This album includes pianist Ewen Farncombe and singer Alex Bird carrying out 11 tracks they composed, Farncombe producing the music, Bird the lyrics. They explain their endeavours as jazz, although I don’t hear much of it.
With no back-up artists of any kind, the duo – polished to a point where you can almost see your face – provide what’s finest referred to as mixed drink music – accomplished, inconspicuous, enjoyable and an ideal enhance to the reasonable weather condition declared to obtain when good fellows get together and eat in an A-list hostelry.
The tunes, whilst providing no brand-new insight into the human condition, are inoffensive and harmless, making complete usage of real rhyme rather than assonance and I sense that this album will please a great deal of listeners.
Discography
This Songs Is Ours; I’ve Seen The Sun; The Soul I Left Behind; Nighttime Grooves; Symphony Of Love; Raindrop (Falling Down); If You’re Not Laughing (You’re Crying); What’s Inside; I’ll Go Where You Lead; Tiny Warbler; Songwriter (34.02)
Bird (v); Farncombe (p). Toronto, 2022.
Canterbury Music Company
