Fay Victor - Life Is Funny That Way - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

When Fay Victor found herself struggling to break into New York City's jazz scene in the '90s, the singer and composer took a gamble on moving to Amsterdam to reinvent herself. By day, she'd ride her bike to the library and pick up albums and sheet music to play on her piano at home. During nights, she immersed herself in the city's vivid avant-garde music clubs and venues-a move that transformed Victor from a straight ahead jazz singer into a daring vocal improviser. Over 20 years later, Victor has revisited these Amsterdam compositions for Barn Songs, her tenth album as a bandleader. Recoding alongside cellist Marika Hughes and alto saxophonist Darius Jones, the experimental project came to fruition in a tumble-down barn Hughes owns in the northern foothills of the bucolic Catskills Mountains. The trio turned the building into an organic recording compound for three days, complete with passings birds and squirrels adding naturalistic ambience to the mix. Remarkably, the songs Victor wrote while living another life in another country reveal themselves to be prescient commentary on the modern way we live today.1. Dream State2. Last Night's Dinner3. Stealaway4. Sometimes5. Talk Talk (pt 2)6. Nico7. There They Are Album Tracks 1. Dream State 2. Last Night's Dinner 3. Stealaway 4. Sometimes 5. Talk Talk (PT 2) 6. Nico 7. There They Are

Album Tracks 1. Killerers 2. Giibs 3. Hawaii 4. For Ghost 5. Harms 6. Ruins 7. Murderers

Blackity Black Black Is Beautiful is the very first solo record by Fay Victor, whose 30-year-long music career has covered everything from House, New Music, Jazz (Blues) and Free Improvisation. Her deep history with dance music, her genreless output, and her lived experience as a Black woman in the world shaped the brand new process she used to create this prismatic album which touches on all the decades of her life like diary snapshots. It's a mesmerizing collection of composed work that could only be made by an extraordinary improviser. With Mavin Gaye's InchGot To Give It UpInch as a template, Fay started thinking about how her solo album might unfold. She sang, played keyboards, added textures and further dimensions with no other humans, without electronics. That was her process. Thoroughly creative, composed with music and words straight from her spirit.1. Black Women's Music2. Breezy Point Ain't Breezy3. Vocal Layer of Pandemic Doom (Dedicated to All the Loved Ones We've Lost)4. Scared To Be Happy5. Governorship/Senate (For Stacey Abrams)6. How Can You Do It?7. I Will Be Erased8. Signs (A Question For Sages Everywhere)9. Trust The Universe (Dedicated to Sun Ra)