vanessa liftig - where the in and out will go

first time i heard of vanessa liftig was through embee's "not tonite" and as mentioned prior i was transfixed with that voice and eventually i started to look for more material from liftig. also did so with liftig's band mates elsa esmeralda and mimi terres but i think i have mentioned that before also, along with yukimi nagano. it has to be something with the water in gothenberg for to have produced so many great young soul and jazz singers.

liftig has done a lot of music since that time but it has been little that have wowed me but i did know of an album being released in '04 but i had problems locating it and having a listen prior to it being digitzed. all i knew of the full length "when will is silent" from 2004 was that it was rooted in jazz and folk. there was a write up with good reviews on the recordlabels website but the songs that was available on the times i've been on the search has not been to my taste.

after listening to it in full a while ago i would have to say that it is a patchy album with many ideas being presented but not everything being to my taste, well at this time. chances are that i would have reacted differently when i was on my big norah jones phase about 8-10 years ago. i would have probably swallowed the album hook, line and sinker and it would have been another album to parade in people's faces about "look how diverse my music taste is".

i used to actually do that a lot when people pointed out that i mainly listened to untz-untz-untz music and i would respond with that "i also like system of a down and this and that band, sarah mclachlan, norah jones, this and that hiphop artist and etc etc". the point to mention adult contemporary music like mclachlan and jones was to say "i too have a mature side in my music".

never the less as i went through the album at large i did have some favourites and they were songs that didn't sounds so standard singer/songwriter:y. now i don't slate the music when i say that but it's a little to clean cut at times. "a stone to take home" starts very plain but as the song progresses there's a heavy blues moment in the second half of the song. "when the in and out will go" also is like that at to an extent but the arrangement is different.

the music feel like a melancholic dream as the guitar pushes forward and the drums are very suggestive and reactive in their quaint nature. all along this cello is countering the rhythm as it flows free and makes a splash when it cuts through the motions. random reviewal bullshit writeup aside i love this song and it's structure in the same way i love jessica lauren's "swamp thing". basically somewhat trippy or dreamy and suggestive music

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