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Thursday, 08 December 2005 |
Expat Sydney double-bass player Liz Frencham, now settled in Melbourne,
studied jazz bass at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and went on to
hone her considerable talents with festival favourites Jigzag, and
later with songwriter/singer Fred Smith. JERICHO is her first solo
project, an album of personal, intimate songs recorded with the help of
The Dream Seat, a large and varied collective of like musical minds and
collaborators, or as Liz puts it... "the dream rhythm section, the most
comfortable groove... a cohesion of different creative souls."
This is very much a bass player's album, eclectic and varied, ranging
loosely between jazz and folk styles - folk-jazz? - and obviously
coming to us from a warm and open heart. There are some strong songs
here - particularly Room at the Table, The Stronger the Tree, and
Suitcase, a loving, hope-full song about moving to a new life in a new
town to be with a new lover, which brings to mind the great English
folk-singer Sandy Denny.
But the real kicker here is the title track Jericho, a beautiful and
flawless lesson in how to write the perfect three-minute song!
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