This eponymous debut album from Scarlet Rivera is a masterclass in virtuoso violin especially as a rock instrument, though this album reflects her classical training and jazz leanings as much as anything. The accompanying instrumentation, for example the synth/keyboard and effects on opener Leftback, presents the rockier and presumably marketable side to her playing at the time. Best known for her work with Bob Dylan in the mid-seventies, including the Desire album and memorably on the track Hurricane, Rivera on this and album Scarlet Fever of the following year, displays her stunning range. But it is on this first that you continually hear the tone and styling that stamped its impression on Hurricane.
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