We wrote about Connie Lansberg a couple of years ago, celebrating ‘Seconds and Circles’ as a “luscious, elegant jazz ballad”. That was when we first learned about the heightened talent that propels the Australian songstress; since then, Lansberg has gone on to release a multitude of like-minded records, all steeped in nostalgic jazz and soulful ethos. Connie’s elegance and nuanced vocals are all qualities that went a long way in gaining her a whopping twelve million streams worldwide.
This week, Lansberg has triumphantly returned with a brand new offering, ‘Aeroplane’. It’s a special release, if you will, with the Aussie creative teaming up with Brad Rabuchin, better known as Ray Charles’s last guitarist. The two have recorded a whole album worth of material, eight compelling acoustic tracks involving seven originals and one cover. Curiously, they only had a day to get the album done, meeting in Los Angeles at Nolan Shaheed’s studio.
The listening experience behind ‘Aeroplane’ is rather magical and cathartic, certainly intimate. Built on Rabuchin’s spacious and brooding guitar work and Lansberg’s hypnotic vocals, the record blooms into a tender yet firm effort, one that temporarily ventures beyond jazz influences and into easy-listening shores. Reiterating the magical atmosphere that surrounded the making of the record, Lansberg explains: “We walked into the studio, and the magic happened.” We believe that ‘Aeroplane’ carries striking levels of musicianship, and won’t be long till the world wakes up to it.
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