"Her new album, Oh Snap, is a set of 12 originals and one cover that she created on her own over four years, before adding her band. She experimented for the first time with computer-generated sounds to draw on grungy pop and intimate folk music and expand on the classical-vocal education and extensive jazz input she acquired while living in France in the 2000s."
"The opening I Am a Volcano is a diaphanous vocal that builds intensity against a drum loop, while Anything But Now themed around procrastination is a breezy jazz swinger featuring freewheeling pianist Sullivan Fortner. Take This Stone, featuring Salvant's folksy harmonising with favourite fellow singers June McDoom and Kate Davis, is a standout as is What Does Blue Mean to You, a brushes-cushioned, quietly conversational and then starkly soul-wailing epiphany inspired by Toni Morrison's Beloved."
Cecile McLorin Salvant emerged at Ronnie Scott's in 2014 as a multilingual jazz artist with exceptional vocal technique and imaginative range. Oh Snap contains 12 originals and one cover created solo over four years before adding a band. Salvant incorporated computer-generated sounds to fuse grungy pop and intimate folk with classical vocal training and deep jazz experience gained while living in France in the 2000s. Visual-art interests helped free a bolder approach. The album spans diaphanous, drum-loop-driven pieces, breezy jazz swingers with collaborators, folksy harmonies, Beloved-inspired soul-wailing and playful Auto-Tuned electro-pop moments.
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