Liz Lamere Shares Video Ahead Of New Album One Never Knows Out June 14 / Alan Vega Biography Out June 18

LIZ LAMERE SHARES VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE “VIBRATION” DIRECTED BY JASMINE HIRST
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NEW ALBUM, ONE NEVER KNOWS, OUT JUNE 14 ON IN THE RED RECORDS
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“INFINITE DREAMS – THE LIFE OF ALAN VEGA” BIOGRAPHY CO-WRITTEN BY LIZ LAMERE & LAURA DAVIS-CHANIN PUBLISHED JUNE 18 VIA BACKBEAT BOOKS

 

Photo: Jasmine Hirst 

 

Pledging to Keep it Alive with her debut album in 2022 (In The Red), Liz Lamere doubles down with her latest full-length second album, One Never Knows, released on In The Red, June 14. Dedicated to her late partner Alan Vega, with whom she collaborated on his solo works for over three decades, Lamere’s minimalist approach to creating music is clearly in line with the Vega aesthetic that she helped develop with him during countless experimental hours in the studio since the late 80s.

 

Today sees the release of lead single, “Vibration,” with an accompanying video directed by filmmaker and photographic artist, Jasmine Hirst. Says Lamere; "Vibration is about personal empowerment. The pulse represents our life force and the power that comes from within. It's about commanding that force and manifesting what we want to see in the mirror's reflection. It's about believing until the impossible becomes the probable."

 

"The video intentionally captures the expressions of one's personal movements within the song. Movements that are both poetically calm and violently harsh are juxtaposed to transform into various stages of oneself and the subliminal influences that are contained within the song. The video was shot by Jasmine Hirst in one day in New York City."

 

Lamere teamed up again with her and Vega’s son Dante Vega Lamere in their Dujang Prang NYC home studio surrounded by the Suicide singer’s spectacular light sculptures, co-producer Jared Artaud, and mixing and mastering engineers Ted Young and Josh Bonati.

 

One Never Knows is thematically charged with Lamere’s genre-defying boundless sonic energy and unparalleled poetically driven lyrics. Each song threads the needle with the defiant lust for life energy that motivated Lamere through her early double life as both high-end Wall Street lawyer and downtown New York punk drummer, then meeting her life partner and performing, writing, recording and touring internationally with Alan Vega from 1985 until his death in 2016. Since then, together with Artaud she has co-produced two Vega albums from the vast Vega Vault archives, Mutator (Sacred Bones, 2021) and Insurrection, released on May 31, 2024 on In the Red Records.

 

Vega had always encouraged Liz to create her own music. After he passed away, she began writing as a form of catharsis, which became the inspirational bedrock for her solo music. Lamere said, “at the end of Alan’s life, he was using the expression “one never knows” to underscore that we don't know how much time we have in this realm or where this journey will lead us. It was a phrase that had resonated so much for me. Alan taught me to go bravely into the unknown; to be fully present in the moment and deeply explore what is already here.”

 

As for the themes on “ONK,” Lamere says, “this album touches on universal themes and variations on those ideas that are very personal to me. I hope it will also resonate with listeners. Knowing we never fully know, accepting the certainty of uncertainty and striving to keep learning and growing is incredibly freeing.”

 

Artwork: Jasmine Hirst 

 

ONE NEVER KNOWS track list:

 

KING CITY GHOST
STRIKE
VIBRATION
MIND
MOMENT
IF ONLY
NO REGRETS

 

In addition to recording, touring, producing albums and continuing to be very active in the boxing community, Lamere co-wrote with Laura Davis-Chanin the first ever definitive Alan Vega biography entitled Infinite Dreams – The Life of Alan Vega, with a foreword by Bruce Springsteen, which will be published June 18 on Backbeat Books. Lamere and Dante Vega Lamere will be at the book release, reading and signing as part of the Suicide tribute, Sally Can’t Dance / Suicide Sally at Bowery Electric on June 20.

 

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