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REVIEW OF "LUSH MECHANIQUE"
by Richard Klecka, Conscious Choice Magazine
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This here's a blue moon record, folks. Required listening. You'll not be spared a drop of gushing for this dreamy gift.
I was recently browsing at a (goddess forbid) big-chain bookstore. Whilst inundated with textual choices, mine ears did so tune into a speaker on the ceiling. I was at once entranced and immediately at the counter looking at the cover of "Lush Mechanique".
Jami Sieber plays music on electric and acoustic cello with a passion that translates into soul-baring poetry. She seems to explore every inch of her instruments as though they were lovers, eking unimaginably beautiful (and sometimes strange) sounds out of them. "All She Can Carry" begins with a tonal heartbeat and sweet, sweet vocal harmonies that make way for a trés emotional cello solo (gush, gush, gush). "Daybreak" stops me in my tracks, my eyes rolling up as my eyelids close. Most of the tunes are sweet and low in a darker way, but "Undercurrent" is a mellow trance piece, and "The Darkening Ground" explores sounds that the title describes adequately. "Dancing At The Temple Gate" wraps it up with a spirited lilt and breathy chant.
Fans of "Flesh & Bone" will appreciate the earthy quality of "Lush Mechanique". You can nab this gem directly from the source -- e-mail jlsieber@aol.com, or write to Out Front Music, PO Box 12188, Seattle, WA 98102.
REVIEW OF "LUSH MECHANIQUE"
by LadySlipper Music
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We've known about Jami's incredible artistry for a long time now, through her musical associations with Charlie Murphy, Rumors of the Big Wave, and most recently with Ferron. Her 1995 debut solo album of electric cello music is peerless; however, if there is music in the next realm (which I'm sure there is), some of it must sound like this. She describes "Lush Mechanique" as the meeting of two different worlds--of one giving birth to the other--of them living side by side. The accompanying percussion, along with occasional layers of voice, creates a tribal, insistent, intense, emotional/spiritual, evocative atmosphere, with her exquisite classically-influenced cello tones at the center. What depth and breadth; highly recommended!
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REVIEW OF "LUSH MECHANIQUE" – Amazon.com
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