Amber Rubarth is Back in CA to Celebrate Her New Album!

Amber Rubarth is the artist whose wisdom you want to have within an earshot when life carves you jagged edges and you need smoothing.

She is also the disarmingly optimistic girl known for following her number-one-passion through hundreds of tour dates a year, being described by fellow artists as someone whose home is “on the stage” rather than in a particular region of the world. Celebrating the release of her soon-to-be-released album “New Green Lines” at Hotel Café last night, Amber presented herself (barefoot) as a performer poised for growth.

When I spoke to audience members during and after the show, the concept that was repeatedly expressed was “dichotomy.” With a genuine and, at times, child-like voice, Amber tells stories whose insight is associated with several full lifetimes. Most striking is the amount and multiple shapes of love that are memorialized by her songs. There is the type love which exists and fulfills in a way that is more complete than a whole world’s worth of exploring; the type of secret love that lives in the creases of the mind that never sleep; the type that lights a heart for sixty seconds and colors a lifetime’s worth of images; the love that carries with the hope of a washed canvas; the love that is stronger than a drug and as pure as a smile.

Aside from inviting Eric Robinson, Jenni Alpert and Chet Dixon for two songs, Amber managed to create a dazzling impact with just the sounds from her own mouth and guitar / piano. There is a daring rhythm about her voice, which can present a heart-breaking steadiness and then leap octaves like vocal chords on a trampoline. There is comfort in a talent that can be extraordinary in its simplest format, delivering a similarly striking impact with the technology of a sidewalk or that of a New York music hall.

If there is one message to be taken away from time with Amber, whether via album or venue, it is that much of what you need to know about life can be learned from wood-sculpting. From this metaphor, you see that the changes you think are cutting into you (as if to destroy) are actually “carving” you. To this effect, one should not be discontented with who they are at any given point; each person is always relatively “an unfinished art,” needing to be shaped until the day when they can stand looking back at how they used to exist and realize that each alteration was purposeful.

Find more about Amber at http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm15c3BhY2UuY29tL2FtYmVycnViYXJ0aA== and buy "New Green Lines" when it arives on May 6!

Review by Bre Goldsmith ( http://www.bregoldsmith.com/ )