A knockout version of a Lerner and Loewe classic is the first newly released Jo Harrop recording in a while and marks a return to the song that the acclaimed north-east of England singer has already successfully recorded.
Hard on the heels of a fabulous Anglo-Hungarian live album, 'Harmonique' is the first sounds so far from a new Molecatcher spawned project that's new from Loose Tubes legend Iain Ballamy. The title hints at harmonics provided by the touch and the bell-like, higher-pitched notes of Rob Luft within the sound as the guitarist lightly touches a string plucking instead of fretting
Recorded in America at Van Gelder's in New Jersey - shrine of shrines, the most revered jazz recording studio in history where John Coltrane's A Love Supreme was recorded in 1964. It's been an incredible year so far for Irish jazz with a string of top recordings and now this Irish-English-US collaboration adds to that purple patch led off by a very special track indeed.
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