(Vocal Jazz) Rebecka Larsdotter (feat. Hadrien Feraud, Ruslan Sirota) - Feathers & Concrete - 2011, WEB, FLAC (tracks), lossless

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Started at: воскресенье, 25. 03. 2012. - 13:36.14
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Finished at: воскресенье, 25. 03. 2012. - 13:41.32 (operation time: 0:05.18)

Rebecka Larsdotter was born in Nyhyttan, Sweden. A very small but inspirational spot in the Universe. Wrote her first song at the age of 2, recorded by her older sister on a tape-recorder of the days. Has since been singing and playing piano, violin, guitar, and finally made Music her full time life in 2002 by taking on a Masters Degree in Music from Örebro and Malmö University of Music. Upon graduating in 2008, Rebecka moved to the US (Los Angeles, then New York) to pursue her passion for songwriting and performing. She has since been writing, performing, singing, and working as a voice and piano instructor. Presently living in Stockholm.
On her debut recording, Feathers & Concrete, she delivers smooth contemporary jazz with a touch of soul. In the band you find well-established musicians from Hollywood, such as guitarist Charles Altura who won a GRAMMY in 2011 together with the bassist Stanley Clarke, and european bassist virtuoso Hadrien Feraud.
It'd be interesting to know how this excellent album will ever find its most appropriate audience as record company Prophone classifies it as 'Swedish Jazz' – which might be OK for many parts of Europe but I feel English listeners would possibly be more inclined to classify it as singer/songwriter soft progrock/funk slow groove easy listening.
Although some of the instrumental sections do sound a bit Weather Reportish the songs themselves largely sound more in a Carole King/James Taylor bag to me and Rebecka's fine voice is definitely more Maria Muldaur than Cleo Laine.
This just highlights the problems surrounding labelling music into the ghettos we call genres. Prophone is already saddled with the somewhat esoteric Eurojazz epithet, so I feel UK audiences would probably never come across this superb album. I know of no outlet which is liable to highlight it to any but the most tenacious of bulldog-like musical explorers. I would never have expected such material on this label and had Naxos not sent it to me for review I would never have discovered it.
Whether or not it is really the current sound of Swedish Jazz is irrelevant; my point is that this album deserves a much wider audience than the genre will earn it. It deserves to be aimed at a more general adult pop/rock public than it will be with this release.
Maybe if this 'review' stirs a big enough body of listeners people to explore the album or even buy it, then Prophone might think again and give Feathers and Concrete a second more general launch and I shall have done my duty.