Search - Fay Victor :: Lazy Old Sun - Live/Life in the Lowlands

Lazy Old Sun-Live/Life in the Low Lands, to be released this fall, represents a new milestone into Fay Victor's musical development after Darker than Blue's venture into freer and darker sounds. Recorded live, the CD is a blast, from the introspective opener "Lazy Old Sun" to the raucous closer "Last Night I had a Dream", artfully building a level of suspense and urgency maintained throughout the record. Introducing the novelty of a concept album in the form of a live recording, Lazy Old Sun captures Fay Victor and her European-based band in peak form during 2 concerts in The Netherlands. Through a stunning variety of moods and material, based on the concept of life as a transitory settler in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Fay and her equally audacious musicians display a singular, recognizable and mature style of making improvised music. While this results into an adventurous energy somewhat rare among current jazzbased vocal concepts, Fay and her band never fail to captivate the audience. Some of the songs featured are: People are Strange (The Doors), Saturday and Sunday(Jackie MacLean), Laura, Lazy Old Sun (The Kinks), along with several original pieces, ranging from the plaintive "Stealaway" through the more pop-like arrangement of "There they are", to the collective improvisational blasts of "Magere brug" and "Nieko".