PRESS
“Wildflower is filled with kindness and compassion, with tenderness and yearning, with deeply felt humanity. The playing throughout is delicate and certain and unafraid… The whole thing is rather like stumbling upon a field of wildflowers in an abandoned subdivision.” - No Depression
No Depression review of Wildflower
“There may not be a more gorgeous song about the shattering end of a relationship than Zoe Boekbinder’s “I Am Yesterday.”” - FolkAlley
FolkAlley feature of I Am Yesterday
Goldmine interview for I Am Yesterday release.
“Zoe Boekbinder is tipping the scales of gender equality in music.” - INTO Magazine
Rolling Stone feature of Long Time Gone
“[Long Time Gone] is really powerful and it needs to circulate more.” - Angela Davis
“Long Time Gone features some classic blues-style lyrics, and sports a big, danceable production that may remind you of Moby’s Natural Blues – not a bad thing at all. With lead vocals by Boekbinder and Princess Shaw, and a choral sound that builds with the song, “Long Time Gone” is a winner.” - WNYC
“[Long Time Gone is] one of the most hypnotically singular-sounding releases of the year so far.” - Salon
“Long Time Gone closes with the song “Villain.” It cuts to the quick of the issues behind the dehumanization and capitalization of convicts and the perception of these individuals as less than human. It’s boldly arranged with the type of hook-y melody you’d expect from Halsey.” - No Depression
BIO
Nomadic at heart and a creator at their core, Zoe Boekbinder (they/them) was born on a farm into a family of four children. While music wasn't very present in their upbringing, Boekbinder recalls some of their first memories as making up songs. For them, music is as natural and as necessary as breath, and the way they engage as an activist. Boekbinder was raised, in part, by their grandfather — a Holocaust survivor. Having survived the horrific, prejudiced violence of his past, he instilled in Boekbinder a deep belief in justice. Songwriting has become their resistance language.
Boekbinder is one of the founding creators of the Prison Music Project and the album, Long Time Gone. Formerly one half of the band Vermillion Lies, Zoe performs both as a solo artist and in collaborations with artists including Ani DiFranco, Amanda Palmer and Julie Odell.
Photos on website by Alessandra Leimer, Justin Nunnink, Krys fox. Illustration on Prison Music Project page by Wendy MacNaughton.
BOOKING
zoeboekbinder at gmail dot com
LABEL
Are and Be Recordings