Sara Wendt

A former lead singer of the East Village cult band, Homer Erotic and the founder of her own band, Went, Sara Wendt's other-worldly lyrics and bell-like voice has been charming the Lower East Side of Manhattan audiences for several years now. As she moves out using her own name these days, her songs get softer but more intensely emotional. The songs from Sara's first record, Parachute, have been described as "music for your dreams" (Folkways) and "like diving into a tropical sea-warm, bright and filled with strange, cool twists" (Maggie Dubris).

The songs from Sara's first record, Parachute, have been described as "music for your dreams" (Folkways) and "like diving into a tropical sea-warm, bright and filled with strange, cool twists" (Maggie Dubris).

Now with the release of her long-awaited second, Weightless With Love, Sara gives us this title track and it makes us hop and sing along a la Peppermint Patty with it's 70s style la-las and then she takes us to the life of a sad New Mexico drifter who doesn't like the radio in "Pretty Dark Knight" while she's off in those other worlds in "I'll Be Waiting" posing as a spiritual guide leading us along sunnier, soothing paths.

Sara attributes much of the gorgeous textures and arrangements on Here's Us to her guitarist and fellow writer, Ann Klein and also to Tim Hatfield, the record's co-producer and engineer (Cowboy Technical Services). "Ann and Tim have completely read my mind on this one. I asked for Emmy Lou Harris' Wrecking Ball with a sitar and they delivered it with a bit or a lot of me in there."

Listen to Weightless With Love. This record is beautifully personal. I felt Sara was singing just to me, leading me to a better place.

She's been told she sounds like Natalie Merchant, Chrissie Hynds, Belly, Lisa Loeb, The Cranberries, Sinead O'Connor and no one. She gives all credit to Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, Radiohead, the Beatles, and her mom's fave, David Bowie's Ziggie Stardust.