With an exciting new sound and significantly diverse collection of songs, Juliette Lewis is ready to unveil her new album, 'Terra Incognita' via The End Records on September 1, 2009. Juliette has also announced a US summer tour with The Pretenders and Cat Power (dates to be announced shortly). Fans can go to Juliette’s MySpace (www.myspace.com/juliettelewis) to stream tracks from the upcoming album. Instrumental in creating the sound for this new record is the album’s producer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, leader of Mars Volta. "This album is so sonically different than anything I've done before and captures many flavors of my emotional life and voice,” declares Lewis. "It took me five years to really cut my teeth both as a performer and as a songwriter and I wanted to break all the habits I'd gotten used to and let songs develop out of a groove or simple piano notes and melody." Juliette and Omar met while both on tour at the Fugi Rock Festival in Japan in 2007 and soon bonded over their love of Fellini movies and the relationship between drama, visual images and songwriting. Together they have translated her ideas into an emotionally guttural and ultimately melodic and unpredictable, new sound. There is a deep undercurrent on the entire record of contrasting themes; romance and tragedy, dreams and disillusionment. Her vocal performances showcase a remarkably dynamic range going from haunting to soulful and roaring. Lewis wrote most of the 11 tracks with long time friend and musician Chris Watson over the past year and at home on piano using a tape recorder. She then recorded the album in between both of her and Omar’s tours at the end of 2008 at Rodriguez-Lopez's studio in Brooklyn NY and Guadalajara Mexico. The record was mixed by the legendary Rich Cosey (NIN, Muse, Foo Fighters). JULIETTE LEWIS on the web: http://www.myspace.com/juliettelewis