“Up From Down" is vintage Geltman, filled with raucous guitars and remarks both wise and wiseass. Some songs, like "Constellation" and "Up From Down," reflect the sting of Geltman losing people close to her, and others ("Sorry for You") find her on the dealing end of the blows.” -Sarah Rodman, Boston Globe

After three critically acclaimed albums

“Up From Down" is vintage Geltman, filled with raucous guitars and remarks both wise and wiseass. Some songs, like "Constellation" and "Up From Down," reflect the sting of Geltman losing people close to her, and others ("Sorry for You") find her on the dealing end of the blows.”  - Sarah Rodman, Boston Globe

After three critically acclaimed albums (Departure, No Power Steering and Motion Pictures) a slew of awards and accolades from Billboard, the Boston Globe, Dirty Linen, A Boston Music Award and the winner of a spot on Lilith Fair Tour, she cast off her name and and let the decidedly more punchy pop-rock songs (and one heart-wrenching ballad called “Constellation”) take center stage on her fourth release. There’s plenty of truth, grit, beauty and attitude on the EP Up From Down. Geltman’s one-off project was made shortly after moving to LA from the East Coast, released in late 2006 on Geltman’s label RBP Records, and was produced by Letters To Cleo’s Michael Eisenstein who also played bass and split guitar duties with Geltman.  They enlisted a first-rate band: drummer Fred Eltringham (The Wallflowers, Sheryl Crow), keyboardist Peter Adams (Juliana Hatfield, Josh Groban), string player Stevie Blacke (Beck, Pink, Madonna) and Michelle Lewis and Letters to Cleo’s Kay Hanley on backing vocals.  And like most of the studio players, the live band (Aaron Tap, Jamie Vavra & Eisenstein) had all at some point been part of the Boston music scene where Geltman first made her mark.  

The EP Up From Down was mostly a project band which Geltman hoped she could morph into whatever she was writing and with whomever she could wrangle in the near future. Illness got in the way of promoting this EP and the gigs had to stop, but most of the songs are currently repped by several music sync agents and libraries. "Milwaukee" has had quite a run and has played on Wisconsin Publis radio, is in the soundtrack for the video game "Life Is Strange" and was a finalist in the International Songwiting Competition in the peformance category.