No worries, folks \u2014 this singer, whose voice we love for quite some years now, has not developed a stutter, now that she also writes her own lyrics. Wo-wo-wonder, the title of Lisa Wahlandt\u00b4s new CD, is not indicating a speech impairment. It\u00b4s just that Ms. Wahlandt, well, yes, that she wonders. She wonders at life, to put it broadly, wonders at love \u2014 lo-lo-love \u2014 in the sweetly, joyously skipping title song, wonders at the oh so common, yet for ever wondrous story of boy meets girl meets boy meets girl…, including, quite naturally, the follow-up: girl becomes a mother. The loving, working mother of a Little Boy Child, as in fact Ms. Wahlandt is by now. Could there be a nicer way for us, the singer\u00b4s audience, to share that experience than in this finely crafted, uplifting swing tune with driving brush work on the drums, solid walking bass and a piano solo respectfully quoting both The Count and The Duke?<\/p>\n
Round about half the 14 songs on Lisa Wahlandt\u00b4s latest installment are originals. She has tried her hand on songwriting before, yet never to such an extent. \u201eI\u00b4d like to have that poet\u00b4s gene,\u201c she says, \u201elike Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Cohen…\u201c That\u00b4s reaching high, of course. But then again, stretch and strain is what the true artist must do, per aspera ad astra, as the classic saying goes. And apropos stretching: To come up, as Ms. Wahlandt does self-mockingly in \u201eShe devil of the suburbs\u201c, with lyrics that rhyme \u201etight stretch pants\u201c with \u201eDVD\u00b4s of Bruno Ganz\u201c \u2014 that\u00b4s a feat well worthy of the best in the songwriter\u00b4s trade. She has the gift of spotting the telling details in our lives, and of connecting the dots in such a way that we feel both caught and amused, but never let down. It\u00b4s a grown woman\u00b4s wisdom that speaks to us, of love, friendship, motherhood, of life\u00b4s losses and life\u00b4s joys. And it\u00b4s a genuine poet\u00b4s talent that enables Ms. Wahlandt to leave room in her lyrics, at the right moment, for us to fill out the blanks with our own, personal imagination \u2014 as in the beautiful and mysterious ballad \u201eBirdy friends are calling\u201c.<\/p>\n
Once again in Lisa Wahlandt\u00b4s oeuvre, the new CD is an entertaining and surpriseful composite of contemporary musical styles, from Jazz to Worldmusic to songwriter pop. Seemingly disparate musical elements find together and form an artistic entity, including free-floating, syllable-bending vocal improvisations; a heartwarming rendition of Dylan\u00b4s soulful \u201eSister\u201c (how glad we are to be reminded of this nugget and its time!); and including even a Beatles song: \u201eNorwegian wood\u201c, in a version so daring in it\u00b4s tonal jumpyness and rhythmic indetermination that the singer\u00b4s peer Joni Mitchell actually might tip her hat. Ms. Wahlandt\u00b4s piano trio does a great job throughout. There is a feeling of friendship shining through the music, of friendship human as well as artistic. \u201eSometimes\u201c, says the singer, \u201ebands are like lovers…\u201c Very nice, Ms. Wahlandt, we appreciate that. Keep it up! Keep it going, your singing, your songwriting, your music, your generous sharing of insights and fallouts. For now, you let us off the hook, in the CD\u00b4s last song \u201eOcean\u201c, with a cheerful Samba \u2014 Sa-sa-samba \u2014 beat. May we, please, take this as a promise for more. No worries, folks \u2014 this singer, whose voice we love for quite some years now, has not developed a stutter, now that she also writes her own lyrics. Wo-wo-wonder, the title of Lisa Wahlandt\u00b4s new CD, is not indicating a speech impairment. It\u00b4s just that Ms. Wahlandt, well, yes, that she wonders. She wonders at life, to put it broadly, wonders at love \u2014 lo-lo-love \u2014 in the sweetly, joyously skipping title song, wonders at the oh so common, yet for ever wondrous story of boy meets girl meets boy meets girl…, including, quite naturally, the follow-up: girl becomes a mother. The loving, working mother of a Little Boy Child, as in fact Ms. Wahlandt is by now. Could there be a nicer way for us, the singer\u00b4s audience, to share that experience than in this finely crafted, uplifting swing tune with driving brush work on the drums, solid walking bass and a piano solo respectfully quoting both The Count and The Duke?<\/p>\n
Round about half the 14 songs on Lisa Wahlandt\u00b4s latest installment are originals. She has tried her hand on songwriting before, yet never to such an extent. \u201eI\u00b4d like to have that poet\u00b4s gene,\u201c she says, \u201elike Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Cohen…\u201c That\u00b4s reaching high, of course. But then again, stretch and strain is what the true artist must do, per aspera ad astra, as the classic saying goes. And apropos stretching: To come up, as Ms. Wahlandt does self-mockingly in \u201eShe devil of the suburbs\u201c, with lyrics that rhyme \u201etight stretch pants\u201c with \u201eDVD\u00b4s of Bruno Ganz\u201c \u2014 that\u00b4s a feat well worthy of the best in the songwriter\u00b4s trade. She has the gift of spotting the telling details in our lives, and of connecting the dots in such a way that we feel both caught and amused, but never let down. It\u00b4s a grown woman\u00b4s wisdom that speaks to us, of love, friendship, motherhood, of life\u00b4s losses and life\u00b4s joys. And it\u00b4s a genuine poet\u00b4s talent that enables Ms. Wahlandt to leave room in her lyrics, at the right moment, for us to fill out the blanks with our own, personal imagination \u2014 as in the beautiful and mysterious ballad \u201eBirdy friends are calling\u201c.<\/p>\n
