Artist: Vimala Rowe & John Etheridge Title: Out of The Sky Year Of Release: 2016 Label: Dyad Records Genre: Jazz, Vocal, World Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks) Total Time: 0:53:03 Total Size: 124 / 265 Mb WebSite:
Tracklist:
01. Blue Breeze 02. Malaika 03. Sometimes We Have to Part 04. Solitude 05. Syriac Aramaic Prayer 06. Drive 07. Ya Kundendu / Saraswati Sloka 08. Dark Shadows 09. Detour Ahead
Young singer Vimala Rowe took the role of Billie Holiday in Alex Webb’s music-theatre show Cafe Society Swing, but though flawless tributes to the great jazz vocalists are a speciality of hers, she is also an award-winning original composer, a sometime rap artist, and a world musician trained in Hindustani classical techniques. This beautiful album pairs her with chameleonic British guitarist John Etheridge, who has worked with Stephane Grappelli, Soft Machine and John Williams. The pair sweep across musical horizons here: from the terrifying Nina Simone-like opening and quietly impassioned intimacies of Blue Breeze; the imploring east African ballad Malaika, sung in Swahili; to an Aramaic prayer given a haunting treatment of almost motionless power; and an effortlessly resonant account of Detour Ahead.