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Title - From A Window To A Screen
Artist - Kirsten Lambert

For those unaware, From a Window to a Screen is the debut album by North Carolina chanteuse Kirsten Lambert.

Produced and written by noted producer Chris Stamey, the predominantly acoustic jazz collection features performances by Bill Frisell (guitar) and a North Carolina jazz dream team of Will Campbell (saxes), John Brown (bass), Jim Crew (piano), and Dan Davis (drums), along with special appearances by Nels Cline (treated and untreated guitars), Django Haskins (harmonies), Brent Lambert (nylon-string guitar), Allyn Love (steel), Matt Douglas (bass clarinet), and James Wallace (additional drums).

Recorded in performance at the renowned Fidelitorium Studio and then completed at Modern Recording, the album is finally due out October 28th, 2022.

I like finding the moment a song goes from hopeful to heartache, Kirsten says of her upcoming release, which features new songs Stamey wrote especially for this outing. These, including What Is this Music that I Hear? and the bossa nova-styled waltz The Woman Who Walks the Sea, join others reimagined from his earlier catalog, including the smoky, noir title cut (which itself might well have been a reimagining of the old Icicle Works album From A Whisper To A Scream).

Although optimism is at hand in uptempo numbers such as There’s Not a Cloud in the Sky, heartache is also not in short supply in reflective ballads such as 27 Years in a Single Day and I Didn’t Mean to Fall in Love with You.

And Lambert’s effortless and highly personal interpretations display an intimate knowledge of the material; with her resonant and expressive alto, she has clearly made it her own.

1. What Is This Music That I Hear?
2. On An Evening Such As This
3. The Woman Who Walks The Sea
4. Occasional Shivers
5. Insomnia
6. Song For Johnny Cash
7. I Didn’t Mean To Fall In Love With You
8. There’s Not A Cloud In The Sky
9. From A Window To A Screen
10. There’s A Love
11. 27 Years In A Single Day
12. And I Love Him

This ornately sculptured, Karen Carpenter-esque imbibed album of pure, and unadulterated light jazz gossamer from the North Carolina chanteuse Kirsten Lambert opens on the simply breathtaking What Is This Music That I Hear? and the lushly opulent On An Evening Such As This, and those are in turn followed by the sumptuous The Woman Who Walks The Sea, the breathy, late night smoky club vibe of Occasional Shivers, the veritably shimmering Insomnia (featuring Bill Frisell and Nels Cline), and then we get the gently luxuriant Song For Johnny Cash.

Along next is one of my own personal favorites from this debut set, the delicately dignified I Didn’t Mean To Fall In Love With You and the upbeat folly of the free flowing There’s Not A Cloud In The Sky, which are in turn followed by the lavishly cinematic, softly aureate musings within the titular From A Window To A Screen (featuring Bill Frisell), the softly endearing There’s A Love, the album rounding out all too soon on the quietly enigmatic, tender dance floor swirl of 27 Years In A Single Day, closing on the graceful balladry of And I Love Him.

Bill Frisell layers and weaves his distinctive hypnotic textures on Insomnia and steps up for a classic solo on the dB’s classic From a Window to a Screen.

The album’s melodic and lyrical twists harken back to the era of the Great American Songbook. In fact, its harmonic language would not be out of place in such a setting, and Stamey’s Nelson Riddle- and Gordon Jenkins-inspired string arrangements underline this kinship.

And Harry Connick, Jr.-alumni Will Campbell’s sax solos make every chordal connection catch fire, his improvisations, recorded live with the rest, seem both startling and inevitable.

Official Kirsten Lambert Trailer: From a Window to a Screen

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