Im in Love Again Amanda Homi

And at present for something unlike and succulent... Amanda Homi'due south new album is a celebration of her affinity for music and dance from around the world. She is an energetic vocalist with a crystal clear phonation, songwriter, percussionist and dancer. She is based in New York City now, but she was born in London of English language and Indian descent. The daughter of an actress and a physician, Amanda grew up singing as a child and dreaming of travel. She fell in dear with languages and began her musical travel adventures at the age of eighteen. She has since studied dance and percussion in Brazil and Senegal, sung Rembetika in Greece, Gypsy Flamenco in Spain, filmed a documentary about vocalist Toto La Momposina in Colombia, wrote and recorded Reggae in Jamaica and recently performed her music in Agadir with Moroccan musicians.

Amanda Homi'due south first album 'Drumgirls' was released in 2004. She is likewise a studio session singer, she has performed and/or recorded with well-known names similar Jackson Browne, Ray Lamontagne, Mavis Staples, They Might Be Giants, Grover Washington Jr., Pete Seeger, Toots Thielemans, Jane Siberry, amid others. She wrote the theme to the popular TV show 'Bridezillas' and she sang on many national commercials.

The new CD is produced past Graham Hawthorne, who besides worked with David Byrne, Paul Simon and Suzanne Vega. Amanda'due south musical and spiritual travels are deeply explored in this song collection. Her music effortlessly crosses genres: world, roots, classic, funk, folk, popular - every bit the characters of her songs travel from New York City to Hellenic republic, Italy, India, Republic of colombia, Egypt and Kingdom of spain, not necessarily in that order... Every bit Hans Werksman wrote: "Amanda is like a child in a processed store, sampling the musical appurtenances and finally deciding she wants information technology all!" Center candy is also included for the music lovers: this digipack looks beautiful with pictures of gorgeous Amanda.

The album features Amanda Homi on lead and background vocals. Names mentioned in comparison: Annie Lennox, Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell, Emerge Oldfield and even Lene Lovich. She likewise plays zills and harmonium, accompanied by a remarkable cast of musicians and a rich palette of instruments from all over the globe. Graham Hawthorne brings his vast knowledge of world music to the project as the producer , arranger, drummer and percussionist. Ara Dinkjian (Eleftheria Arvanataki, Sezen Aksu) is featured on oud, cumbus and cura saz, Jon Albrink (guitar and vocals) and Gary Schreiner (keyboards, accordion, harmonicas). Paul Frazier (bass, bankroll vocals) and Joey Cardello (percussion) round out the rhythm section. Guest musicians include Todd Isler (kanjira),Carlinhos Avaco Almeida (cavaquinho), Megan Gould (violin, baglamas), Robert Muller (tabla), Joy Askew (backing vocals),Guilherme Monteiro andSpiros Exaras (nylon cord guitars), JohnRagusa, Steve Kenyon and Charles Pillow (flutes and woodwinds).

A pleasant surprise: Eugene Ruffolo, a familiar face up in Western Europe later on quite a few tours, adds backing vocals and plays the part of the 'cranky old homo' in "Ladri Di Biciclette", a song he likewise co-wrote.

Allow's spin the disc...

- "Dancing Girls". After seeing images of women dancing in protestation as part of the Arab Spring, Amanda was reminded of a visit to Cairo as a young woman where she heard the wonderful music of Oum Kalthoum, Warda and Fairuz. She co-wrote this song with oud master Ara Dinkjian every bit an inspiring bulletin for women to peacefully change the world.

- "Samba Feliz". This classy pop-infused song brings a tropical Latin medley to life.

- "Shoes". Yep, an irresistible festive song about Amanda's collection of shoes! With a corking function for the cheerful accordion...

- "Lorca's Desire". This vocal, with its haunting Afro-Peruvian rhythm, captures a time in the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca's life in New York City, 1929. He walks around Manhattan wrestling with his deepest longings and fears. Written from the imagined point of view of Lorca, Amanda Homi begins and ends the track by echoing Lorca'due south thoughts with a stanza from his poem 'Ditty of Commencement Desire':

"In the green morning
I wanted to be a heart
And in the ripe evening
I wanted to be a nightingale."

- "Till I Reach Bombay". On the title track, set to a Bhangra crush, Amanda tries to heal her cleaved heart past cycling across the Hudson, through New Jersey over the Atlantic, eventually landing in Bombay (Mumbai), the birthplace of her grandfather. "I realize this was a flake convoluted geographically, but in my caput information technology all made sense", says Amanda.

- "Senseless". A poetic love carol. "I'chiliad deaf / to the clanging of the warning bells / I'm weak and defenseless / You left me senseless." Beautifully build up past the bass and the oud.

- "Cards Coins & Chaos". A fantastical tune inspired by Emir Kusturica and Tony Gatlif films and past Taref de Haidouks, Goran Bregovic and Greek Gypsy songs. It is filled with colorful characters and the inevitable chaotic hymeneals scene. Amanda says: "I am a cocky-proclaimed 'Romabee'! Being fascinated and in beloved with all things related to Romani or more than widely and less politically correctly known every bit Gypsy civilization". The department sung past the Gypsy Chicks was written using translations from one of Amanda's Romani dictionaries. "I hope this is really what it ways and that I did not accidentally offend anyone."

- "Kaisariani". Telling the nostalgic tale of Amanda's fourth dimension spent in Greece as an eighteen year former, living in the historic Athenian neighborhood Kaisariani. Making her living singing in a Bouzouki club at dark, she cruel in love with Greek music. The song is written every bit a Zeibekiko, one of the of import Rembetiko song forms introduced to Greece by refugees from Asia Minor who had settled in Kaisariani.

- "Danger Be Damned". Despite the title a light-hearted song, once again with squeeze box: "The boys are coming from Astoria / Strike up the ring / carnations and a white gardenia."

- "Ladri Di Biciclette". "Bicycle Thieves" is an energetic Pink Martini-esque story vocal about a chain of loved, lost and / or stolen bicycles, equanimous in an Italian 'pizzica' style - and of course the title was 'stolen' from the classic Vittorio De Sica pic.

- "Una Promesa". The album concludes with this stunning Spanish ballad, co-written by Alex Alexander, adorned by woodwinds, paying tribute to Gabriel García Márquez. A cautionary tale virtually: "All the tender words we never speak / are the ones that we regret / All the promises we couldn't proceed / are the hardest to forget".

Let Amanda have you by the hand for an unforgettable gamble and trip the light fantastic toe with her effectually the world!

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Written & compiled past Johanna J. Bodde - September 7th, 2014.

Thanks to publicistBernadette Quigley for the fantabulous info canvass!

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