Nite Jewel

If you liked the recent Nite Jewel 12'' on Italians Do It Better then you'll be interested in Good Evening, her debut album. Nite Jewel is the performing moniker of Ramona Gonzalez, a composer, songwriter, and multimedia artist from Los Angeles, who has exhibited a number of video and sound installation pieces. The Nite Jewel project is a remarkable combination of revisionist Bronx pop and hazy musical impressionism. Like her ex-pop peers, Ariel Rosenberg and Geneva Jacuzzi, she records solely on portable 8-track cassette deck, often composing her songs by using layered tape edits. In Nite Jewel's case, however, the quality of her chosen medium seems to be neither a means nor an end, but rather a device to lend an ethereal kind of efficacy to the golden age of alternative disco. As influences, she has cited dance floor greats Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, Debbie Deb, 90s R&B, as well as experimental, new age, and shoegazer.