Sarah Moule: Songs From The Floating World

Rating: ★★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Sarah Moule (v)
Simon Wallace (p, org, acc)
Paul Robinson (d)
Mick Hutton (b)

Label:

Red Ram Records

October/2014

Catalogue Number:

RAM002

RecordDate:

date not stated

As on her previous album, A Lazy Kind of Love, vocalist Sarah Moule's artistic focus remains firmly fixed on the oeuvre of (husband) Simon Wallace and the late Fran Landesman – of the album's 16 tracks, 10 come from the songwriting duo's pens. Seven of them receive their debut recording here, including the impressionistic, floating ‘Hell's Angel’ – a dream in which a visiting angel recounts a celestial jam session with ‘Jimi, John and Mama Cass, and all of them could fly’. There are superb interpretations of the classic ‘Scars’ and ‘Noir’. Other material includes the wildly romantic ‘Cri Du Coeur’, a sensual, slow-mo take on ‘I've Got You Under My Skin’, plus a suitably suggestive ‘I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl’. Taking on arrangement, production, recording and mixing duties once again, as well as contributing piano, Hammond organ and accordion, Wallace leads a terrific band. Moule really finds the soul of her instrument on this outstanding collection.

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