Sunnyside Records: Joanna Wallfisch — Gardens In My Mind (Audio CD)

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Product Details:

• UPC: 016728145527
• Catalog Number: SSC 1455
• Product Type: Audio CD
• Brand / Label: Sunnyside Records (Sunnyside Communications)
• Artist: Joanna Wallfisch (vocals, piano, ukulele)
• With: The Sacconi Quartet & Dan Tepfer
• Release Year: 2016
• Genre: Jazz / Vocal
• Style: Vocal jazz, art song, chamber-jazz crossover

Product Features

• Format: CD (enhanced — digital booklet and video accessible via Mac or PC)
• Discs: 1
• Tracks: 14
• Recording: Recorded August 24–25, 2015, Nimbus Studios, Wyastone, Wales; mixed and mastered by David Darlington, Bass Hit Recording, NYC
• Made in USA
• Condition: New / Factory sealed

Overview

Gardens In My Mind is Joanna Wallfisch's most ambitious record — a singer-songwriter's set of original material framed by a string quartet and a jazz pianist, sitting somewhere between vocal jazz, chamber music, and art song. Wallfisch sings and plays piano and ukulele; Dan Tepfer adds piano and melodica; the Sacconi Quartet supplies the strings.

The writing leans intimate and atmospheric. Tracks like "Moons of Jupiter," "Satellite," and the title song trade in imagery and space, while a cover of Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren" sits naturally among the originals. The arrangements give the quartet real room — this isn't strings as decoration but as a full voice in the music.

Recorded in Wales and mixed in New York, released on the respected jazz label Sunnyside in 2016. The disc is enhanced, too: drop it into a computer for a digital booklet and the "Gardens In My Mind" music video.

Interesting Facts

• Joanna Wallfisch is a British-born, New York–based vocalist and composer from a distinguished musical family; her brother is cellist Benjamin Wallfisch, also a film composer.
• Pianist Dan Tepfer, who co-produced, is acclaimed for his work pairing improvisation with classical structures, including his Goldberg Variations project.
• The album includes a reading of Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren," a song widely covered across folk and art-pop.
• The striking cover and inner images feature body painting and flower design by Alyssa D'Anna, photographed by Jeremy Sailing.
• The closing track, "Lonely Road," is a brief reprise of the album's second song, "All I Want," bookending the record.

Track Listing

1. Moons of Jupiter — 4:36
2. All I Want — 4:29
3. Gardens In My Mind — 4:26
4. Satellite — 7:16
5. Distant Shore — 3:44
6. Anonymous Journeys — 4:02
7. Patience — 5:07
8. Satin Grey — 3:42
9. This Is How You Make Me Feel — 4:11
10. Song to the Siren — 4:26
11. Rational Thought — 3:47
12. Dreams of a Carousel — 1:03
13. Brighton Beach — 3:33
14. Lonely Road (All I Want Reprise) — 1:26

Publishers

℗ & © 2016 Sunnyside Communications Inc. Produced by Joanna Wallfisch; co-produced by Dan Tepfer. Made in USA.

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