Sharine Midnight Butterfly CD Cover Image and Description

"Midnight Butterfly" CD Cover and Music Description
	"Midnight Butterfly" was another concept album for Sharine, in a similar vein to “Songs of Secret Devotion.” Recorded in 2002-2003 in her tiny studio above a garage in Northridge, California, she worked between the hours of 11 PM and 5 AM, strategically and necessarily avoiding the waking hours of a barking neighborhood dog. Over several months, Sharine arranged and tracked all the vocals and instruments except for “QNA:PNP,” featuring Ron Hagadone on guitar and bass. Before writing any lyrics or music for a new collection, Sharine “glimpsed upon” the concept while still living in Santa Monica. On an evening jog in the midnight hour, she saw a White Checkered butterfly flitting about some shrubs, the world awash in bright full moonglow. (Continued below.)
The lighting contributed later to her incorporation of black and white (some infrared) photography taken by Elde Stewart in various locations in Chatsworth, California. Several of his ethereal photographs from these sessions appeared in Sharine's accompanying monthly calendar of the same title. Musically, Sharine stretched out in writing and production. She focused heavily on guitar tones and precocious arrangements in tracks such as “Let’s Not Call It Love” and “Butterflies Don’t Bleed/Heartbreaker,” and experimented with alternate tunings, as in “Three Dayz in Heaven.” Each of the songs on Midnight Butterfly started as a poem or prose written late at night. The point of convergence for Sharine was a juxtaposition of qualities: Fragility=Strength, Fluttering=Survival. The only song deviating slightly from the concept was “QNA:PNP,” but the title is responsible for the misconnect, according to Sharine. “If you want to understand the song in reference to the album, you have to understand my love for Led Zeppelin’s music and my desire to inquire!” (Email her?!) “All in all, “Midnight Butterfly” is my seasoned response to the beautiful vapid box built especially for mainstream female artists like Madonna, Britney and [Amy] Winehouse who ‘made it’ and want to ‘stay on top,’ shall I say,” states Sharine. CD INFORMATION 10 Tracks: Midnight Butterfly, Let's Not Call It Love, Moment/Memory, Stars Cross, Free My Heart, Heaven in My View/Moonrace, Butterflies Don't Bleed/Heartbreaker, In Between Blue Moons, Three Dayz in Heaven, QNA:PNP. Length 49.9 minutes.
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