This the debut release from 22 year-old singer Rebecca Angel, who here collaborates with Grammy-winning Jason Miles, who has produced recordings of celebrity artists including Miles Davis, Grover Washington Jr., Luther Vandross, etc. Here he produced and arranged the six songs (two of which are then repeated as remixes), as well as providing keyboards and bringing together quite a large entourage of musicians for the recordings. Although Angel has a good voice, there are times when she does appear to be struggling, and there is the feeling that in many ways this is an over-produced album. With keyboards more in the background, and with far less going on, then this wouldn’t sound quite so busy and allow Rebecca more freedom to shine. With multi-layered vocals, the spontaneity has been taken away from this and the incredibly dated keyboard sounds makes one think of Seventies jazz played in clubs where people were concentrating on their beer and not their music. Not an album to which I will soon be returning as the soul has been sucked out of it.
Rating: 5/10
Links:
https://rebeccaangel.net/