Virgin Megastore's Recommendation
"This is an album to relax to and enjoy on a day off - perfect for the autumn is this female vocalist. Popular among our customers, Pandora's Box is featured in the listening stations of our recently renovated Shinjuku branch."
-- Virgin Megastore Shinjuku Branch Manager
"This is an album to relax to and enjoy on a day off - perfect for the autumn is this female vocalist. Popular among our customers, Pandora's Box is featured in the listening stations of our recently renovated Shinjuku branch."
-- Virgin Megastore Shinjuku Branch Manager
"We weren't trying to make a specific kind of album, genre-wise. I wanted to make honest music, and genre is an artificial divider. Personally, I've listened to and loved music from all over and this, I suppose, is simply the result. But I have always been drawn to an acoustic sound, and I'm very interested in beautiful melody."
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cara listened to the pop and folk of the 70s and 80s, and in the late 1980s fell in love with Irish music. "In particular, I listened to a lot of Mary Black. So when we were able actually to go to Ireland and record several tracks with her band, I was thrilled. We worked together on the cover of Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train" and my own "I Need Love", and the results were gorgeous."
Acclaimed Irish guitarist and producer Jimmy Smyth, was in charge of the Dublin sessions of "Pandora's Box". With this kind of personnel, you'd think it would be an album of Irish music, but that is not the case. Although the album has a solid acoustic base, it draws from many musical traditions.
"They say that Ireland is the country of a thousand shades of green. Going there for the first time I was particularly overwhelmed by the brilliantly deep green of the grass, and I borrowed a bit for the album cover!"
Cara Jones brought something back from her trip to this green land: As illustrated in the Greek myth of Pandora's Box she found that it is hope that remains after all is said and done, and if you listen to her album, you will understand.
-- Begin Magazine 11/96 (Kamiyama)
