Marta Capponi: Life Within

Rating: ★★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Ross Stanley (org, p)
Dario Di Lecce (b)
Emiliano Caroselli (d)
Jo Caleb (g)
Marta Capponi (v)

Label:

Self-release

September/2021

Media Format:

CD, DL

RecordDate:

Rec. May 2019

What makes this album from the Rome-born, London-based vocalist and composer Marta Capponi really take flight is the remarkable rapport she has with her musicians. Capponi's rich, fulsome timbre is rightly centre stage, but there's also plenty of space for Caleb and Stanley to stretch out, while Capponi's husband, drummer Emiliano Caroselli, plus bassist Dario Di Lecce provide the always buoyant pulse. The album is superbly recorded, too – there's a palpable sense of excitement and spontaneity that you don't usually associate with a studio recording. And hats off to Caleb for excellent work in the mixing department. There's ear-catching detail in every song, from the way in which Stanley's Hammond organ creeps in subliminally during Capponi's introduction to ‘East of the Sun and West of the Moon’ and the incredible dynamic control as band and singer crescendo together to the climactic point of a stunning take on ‘I'll Be Seeing You, to the joyously swinging pocket of ‘September in the Rain’ and the extended outro of ‘Nature Boy’ in which the texture is stripped down to just voice and drums. If you want to hear an album of standards compellingly sung, backed by a quartet who give their all, then look no further.

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