Helen's melodic, genre-bending songs detail wide-ranging life situations both on a personal and universal level. Her lyrics often take the listener on intricate trips through the darkest crevices of the soul, pulled through the other side by, if not complete hope, than vital understanding. These journeys are accompanied by a predominantly electronic, yet varied musical palette, pulled from her upbringing in the San Francisco Bay Area: East Bay soul, British Punk and New Wave, South Bay rock and North Bay folk all figure in the tasty, provocative stew that forms her music. The songs on the new CD range from stark electroclash to brooding downtempo, to upbeat pop jazz. Such wide-ranging genre rides belie the often poetic, sometimes political, always adult, lyrical content in her songs, dealing with such themes as magic, adultery, aging, and political independence. "My motto has always been, rightly or wrongly,"Helen says,"that I have an obligation to speak my personal truth, or my personal viewpoints, however I wish to say it." With compositions ranging from the peppy "Requiem for My Singlehood", to the sinister ambience of "Incident at Motel 6", to the jaunty light folk of "Party to An Escape" through the frantic mid-tempo house of "Withdrawal Symptoms", Helen speaks her truth and worldview with style and grace. A classically trained vocalist, Helen performed in various plays and musicals around the Bay Area in the mid-1990's before trying her hand as an recording artist. Have established herself as a musical internet presence in 1999, her songs have topped, or nearly topped, the dance, electronic, alternative, pop and jazz charts on sites such as MP3.com, Soundclick.com, Soundlift.com, and Artistlaunch.com. All content on this page is ©2008 Helen M. Sventitsky-Rother/Jane of All Trades Music (ASCAP)