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Artist description
Some riddles are meant to be solved; others, to be savored, with new wonders and insights to be discovered each time around. Riddles marks the recording debut of Jamie Solow, a Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter whose work combines the organic feel of tr aditional folk with the more contemporary textures of artists such as Sarah McLachlan and Tracy Chapman.
But Jamie is a distinctive new presence on the musical scene. Her voice is warmly expressive -- sometimes ethereal and almost childlike, sometimes b allasted with the weight of emotion -- and her songs tell stories based on real-life loves, losses, and other experiences. On the deceptively simple title track, she sings, "Every day, when a hand I've held is sliding away, I think love will go on," but then, "I turn around and it's gone."
From the lilting folk-jazz of "Passionflower" and its ride through the countryside to the more urban longing of "Freeway," the songs on Riddles take listeners on a journey of sound and vision. The achingly beautiful "Joe's Song" was written as a tribute to a friend who died of AIDS, while in the reggae-inflected "Don't Go Dirty," she playfully but insistently asks why people keep their hearts walled in. Ultimately, in "The Softest Hour," the CD's striking final track, love and passion are carried to their inevitable conclusion: sonic nirvana..... |
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Music Style
contemporary singer/songwriter |
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Similar Artists
Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan, Jane Siberry, The Innocence Mission, Tracy Chapman |
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Group Members
Jamie Solow, Bob Remstein, Probyn Gregory, M.B. Gordy, Joel Hamilton, Patti Weiss, Kenny Kotwitz |
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Instruments
vocals/guitar |
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Albums
Riddles |
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Press Reviews
Jamie Solow's music surfaces from the still depths of introspection. The sounds wash influences ranging from Carole King, Judy Collins, Rickie Lee Jones with words that feel equally haunting and comforting. Solow's songs are beautiful tributes to old frie nds, a morning poem to a lover, question marked footprints. Her voice often speaks of oceans that carry things away and return us home, the constant rhythm of waves.
--Bryan Baker, Gajooby |
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Location
Culver City, California - USA |
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