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Lori Carson – The Finest Thing

8 track debut CD album from Lori Carson.

“This marks the first time Carson has written an album as a series of connected songs, or, as she calls them, “meditations.” One can sense the interior yet open focuses of the music on the sleeve by conceptual artist Russell Mills. Blues and earth tones hover in a faded landscape underscored by lovers kissing in repose on the front cover, with a solitary figure reclining in the sheets on the back.

These sonic, song-form meditations are imagistic, full of limpid, languid recollections from life that are etched deeply into emotional memory, but are reportable in only the most poetic of observational terms because of the limitations of words. Carson uses prominent acoustic and spare electric guitars, shimmering keyboards, a muted trumpet, and layers of voices (her own and those of Ayako Hirakata).

Some of these voices impart words, some wordlessly impart the pervasive sense of contemplative traveling through love, memory, people, places, things, events, landmarks — both spiritual and physical — and time itself as an elemental and subjective construct in space that breathes, opens, dissolves, and re-emerges as transformation.” – All Music

Tracklist:
1. Finest Thing
2. She Can’t Decide
3. Long Walk
4. Hold On To The Sun
5. Glimmer
6. Grey World
7. Coney Island Ride
8. Long Walk (End)