(No Format)It’s hard to topple for a new artist whose fracture came courtesy of that bastion of cutting-edge music programming,Later With Jools Holland. But Ala.
Ni is a beguiling singer capable of torching sluggish assumptions. Somewhere between Judy Garland and Julee Cruise, she is a west London-born, and Paris-based former session singer of Grenadian extraction who harks back to a time when songbirds glided on gentle orchestral breezes. This assured debut is largely about a doomed admire affair,a curio you didn’t know you needed until it arrives. Innocence pervades songs such as Cherry Blossom, but Roses & Wine finds Ala.
Ni aghast when her lover returns to his wife, or while Darkness at Noon is a postmortem that’s more thorn than rose.
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Source: theguardian.com