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Quays Music (London UK)
 May 28, 05 - 4:16 AM |
Excellent CD album from Carrie Lennard
KAYLA, the new CD album from London based singer-songwriter Carrie Lennard is acoustic & brilliant. Carrie performs regularly in and around London. Catch her in Nashville July 25th - August 7th 2005. |
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Music Medley CD REVIEWS
May 28th, 2005 - 4:18 AM |
Re: Excellent CD album from Carrie Lennard
 Featured Musician / Music Artist Carrie Lennard Watch for Carrie Lennard in the up and coming contemporary folk music scene. Carrie’s sweet, angelic voice, fine acoustic guitar skills and personal lyrics paints masterpieces of emotional snapshots on her current album, "Kayla". Carrie’s voice, (and what a voice!), invokes favorable comparisons to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. Her style, though, is her own and shines with a rich luster on tracks 1, "You Make Me Sing" and 10, "Kayla". Track 8, "Poisoned Words" is my personal favorite. This is a powerful, anger driven, blues tinged song that highlights an edgier aspect of Carrie’s voice not found elsewhere on this CD. The creative bass work by Joe Parker on this track is outstanding. Julz Parker added to the charm of this project by producing this professional sounding CD. |
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David Taylor Music Maker Magazine
May 28th, 2005 - 4:19 AM |
Re: Excellent CD album from Carrie Lennard
“Kayla” Carrie Lennard - London singer-songwriter (CD review by David Taylor of Music Maker Magazine) First impressions are what a good sound Carrie Lennard makes on the car stereo - she is a seasoned performer who started off in the mid seventies as part of the West Country folk scene early influences were all the great names of that era: Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Paul Simon. Along the way she has absorbed a lot of more modern artists - she has accumulated a catholic musical taste ranging from Beethoven to Norah Jones. This has made for an eclectic mix which has gone into the melting pot to produce her own singing and writing style showcased on “Kayla”. Carrie sings like someone who finds it (in her own words) “just like breathing”. She is based mainly in the London area and has a full gigging schedule and a trip to Nashville later in the year. She performs solo or with a band and has for the past few years been involved with the UK branch of the “Girls with Guitars” project. Carrie’s mid-Atlantic tones span the full emotional and tonal range from sensitive to powerful, sensuous to sensual, from “folkie” to almost Gloria Gaynor soul power on “Frontiers”. The headphones test reveals she is a wordsmith of no mean talent. Many of her lyrics are impressionistic, pictures in the cloud poems, but she can also write in a more direct style. She writes totally devoid of clichés and takes obvious delight in the sound of words. Topics covered include joy in relationships, friendship, broken dreams - inevitably reflective considering Carrie’s seventies origins. “Letter from a fish & chip shop” gives the impression of the mind wandering. “I want” is a pop song just about fancying someone (perhaps a cheeky hint of the Spice Girls - I can just imagine the choreography for this one) - “You make me sing” and “I can fly” are beautiful unpretentious love songs. Carrie is more than ably assisted by a group of backing musicians who she is used to playing alongside and who know how to empathise with and augment the songs without intruding on them. My overall impression is one of total genuiness of someone who enjoys what they are doing and of someone who should perhaps be a more well known name than they are - perhaps “Kayla” might benefit from taking a tour in the provinces! www.carrielennard.com |
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