Blues Opera to Shh and Disturb
This is operatic blues, second track I Like the Sunrise an aria of soaring vocal and background
atmospheric orchestration. On third Open
Door the sonorous singing of blues gospel is underscored by an electronic
pulse and rise of sound that helps to create the most creative noise of a
record stuck in its groove, but one that is mesmerising.
As a complete surprise, third Flow My Tears [for Smokey Robinson] is Moran again in operatic
splendour but accompanied by classical acoustic guitar, though electric synth
over piano and other gently pushes in to end, just after the Robinson line 'cruising together'. Fifth traditional Deep River introduces the first balladic
jazz backdrop to that blues-opera delivery, and Moran soars intergalactic on
this one – stunning.
Later The Little
Horses lullaby is disturbed by brash guitar chords, grunge-like, and these ‘straight’
to paradoxical arrangements across the album are genuinely captivating. The
shssssing and amplified breathing of Shh
calms for a moment, and instrumental Heavy
Blues Muse that follows sooths more but unnervingly.
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