Sami Stevens – Morning (2023) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Sami Stevens – Morning (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:31 minutes | 474 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Soul
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Writing a song or painting a portrait can inspire us to see mundane daily life with new eyes. In seeing others with the mercy of a poetic lens, we may get outside of ourselves, and be opened up to new pathways of understanding of and empathy for one another. In this light, good and bad stand side by side, living within everything and everyone, rendering us all complex, beautiful, and endlessly fascinating.These are the themes explored in singer/songwriter Sami Stevens’s anticipated debut solo album, Morning. On the album, Stevens treats the vastness of the human condition with painterly impressions and an empathetic disposition. Inspired by the musical world of the 60s and 70s, Stevens’s writing draws upon folk, soul, jazz, and singer/songwriter traditions with refined spaciousness and a measured pace. In jazz, Stevens emulates vocalists like Sarah Vaughan; leaving the listener hanging on her every word, supported by a lush, well-delivered arrangement. Stevens also draws inspiration from artists like Donny Hathaway, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Minnie Riperton, taking encouragement from the writing and arranging sensibilities of the era, and displaying a maturity far beyond her years.

The daughter of a painter, Stevens creates loving, unfiltered images with her work, depicting portraits of complex individuals and scenes in our very imperfect lives. In “Margaret,” “Tonight,” and “Nothing’s Wrong,” she captures the unflinching beauty found in even the darkest moments of three women’s lives, a beauty found in their strength and in their vulnerability, reflected by her masterful yet raw vocal delivery. This contrasts with light-hearted love songs like the title track, “Morning,” which speaks of the sweet rhythm of love from morning to night, balanced playfully by a tongue-in-cheek reminder to “count our blessing,” notably in the singular form. Further into the album, the languid “Right In The Middle” captures a yearning; the bittersweet ennui of missing a partner, as Stevens’s usual reserved control opens up into soaring improvised vocals which carry the second half of the track.

Tracklist:

1-1. Sami Stevens – Margaret (03:51)
1-2. Sami Stevens – Morning (03:28)
1-3. Sami Stevens – How Will I Know (03:38)
1-4. Sami Stevens – Tonight (03:25)
1-5. Sami Stevens – Right In the Middle (04:56)
1-6. Sami Stevens – Nothing’s Wrong (03:12)
1-7. Sami Stevens – Utica (04:29)
1-8. Sami Stevens – Pages of You (02:52)
1-9. Sami Stevens – Paint It Blue (04:54)
1-10. Sami Stevens – Choir Will Sing (04:50)
1-11. Sami Stevens – Closer (03:50)

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