This latest album from the Berlin- based jazz vocalist Lisa Bassenge is a paean to the landscape and atmosphere of Los Angeles and Southern California. Bathed in an impressively cavernous reverb, album opener ‘Riders On The Storm’ scores highly for its evocative power, with some telling fiddle and trumpet detail in the widescreen arrangement. Larry Klein's production throughout is impeccable, surrounding Bassenge's pure-toned vocal line with the most apposite backdrops, while ingeniously shoehorning in the most subliminal of earworms: a tiny ostinato figure that threads its way through Stephen Stills’ ‘For What It's Worth’, the supremely subtle soprano sax interjections in Joni Mitchell's ‘The Same Situation’, or the mournful offbeat chime in ‘Angeles’. The slow, country blues chug of Tom Waits’ ‘Blue Skies’ seems to give an overt nod to another Klein-produced vocalist, Madeleine Peyroux, couched once again in the most simpatico arrangement imaginable.