Category: Singers
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Georgie: At Home
We like Georgie in the Review Corner. With that name and her appearance, she could be one of those X Factor clones (that type of voice, that mild RnB) but she’s not. She can really sing, needs no Auto-tunes and her rich, soulful voice is at home singing pop, jazz or blues. If you like […]
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Basia Bulat: Are You In Love?
This is a decent pop album that, without being great, manages to wriggle its way into your affections. The chief appeal is her voice, which manages to be throaty and powerful without being too dominant, and while sounding calming. She’s got deep-ish vocals and the sound is slightly wistful, while also being bold. Wistful is […]
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Already Forgiven, Are You In Love?, baroque, Basia Bulat, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, Electric Roses, Fables, funk, Hall Of Mirrors, Homesick, I Believe it Now, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Light Years, Love is at the End of the World, music, No Control, Pale Blue, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, The Last Time, Your Girl -
Natacha Atlas: Strange Days
Atlas is from Egypt and this album sees her meld her roots with jazz. It’s a beautifully recorded selection of tracks that drifts into easy listening — the gentlest it goes is a bit late night, with an interesting fusion of sounds and instrumentation. Atlas began her career as part of the world fusion group […]
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All the Madness, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, funk, Inherent Rhythm, It’s a Man’s World, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Lost Revolutions, Maktoub, Min Baad, Moonchild, music, Natacha Atlas, Out of Time, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, Strange Days, Sunshine Day, Whirlwind Recordings, Words of a King, WR4744. -
Georgie: Live!
Georgie is new to us; we guess she has a devoted fanbase who love her bluesy vocals. This is an acoustic set, recorded live at Trinity Church, Nottingham — she’s from Mansfield so it’s practically a home-coming gig. It’s all about the music. Georgie delivers minimal and deadpan chat between the songs. “This is a […]
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Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Colorado
Colorado is not one of Young’s great albums but it’s a grower and could go down as one of his later-career highlights. There’s a film with it; Young’s films are best avoided but someone who did watch said he comments in it to his band: “It doesn’t have to be good, just feel good.” That’s […]
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Echoes Of Swing: Winter Days at Schloss Elmau
Echoes of Swing are in top form for this festive album, the quartet of Bernd Lhotzky (piano), Colin T Dawson (trumpet), Chris Hopkins (alto saxophone) and Oliver Mewes (drums) joined for this by US jazz singer Rebecca Kilgore (“one of the best interpreters of the Great American Songbook” says Wikipedia). The premise of the album […]
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Cipriano de Rore: Missa Vivat Felix Hercules / Motets
If your idea of heaven is male vocalists singing religious Renaissance music as you ponder the meaning of life, this beautiful CD is for you. Cipriano of Rore (1516-1565) composed the Mass in honour of his patron, Ercole II d’Este, the sound meant to convey the latter’s Godliness. The sleeve notes are interesting; the tenor […]
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Francisco de Peñalosa: Lamentations
This is a beautiful collection of religious music from the Renaissance. If you like religious vocal music that errs towards the sombre — the album title gives it away— this is a must. The singing is fantastic and the acoustics of wherever it was recorded only add to the experience. Peñalosa’s music is redolent of […]
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Agnus Dei, Antes que comáis a Dios, baroque, BIS, BIS2407, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Credo in unum Deum, early, Francisco de Peñalosa, funk, Gloria in excelsis Deo, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Lamentationes Jeremiae Feria V, Lamentationes Jeremiae Feria VI, Lamentations, music, pop, Quae est ista, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Sancta Maria, soul, Stabat mater dolorosa, succurre miseris, Unica est columba mea -
Various: Folk Music of China, Vol II: Folk Songs of Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang
This is part of Naxos’s newly-launched world music catalogue, and it’s more interesting than some of the modern rock/pop releases we listen to; admittedly it won’t shift so many copies. The songs featured are the folk songs of five minority ethnic groups of Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang — Mongol, Daur, Oroqen, Evenki and Hezhen. They’re […]
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baroque, Blues, brother, Building Mongolian Ovoos; Vast Grasslands; Brown Eagles; Looking at the E’erdun Mountain from Afar; A Pastoral Song; My Dear Horse; A Beautiful Lake; The Lover; When Can I See You (excerpts); The Curv, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, Folk Music of China, Folk Songs of Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, music, NXW76089-2, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, the Mother River (Chorus); In Retrospect; Beautiful Forest; Beautiful Mountains and Clear Rivers; Sitting at the Foot of the Mountain and Singing; Lullaby (Oroqen); Soulmate; A Traditional Song (Oroqe, Yi Ma Kan; My Hometown Gaijin; Hunting Song; A Sip of the Amur River -
Wilder Woods: Wilder Woods
Wilder Woods is Bear Rinehart, the lead singer of Needtobreathe (us neither) and the album is named after his two sons — Wilder, (3), and Woods, (1). Sweet. Rinehart can write a song and knows how to arrange his instruments, and this is a rich, luscious set of songs. We were expecting something indie but […]
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