TWO MUST HAVE CD’s – believe us!
We like to share all things fabulous with our readers – here are two bands that are filling our work hours and play hours – BUY BUY BUY – you may have to buy from Amazon for now or order them from your favourite music shop.
PINK MARTINI and LHASA DE SELA.
Thanks to Generalista for introducing us to PINK MARTINI an unusual 14-piece band with …
the most diverse and eclectic inspiring sounds PINK MARTINI
Here’s a review of their latest album “Hold on little Tomato” from the BBC – click here for more:
What comes to your mind when you think of a pink martini? A belle ýpoque somewhere tropical? A kind of classy camp that is no more? Glamorous sexuality and silk gowns worn on nights of sin?
Well, drink deeply on the cocktail offered by Cuban beauty China Forbes and her 14-piece band (plus her heavenly chorus of male vocalists) and you’ll be sated. Every song on this album is deliciously different. You get the swing of Afro-Cuban rhythms, the existential sadness of Parisian cafý tunes, some Caribbean calypso and then a Hollywood golden-era string arrangement, all of it polished to near-perfection, with the sassy wit of the 1930s and none of the shrinking self-parody of the noughties.
China sings in Spanish, Italian, French, Croatian and English, and with feeling and confidence whatever the tongue. Her sidekick Timothy Nishimoto does a song in Japanese, with Forbes on faraway vocals. For the sultry piano bar song, “Veronique”, Robert Taylor sings and plays a wistful trumpet against the tinkling keys of Thomas Lauderdale, the force behind most of Pink Martini’s lyrics and scores. It’s cabaret showtime throughout, delievered by a band that loves live performance.
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And thanks to our very own Aquoibon for sharing this incredible voice with us – LHASA DE SELA. Her unique voice is haunting and reaches deep into your soul.
The recent career of Canadian singer/songwriter Lhasa de Sela brings new meaning to the expression ‘runaway success’. After sales of her first album “La Llorona” (1998) went beyond cult status to something approaching ballistic, she took fright at the prospect of international stardom. Feeling overwhelmed by the extensive tours of Europe and North America she ran away to France to join her three sisters, who were travelling with a circus. (Pic and info Courtesy of BBC – click here for the rest.)
We love them.. Hope you do too.
For more info see their sites:
PINK MARTINI
LHASA
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