

According to Coll, “Being my fifth album, I felt the need to artistically shake things up sonically. Since five is the number of change and adventure, it only was fitting to explore new musical terrain and I knew Jonny Daly, who is a brilliant and intuitive musician, was the perfect collaborative partner for these songs.”

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