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Riddles
Jamie Solow
Riddles
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk
 
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Some riddles are meant to be solved; others, to be savored, with new wonders and insights to be discovered each time around. Riddles marks the recording debut of Jamie Solow, a Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter whose wor...  more »

     
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All Artists: Jamie Solow
Title: Riddles
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Label: Angelears
Original Release Date: 8/22/2000
Release Date: 8/22/2000
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 691682000121

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Some riddles are meant to be solved; others, to be savored, with new wonders and insights to be discovered each time around. Riddles marks the recording debut of Jamie Solow, a Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter whose work combines the organic feel of traditional folk with the more contemporary textures of artists such as Sarah McLachlan and Tracy Chapman. But Jamie?s is a distinctive new presence on the musical scene. Her voice is warmly expressive ? sometimes ethereal and almost childlike, sometimes ballasted with the weight of emotion ? and her songs tell stories based on real-life loves, losses, and other experiences. On the deceptively simple title track, she sings, ?When a hand I?ve held is sliding away, I think love will go on,? but then, ?I turn around and it?s gone.? From the lilting folk-jazz of ?Passionflower? and its ride through the countryside to the more urban longing of ?Freeway,? the songs on Riddles take listeners on a journey of sound and vision. The achingly beautiful ?Joe?s Song? was written as a tribute to a friend who died of AIDS, while in the reggae-inflected ?Don?t Go Dirty,? she playfully but insistently asks why people keep their hearts walled in. Ultimately, in ?The Softest Hour,? the CD?s striking final track, love and passion are carried to their inevitable conclusion: sonic nirvana.
 

CD Reviews

Weaving a musical web of riddles and paradoxes
Elizabeth Krainer | La Honda, CA USA | 12/08/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Jamie Solow is one of those rare gifts: a wide-ranging musical talent and a soul wise in the heart and in experience. Listening to her creations allows me to journey into some of the lightest and darkest moments of life's journey, to laugh, cry and dance with the deep beauty of it all. Her melodies and rhythms revisit me as I move through my days and nights, and I feel touched by a wise and gentle presence listening to her voice. If you enjoy the challenge of great songwriting and performing, as with Joni Mitchell, you will feel lucky indeed to have this new CD by Jamie Solow to listen to again and again. It's the perfect way to bring light into your own Winter Solstice and holidays!"