Check out this new album from danish/british singer Claire Ross-Brown – www.musicclaire.com
This is what the press – or some it says:
“Claire has taken us by surprise with painfully honest lyrics and cool, contemporary music, making it an album that is already tipped “ahead of its time”.
Denise Burt
One saying one thing, one saying another, we walked up and down the stairs
So scared, frightened, clinging to each other thinking
whose side should we choose
The tall man we didn’t really know who called himself our daddy
Or the mother, the only one we knew but clearly just as wacky
from the song Two Sisters
Many of the lyrics on the album, all written by Claire herself, are tough and personal. They touch on taboos such as violence, cutting and addiction. But there are also songs with lighter subject matter like South Beach – about the good life in Miami – and The Office, a song about a woman out to seduce.The music, like the text, is innovative and artistic. It is difficult to determine the style, but it hits the nerve of our time. Both life-affirming and uncompromising, it stirs the emotions and creates a strong contrast with Claire’s naked and innocent vocals. A fascinating combination that you could describe as “Lyric-downbeat – electronica” with a hint of “cinematic lounge”.
Claire was born and raised in London in a dysfunctional family where violence was normal and relations were clouded by lies and fear.
Complexity has been a journey of memory and soul-searching for Claire who today lives with her Danish husband and their shared children in Copenhagen. Despite her turbulent home-life, Claire thrived at the Corona Academy of Performing Arts in London, where she studied singing, dancing and acting. Her talent was allowed to unfold in a environment that fostered other well-known artists such as The Spice Girls, Patsy Kensit and Leona Lewis.
Producers Berry Sode and Ganga (Christian Rønn), have worked with Claire Ross-Brown’s lyrics and melodies to create a polished and intense musical universe.
Complexity is an appropriate title for an album that combines the exploration of the artist’s emotional inner-life with an exciting musical universe to create a collection of songs that are easy to listen to and yet thought-provoking.Berry Sode and Ganga have many years experience producing, composing and re-mixing international and Danish artists such as Atomic Kitten, Mel Gaynor (Simple Minds), Maria Montell, Peter Peter, Hanne Boel, Buda, DJ Ravin and Kenneth Bayer.
Complexity is released on the 29th september 2008
<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>
