SIMONA SMIRNOVA

 Simona Smirnova wants to show you who she is. On her forthcoming LP, Bird Language, the Lithuania-born, New York-based vocalist/composer forgoes the fictional narrative elements that characterized her previous releases, instead crafting a sonic portrait of the artist and the world that has shaped her. “Both of my previous records were inspired by a fictional or historical figure,” says Smirnova. “For this third album, I wanted to represent myself as I am. Rather than shielding myself with a fictional character, this record is meant to expose me as a person and musician.”

Smirnova has been creating Bird Language for the past three years, writing and arranging compositions at her piano, demoing and recording alongside a jazz quartet, reworking and performing the arrangements, and ultimately teaming up with co-producer Maksim Perepelica and engineer Mike Marciano at Samurai Hotel Recording Studio in Queens, NY to record the album. Though Smirnova is the core vocalist, composer and songwriter, her ensemble for Bird Language also includes pianist Caili O’Doherty, drummer M. Ch. and Maksim Perepelica on bass. At the album release show Simona will be performing with her jazz quartet.