Ravengirl is 15 tracks of beauty, power, & healing. Its polyrhythmic palette of sometimes danceable, sometimes haunting songs surprise & delight every listener. Itâs avant soul folk. Itâs alt-rock. It's acoustic explosive gorgeous music.

15 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Acoustic, JAZZ: World Fusion



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About Ravengirlâ¦
Kristi Martelâs former life partner, Amy Caroline âLittlebirdâ Nuara, died by suicide in August 2003. Kristi and Littlebird had just made plans to move from California back to Rhode Island, because Littlebird liked Providence from her years at RISD, and Kristi missed her homestate. They had also just finalized plans for Kristiâs next CD project, âThe Mule.â Littlebirdâs death changed just about every aspect of Kristiâs life, but she managed to follow through with those two plans, moving to RI in November 2003 and recording âThe Muleâ in January 2004. Although she could not write new songs for 11 months, Kristi began a list of song ideas that she knew would later become "Ravengirl."

The first song Kristi wrote after Littlebirdâs death came from words Littlebird sent to Kristi through a medium. The next answered the hundreds of fan letters Kristi received, fearful that Kristi too would take her own life. The next was a response to Littlebirdâs family and friends who had blamed Kristi for Littlebirdâs death. The next became the title track, a song expressing the miracle of healing trauma through feeling the pain. Kristi kept noticing that she still felt joy every day, in spite of the huge and traumatic loss and grief she also experienced. She noted it, she counted the blessing, and she came up with the goofy joke version that she must be some kind of superhero to still be able to experience joy. Her superhero name is Ravengirl. And the album, with its 7 tracks written before Littlebirdâs death and its 8 tracks written after, will break open your heart to feel your pain only to remind you that that is where youâll heal and find your joy.

About Kristi Martel...
Voted RIâs Best Female Alt-Rock Vocalist in 2006 by Motif Magazine, avant-soul piano diva Kristi Martel grew up in New England and left in 1990 to earn an ASCAP grant and two music degrees (Bard and Mills College) in NY and CA before returning home to RI in 2003. The visionary soulsinger choreographed performance art and composed vocal music to tell stories about relationships, cultural identity, body image, and body memory before beginning her touring and recording career in 2000. Her sweet presence and fearless songwriting endear audiences nationwide.

A finalist in many of the top international songwriting competitions, Kristi's piano playing combines her love of blues dissonance and syncopation with her classical training. Her voice is at once sweet and bitter, able to leap and soar, whisper and rattle, expressive of any emotion she chooses and fluid throughout her 4-octave range. She is visionary in her lyrics and composition, writing her prayers for solace and quirky relationship narratives in the same breath.

Through Sealed Lip Records, Kristi has released six CDs. âRavengirlâ is Kristiâs goofy joke superhero name for herself, her recognition of the crazy blessing it is that she felt joy everyday, amidst the profound grief, after her former life partnerâs suicide in 2003. The album is full up with that joy, with the healing and transformation Kristi has undergone to be singing still so powerfully today.

discography:
Ravengirl (LP 2006)
Quaint & Curious Ravendemos (LP 2005)
The Mule (LP 2004)
bound (single 2003)
brave enough (LP 2001)
give me a little... (EP 2000)