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Irene & Her Latin Jazz Band



Last Updated: 12/1/2009

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City: Los Angeles
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/14/2006
Saturday, June 06, 2009 

Category: Music
It's been a long time coming but here it is - the sequel to Irene Nachreiner's debut album, Summer Samba, A Song Of You. The new album continues in the same vein as before - a collection of fourteen convivial tracks, wonderfully sung and a sure-fired winning cure against the depression blues.

Thanks to the super smooth backing by her band, Irene's entrancing voice makes every track a holiday pill with a dollop of sunshine in the core. Irene also shows herself to be a decent songwriter as well, co-writing three of the songs herself [listen to Dance With Me for a prime example], while Jobim [Triste], Gershwin [S'Wonderful], Sting [Fragililidad], the Bergmans [Like A Lover], Cole Porter [It's Too Darn Hot] and Joao Gilberto [Bim Bom] supply some of the others.

The album's signature [title] track was written by Ken Morrison and Mark Reiman - they are a writing team who contacted Irene through My Space and she is the first artist to record this song. These sambas and rumbas are the ideal soundtrack for this summers' round of barbecues and garden parties, guaranteed to lift the gloomy mood set by the current recession.

The album has been excellently recorded, it has a glowing warm-hearted sound that will shine on any type of sound system - of course, you could be greedy and hog it all for yourself on your iPod, but that would be just plain rude. A Song Of You is an album to be savoured by all and enjoyed all year around.

Summer Samba was one of my albums of the year in 2008 and I think A Song Of You will replace it at the top of my list for 2009. You would really need to be a mean hearted curmudgeon to not like this album.

Extremely highly recommended.

2:07 AM
 
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