New photoshoot added, gorgeous, with Juliette portraiting people like Bonnie Parker, Mick Jagger, Coco Chanel. Check it:

Photoshoots: Session 036

The Album, Terra Incognita, is due for release on 31st August, but is now available to pre-order at:

http://www.theomegaorder.com/juliettelewis
http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/9216877/Terra-Incognita/Product.html

Tracklisting:

1. Romeo
2. All Is For God
3. Ghosts
4. Fantasy Bar
5. Hard Lovin’ Woman
6. Terra Incognita
7. Uh Huh
8. Female Persecution
9. Junkyard Heart
10. Intro
11. Noche Sin Fin
12. Suicide Dive Bombers

Hey all! Yeah, it’s me, Luciana, I’m back on board of Versatile. I miss the site so much.

I’ve added some pictures of last Juliette concert, with The Pretenders, on Central Park.

Public Appearances » 2009: Performance at Central Park Summer Stage, August 10

On a sweltering summer evening at New York’s Central Park SummerStage, actress turned musician Juliette Lewis bounces onto the stage dripping in multicolored sequins and issues a strict order: “I’m going to give you energy, you’re going to give some back, and then we’re going to double it, triple it!”

The star of Natural Born Killers and Cape Fear (which earned her an Oscar nomination) seems to approach music with the same fearlessness she brings to the screen, unleashing stage performances that are raw, kinetic, frenzied, possessed. She currently shares a touring bill with Cat Power and The Pretenders, and opens each show by riling up the audience, even if it takes jumping into the crowd or taunting the quiet ones in the bleachers. In contrast to the long line of famous Hollywood actors who have tackled music careers only to end up limping away in humiliated defeat, Ms. Lewis has been going strong for six years—touring relentlessly during that time—and she fully intends to stay.

NATURAL BORN KILLERS star JULIETTE LEWIS has opened up about her romance with BRAD PITT, calling her time with the budding movie stud “lovely”.
Lewis and Pitt started dating years before they became big stars and were together when their breakthrough roles in Thelma & Louise and Cape Fear were released six months apart in 1991.
Though they split soon after, Lewis has nothing but fond memories of the time she spent as Pitt’s partner.
She tells Black Book magazine, “It was such a lovely time in my life… because we were anonymous. We were both struggling actors and Brad blew up after we were together… We were just unknown young actors in L.A.
“I even remember his little bungalow that we lived in off Melrose (Avenue), that we’d smoke lots of pot in.
“Then we split and he became Brad Pitt.”
Lewis admits she’s happy she wasn’t caught up in her ex-lover’s superstardom and everything that came with it – like her The Baster co-star Jennifer Aniston, Pitt’s ex-wife, was.
She adds, “It’s so hard but she handles it with such grace and humour.”

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Juliette Lewis, best known for her performances in films like Natural Born Killers and From Dusk Till Dawn, took a few minutes off during layover en route to Austin to chat with us about her new band, Juliette and the New Romantiques. The group is the second musical project for Lewis, who toured and released the 2007 album Four on the Floor with Juliette and the Licks. Lewis was fresh off of shooting for Betty Anne Waters, directed by Tony Goldwyn and starring Hilary Swank.

Is it hard to switch gears straight from doing a movie to doing music?

It used to be, but now I find that songwriting and acting, drama, they feed each other. I’m a better actress because I’m a songwriter, and I’m a better songwriter because I work with drama and emotion. Yesterday I played an alcoholic, downtrodden, forty year old – they aged me with makeup. That was intense, but I love it. When you make movies, it seems pretty darn relaxed after you’ve toured on a bus or a van for two years. I’ve toured in a van, so I know that a bus is a luxury.

An actress of startling range, Juliette Lewis has released an EP and two albums since 2003 with her band the Licks.

Citing a desire to strike out in new directions, Lewis disbanded the group in 2009, forming the New Romantiques soon after. The resulting album, “Terra Incognita,” produced by The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, is exhilarating and exhausting — spacey, Latin-tinged, tribal, grungy, droney, occasionally bluesy and even, just for a second, a little country. The sonic variance, though, is anchored by Lewis’ gravelly, brazen yowl, which sounds like Patti Smith one minute and Kim Deal the next. Billboard caught up with Lewis by phone when she was in central Italy in the middle of a European tour.

Billboard: Where are you right now?

Juliette Lewis: Napoli. I’ve never been here. It’s a time-table Rubik’s Cube lining up press, but touring’s great … It’s an endurance test on the senses. Yesterday was a 12-hour airport extravaganza. It was like serving prison time, but my band and I are so goofy, and we joke around and it’s fine. We did it all on four hours’ sleep — but it’s so great: You get onstage, you push yourself to the limit.

Billboard: The first noticeable thing about “Terra Incognita” is that it covers an incredible amount of sonic ground.

Lewis: It’s a smorgasbord. It’s filled with sonic contrast, and the sonic contrast represents human and my contradictions. I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel. When I wrote this album I felt disillusioned and optimistic. I felt innocent and vulnerable as much as I felt cynical and strong.

That’s my emotional context, so the sonic contrast of (the record) fit. The heavy bottom — the drum sounds are so f—ing meaty — anchors it, and the guitar textures accentuate the story. Omar was the perfect producer for that.

Billboard: Rodriguez-Lopez has said he’s meticulous and hard to work with. What was your experience like?

Lewis: He’s not that way with me. With his own stuff he cracks the whip in a very particular way. He’s a conductor, he’s a mad conductor. He literally conducts with his hands and his mouth — he beatboxes it. But in this case I was the artist, so I was hard to deal with. Not really!

Our union, though, was a match made in heaven. He’s much more versed in music and he’s a bit of a genius, but we speak similarly because he hears riffs and to him it’s connected to everything else — to the stars and people and cinema.

Billboard: So how did the recording process work then?

Lewis: I would talk my wacky language to him and he’d interpret it to the drummer. I’d say, “I want it to sound like Zeus woke up from a nap and he’s pissed and there’s an opening in the clouds and he starts handing out lightning bolts,” which is crazy, but that’s how I hear the rhythm. And Omar, he whispers some things to the drummer, and that’s exactly what it sounds like. It really encouraged the songwriter within me.

Billboard: Do your acting and songwriting come from the same place?

Lewis: They’re interrelated. It’s like a painter who’s painting with oil, then you decide, “I’m only going to make junk art.” You’re still an artist, your medium is different. Now I work with sounds but I still connect with that center. It’s all a sense of surrender and an attempt to connect.

Acting is me, but music is even more me. It’s everything. It’s the bitch’s brew. It’s my past self, present and future, and then my imagination. Being an actor is like being a bass player, one of the component parts to the collective hole.

Billboard: And so fronting the New Romantiques is like being the writer-director?

Lewis: Yeah, it’s the writer-director and … (laughs) I don’t know if the metaphor fully translates, but yeah, the writer and director — and the emotionalist.

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