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Cormac Kenevey

The Art of Dreaming

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The follow-up to Irish singer Cormac Kenevey's debut album This is Living, The Art of Dreaming mixes a selection of standards (torchy – 'The Night We Called It a Day', 'I Fall in Love Too Easily'; romantic – 'All of You', 'The Way You Look Tonight'; or specially arranged to incorporate personal messages – 'The Nearness of You') with the odd jazz vocalese classic (Harry Edison/Jon Hendricks's 'Centerpiece' done at the Joni Mitchell tempo) and some originals (a beatbox song, 'Moloko Soup' and a joky sci-fi lyric 'In the Extraoutosphere').

Kenevey's voice is light and pleasant (in the Harry Connick/Peter Cincotti mould, but with more scatting and humour) and he has an attractively intimate approach to conveying a lyric; his band, too, is sparky and intelligent – all in all, he's an accomplished addition to a field with too few runners in it.