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The Wendy Morris Band - Entangled Album Review

28 Nov 2012 // A review by Peter-James Dries

Finally, New Zealand has produced the perfect accompaniment for a summer drive around the Whangaparaoa pennisula in a blue Capri. Introducing the Wendy Morris Band and the new album Entangled.

Entangled has a sort of 80s - 90s soft pop aesthetic.  The crowd-pleasing music they play at Country Music Club gatherings. Though easy listening pop, Entangled also flirts with the traditions of reggae, jazz, country, rock and folk. It’s music you can slow dance and shuffle waltz thru, or if you wanted to flaunt the product of your salsa classes to.

Tracks like “No One’s Gonna See Me Cry” (the video for which you can find here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=twVuw1pVsEs) sound like the good old days of pop when music was marketed to the more mature generation, rather than tweens. Other tracks have a more mystical vibe, at times in an esoteric, new-age pagan sense and at others in an exotic, Caribbean holiday, or Arabian Nights sense.

Backed by a talented group of musicians, including Graham Brazier of Hello Sailor fame, Morris sings of emotions and observations that reach for our heart, as they are emotions and observations common to all of us, like the observation that” it should be Sunday” today, and the feeling that this person you have so much history with is “somebody else’s now”.  Fear not; emotional as it, Entangled treads lightly. 

To show your support for Kiwi music and the Wendy Morris Band you can purchase or preview Entangledfrom Amplifier (http://www.amplifier.co.nz/release/86179/entangled.html) or Bandcamp (http://thewendymorrisband.bandcamp.com/)

 

Entangled
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About The Wendy Morris Band

The Wendy Morris Band performs mainstream adult contemporary easy listening music. Wendy released her new album 'Entangled' in June 2012. Tracks can be purchased at Amplifier http://www.amplifier.co.nz/release/86179/entangled.html.




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Entangled
Year: 2012
Type: Album

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