Once again in Lisa Wahlandt\u00b4s oeuvre, the new CD is an entertaining and surpriseful composite of contemporary musical styles, from Jazz to Worldmusic to songwriter pop. Seemingly disparate musical elements find together and form an artistic entity, including free-floating, syllable-bending vocal improvisations; a heartwarming rendition of Dylan\u00b4s soulful \u201eSister\u201c (how glad we are to be reminded of this nugget and its time!); and including even a Beatles song: \u201eNorwegian wood\u201c, in a version so daring in it\u00b4s tonal jumpyness and rhythmic indetermination that the singer\u00b4s peer Joni Mitchell actually might tip her hat. Ms. Wahlandt\u00b4s piano trio does a great job throughout. There is a feeling of friendship shining through the music, of friendship human as well as artistic. \u201eSometimes\u201c, says the singer, \u201ebands are like lovers…\u201c Very nice, Ms. Wahlandt, we appreciate that. Keep it up! Keep it going, your singing, your songwriting, your music, your generous sharing of insights and fallouts. For now, you let us off the hook, in the CD\u00b4s last song \u201eOcean\u201c, with a cheerful Samba \u2014 Sa-sa-samba \u2014 beat. May we, please, take this as a promise for more. No worries, folks \u2014 this singer, whose voice we love for quite some years now, has not developed a stutter, now that she also writes her own lyrics. Wo-wo-wonder, the title of Lisa Wahlandt\u00b4s new CD, is not indicating a speech impairment. It\u00b4s just that Ms. Wahlandt, well, yes, that she wonders. She wonders at life, to put it broadly, wonders at love \u2014 lo-lo-love \u2014 in the sweetly, joyously skipping title song, wonders at the oh so common, yet for ever wondrous story of boy meets girl meets boy meets girl…, including, quite naturally, the follow-up: girl becomes a mother. The loving, working mother of a Little Boy Child, as in fact Ms. Wahlandt is by now. Could there be a nicer way for us, the singer\u00b4s audience, to share that experience than in this finely crafted, uplifting swing tune with driving brush work on the drums, solid walking bass and a piano solo respectfully quoting both The Count and The Duke?<\/p>\n
Round about half the 14 songs on Lisa Wahlandt\u00b4s latest installment are originals. She has tried her hand on songwriting before, yet never to such an extent. \u201eI\u00b4d like to have that poet\u00b4s gene,\u201c she says, \u201elike Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Cohen…\u201c That\u00b4s reaching high, of course. But then again, stretch and strain is what the true artist must do, per aspera ad astra, as the classic saying goes. And apropos stretching: To come up, as Ms. Wahlandt does self-mockingly in \u201eShe devil of the suburbs\u201c, with lyrics that rhyme \u201etight stretch pants\u201c with \u201eDVD\u00b4s of Bruno Ganz\u201c \u2014 that\u00b4s a feat well worthy of the best in the songwriter\u00b4s trade. She has the gift of spotting the telling details in our lives, and of connecting the dots in such a way that we feel both caught and amused, but never let down. It\u00b4s a grown woman\u00b4s wisdom that speaks to us, of love, friendship, motherhood, of life\u00b4s losses and life\u00b4s joys. And it\u00b4s a genuine poet\u00b4s talent that enables Ms. Wahlandt to leave room in her lyrics, at the right moment, for us to fill out the blanks with our own, personal imagination \u2014 as in the beautiful and mysterious ballad \u201eBirdy friends are calling\u201c.<\/p>\n
Once again in Lisa Wahlandt\u00b4s oeuvre, the new CD is an entertaining and surpriseful composite of contemporary musical styles, from Jazz to Worldmusic to songwriter pop. Seemingly disparate musical elements find together and form an artistic entity, including free-floating, syllable-bending vocal improvisations; a heartwarming rendition of Dylan\u00b4s soulful \u201eSister\u201c (how glad we are to be reminded of this nugget and its time!); and including even a Beatles song: \u201eNorwegian wood\u201c, in a version so daring in it\u00b4s tonal jumpyness and rhythmic indetermination that the singer\u00b4s peer Joni Mitchell actually might tip her hat. Ms. Wahlandt\u00b4s piano trio does a great job throughout. There is a feeling of friendship shining through the music, of friendship human as well as artistic. \u201eSometimes\u201c, says the singer, \u201ebands are like lovers…\u201c Very nice, Ms. Wahlandt, we appreciate that. Keep it up! Keep it going, your singing, your songwriting, your music, your generous sharing of insights and fallouts. For now, you let us off the hook, in the CD\u00b4s last song \u201eOcean\u201c, with a cheerful Samba \u2014 Sa-sa-samba \u2014 beat. May we, please, take this as a promise for more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nand Trio 11:
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\nSven Faller – bass
\nGerwin Eisenhauer – drums
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