DALIA FAITELSON - Powered By Life
Losen: LOS199-2
Dalia Faitelson: vocal, guitar; Thomas Clausen: piano, keys; Soma Allpass: cello; Anders Provis: drums: Fredrick Damsgaard: bass; Ayi Solomon: percussion.
Recorded 17th January 2017 by Jorgen Bo Behrensdorff at Park Film Studio, Copenhagen; and March 2017 by John Fomsgard at The Village, Copenhagen.
Faitelson already has a distinguished career, with her last CD nominated for Best Vocal Jazz Album in Denmark (as well as Danish Jazz’s composer of the year in 2005), and nominated for Danish World Music Awards for her band Pilpel. She has also recorded or toured with people like Randy Brecker and Manolo Badrena. Her vocal style has an attractive huskiness to it and she often sings just behind the beat which creates some interesting dynamics in the music. The CD opens with Damsgaard playing a slow, looping bass line and Faitelson's rich singing carrying the tune, before she launches into some elegant guitar solo work. The addition Allpass’s cello as a way of shadowing and emphasing Faitelson’s voice is particularly effective.
Elsewhere on the CD, veteran pianist Clausen turns in some excellent keyboard work, often in an understated and slightly elusive shading of the tunes but pulling out some solid crescendoing solos, like he does towards the end of track 2 ‘Out of the Black’. Some of the arrangements are haunted by Faitelson’s Israeli heritage or her work with Plipel, in that there are often unusual shifts in rhythm or sequences of chords that give a complexity to the tunes. I enjoyed her singing but wished that we got even more of her delightful guitar work.
Reviewed by Chris Baber
Losen: LOS199-2
Dalia Faitelson: vocal, guitar; Thomas Clausen: piano, keys; Soma Allpass: cello; Anders Provis: drums: Fredrick Damsgaard: bass; Ayi Solomon: percussion.
Recorded 17th January 2017 by Jorgen Bo Behrensdorff at Park Film Studio, Copenhagen; and March 2017 by John Fomsgard at The Village, Copenhagen.
Faitelson already has a distinguished career, with her last CD nominated for Best Vocal Jazz Album in Denmark (as well as Danish Jazz’s composer of the year in 2005), and nominated for Danish World Music Awards for her band Pilpel. She has also recorded or toured with people like Randy Brecker and Manolo Badrena. Her vocal style has an attractive huskiness to it and she often sings just behind the beat which creates some interesting dynamics in the music. The CD opens with Damsgaard playing a slow, looping bass line and Faitelson's rich singing carrying the tune, before she launches into some elegant guitar solo work. The addition Allpass’s cello as a way of shadowing and emphasing Faitelson’s voice is particularly effective.
Elsewhere on the CD, veteran pianist Clausen turns in some excellent keyboard work, often in an understated and slightly elusive shading of the tunes but pulling out some solid crescendoing solos, like he does towards the end of track 2 ‘Out of the Black’. Some of the arrangements are haunted by Faitelson’s Israeli heritage or her work with Plipel, in that there are often unusual shifts in rhythm or sequences of chords that give a complexity to the tunes. I enjoyed her singing but wished that we got even more of her delightful guitar work.
Reviewed by Chris Baber
