Canyon Songs Lisa Bassenge

• 1 Riders on the Storm 05:07
• 2 Angeles 04:25
• 3 Aht Uh Mi Hed 03:56
• 4 All Stripped Down 02:42
• 5 For What It's Worth 03:49
• 6 The Last Chance Texaco 04:37
• 7 The Same Situation 03:41
• 8 Searching for a Heart 04:25
• 9 Her Town Too 05:39
• 10 I Just Wasn't Made for These Times 04:35
• 11 Blue Skies 02:49
• Total Runtime 45:45

Info for Canyon Songs

"When melancholy sounds as seductive as it does with Lisa Bassenge, then the theme "lost love" can sustain a complete album." So wrote the Rolling Stone. The Berlin daily newspaper, Taz heard a "voice that cradles the most beautiful dreams", whereas the Musikexpress recognized her to be "at times a Diva, at times a Blues singer, at times a vamp, at times Mary Poppins." Commentators are seldom so euphorically in agreement. For some 20 years the Berliner has thrilled her audiences with her bands Micatone, Nylon, the Lisa Bassenge Trio, as well as in solo. Bassenge has 14 albums to her name and with her urbane mixture of Jazz, Blues and Chanson, she ranks as one of the top German singers.

"Canyon Songs", the new album, is also a new step for the artist. It is the first time she has ventured away from the musical context with which she has for so long been familiar. Lisa Bassenge recorded the eleven songs in Los Angeles; Grammy winner Larry Klein mixed the album. There is another reason why this is a special album: with "Canyon Songs" Lisa takes a bow towards the Los Angeles singer-songwriter scene. She interprets such Rock / Pop classics as the Doors' "Riders on the Storm", Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" or Tom Waits' "Blue Skies". Alongside the pieces from the 60's and 70's, the golden era of the Laurel Canyon artists, Lisa Bassenge has included a song from 1997 in the repertoire, Elliott Smith's "Angeles". The "Canyon Songs" sessions took place in April 2015 at the East West Studios on Sunset Boulevard. Alongside Larry Klein, a man who has arranged for and produced albums for the likes of Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Madeleine Peyroux, Tracy Chapman and Melody Gardot, stood Lisa Bassenge beside a band of crack virtuoso LA studio musicians. They included Keyboarder Pete Kuzma, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, bassist Dan Lutz and saxophonist Steve Tavaglione. On particular pieces, trumpeter Till Brönner and Norwegian singer and guitarist Thomas Dybdahl join in.

Produced by Larry Klein

Lisa Bassenge
entdeckte mit 16 Jahren ihre Liebe zum Gesang und zur Musik als verlässliche Lebenshilfe. Nach dem Abitur studierte sie Gesang an der Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin. Zu dieser Zeit lernte sie auch Paul Kleber kennen, der zum guten Freund und Mitstreiter bei fast allen musikalischen Projekten wurde. Zusammen musizierten sie beim Lisa Bassenge Trio, Micatone, dem Elektro-Chanson-Projekt Nylon und nun auch beim Nachfolger des Trios.

Lisa Bassenge tourte mit Ihren verschiedenen Bands durch Europa und Asien, war in diversen Fernsehshows zu Gast, unter anderem in der “Harald Schmidt Show” und dem ZDF Morgenmagazin. Neben ihren eigenen Projekten arbeitete Lisa Bassenge mit der WDR und NDR Bigband sowie mit Peewee Ellis, Fred Wesley, Nicola Conte, Demba Nabé (aka Boundzound), Calexico und Stuart Staples von den Tindersticks zusammen. Ihre neueste Veröffentlichung “Canyon Songs” nahm sie in Los Angeles gemeinsam mit dem Produzenten Larry Klein und den Musikern Vinnie Collaiuta (dr), Dan Lutz (b), Freddy Koella (git), Pete Kuzma (p) und den Gästen Steve Tavaglione (sax), Till Brönner (trumpet) und Thomas Dybdahl (git) auf.

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