PureVolume

jilts, lilts, tilts, twists and turns. go up, go down, get up, get down. stomping on things, banging on things, pounding on things. the world would be a better place if everybody was a machine. it's the usual darkness that gets us. sometimes, when we aren't looking, sunlight hitting a tree can change our lives. but for the most part, it's everything we don't want it to be.

ella longpre was just named best singer/songwriter in the pioneer valley.

elep, po.so.co., and dust be your savior now available.

and dust savior is on myspace.

what other people say:
She's wearing glasses, modestly dressed in a black tee-shirt and jeans, so it takes a while for the sensuality of her voice to sink in, her big, rich vibrato busting out of the lower registers.
-blurt magazine

The disc is white with the outline of a horse hand-sketched in black. A hand-crafted insert on regular printer paper contains a song list typed in old-school typewriter style type set... The first thing that caught my attention was Ella's voice. Soulful, pitch perfect and somehow emotive of a strange, deep knowledge about impermanence and other Buddhist-type things, Ella's voice is like a combo of Norah Jones, Bjork, Ani DiFranco and Leonard Cohen.
-valley advocate

Murder chain gang gospel. Emotionally exhausting and bittersweet. If Flannery O' Connor was a corn-husk-voiced songsmith... well I guess it probably wouldn't sound like this.
-adam kozak said this!

It sounds like watching a David Lynch movie.
-ben hersey

Once a writer always a writer.
-vito acconci said this, about something else