Search - Deidre Rodman, Steve Swallow :: Twin Falls

A Duet made in Heaven

Jerry Justianto | Indonesia | 05/13/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you love George Winston's December, if you love Pat Metheny's One Quiet Night, here is the album that twice the satisfactions.



Everything is so soft, so ambience, so spontaneous, so full of improvisation, no words can describe this wonderful art.



You have to hear it to feel it.



Try track number 1, 4, 11 all the songs have the same graceful and Zen type quality."

Musical Poems Without Words.

Steven I. Ramm | Phila, PA USA | 02/04/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

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Pianist Deidre Holland is one-fourth of the "cocktail pop" group The Lascivious Biddies, whose CD I love. But the music on this album is in a whole different genre. That's not a complaint. What is shows is that Holland has the talent to write and play and sing some really fun offbeat songs with the Biddies (great name isn't it?) and also create some entrancing quiet and relaxing music on her own - or, in this case, in tandem with the very talented Electric Bass player Steve Swallow (whose recordings I also enjoy).



I've played this album while reading and as background music during a dinner with friends and it is really a wonderful mood setter. While the term "New Age" might be attached to it, that moniker has sort of worn out its welcome. This is atmospheric music.



Though the first track "Sunday Drive" runs over 5 minutes, most of the other 16 pieces average a minute in length. These are music poems without words.





Give the album a listen. I think you'll be pleased. (And see Holland's "other side" by checking out the Biddies)



Steve Ramm "Anything Phonographic"



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