Opposites attract as duo Katie and Jarrett record trans-American album

Jewish Telegraph, March 2006

YOUNG People rock group members Jarrett Silberman and Katie Eastburn may live on opposite sides of America, but they have managed to release new album, All At Once (Too Pure).
The new album was made by them sending tapes and CDs backwards and forwards for each other to learn.
“It was difficult to tell how a song really sounded in the rehearsal room,” explained Jarrett.
“And this was a better way to make sure the songs only had what needed to be there.”
The band was a threesome until Jeff Rosenberg left in 2004. Jarrett and Katie decided to continue as a duo.
The 11-track album sees multi-talented Jarrett playing bass, drums and guitar.
On Slow Moving Storm they are joined by drummer Chris Cohen.
Young People formed when Katie and Rosenberg moved to Los Angeles from the San Francisco area. Jeff met Jarrett Silberman through an internet message board.
Jarrett says of his musical upbringing: “My background was mostly punk, then a little later noise/sound and the like, but around the time the band started, I was listening to a lot of jazz drummers, bassists, and pianists and this had a big effect on my drumming.”
Katie added: “I was bringing a lot of southern music, a lot of gospel, country and blues, religious music, American traditional music.
“Also musical theatre, show tunes — there’s a lot of Broadway in Young People, and that certainly resonated with Jarrett as well, he’s definitely a Hollywood baby.
“There’s a ‘soundtrack’ quality — a dramatic, theatrical quality — that we appreciate. I started writing music as a dancer, when I needed soundtracks. Dancers have short attention spans when it comes to music. No mercy.”
Young People released their debut album 5RC in 2002 followed a year later by War Prayers on Dim Mak.
The trio moved to New York before Jarrett and Jeff returned West.
Rosenberg left the band in July 2004 despite appearing on an EP earlier this year.
Lyrically, the album comes from a turbulent place, added Katie.
“My brother is a soldier, he’s back from Iraq at the moment but will probably have to return, which is the most depressing thing,” she said.
“The war was an influence upon the lyrics, and also I broke up with someone, so some of the material reflects that. Then I started seeing someone new. ”