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Paula Rae Gibson

No More Tiptoes

33 Records

`No More Tiptoes' is the debut album on 33 Jazz from Paula Rae Gibson, a successful photographer and singer, whose first book of photographs, Diary Of A Love Addict, was published in 2006.

 

Review from Jazzwise by Peter Quinn

A trenchantly individual piece of work, No More Tiptoes is the debut CD from London-born singer, poet, photographer and filmmaker Paula Rae Gibson.

Stripped down to just keyboard and voice, music-making doesn't get much more personal than this...some of the songs almost give the impression of being improvised – ‘Busy Fairies' being a prime example – while others such as ‘I'll Always Walk Away' have a more clearly defined harmonic motion.

Pianist Tom Pilling creates a variety of atmospheric soundscapes, from rippling right-hand figurations and booming bass octaves to the merest chordal fragments, against which the singer delivers her painful and questioning soliloquies in a voice that at times is so gossamer-light it threatens to evaporate into the ether. A disc that's simultaneously disconcerting and moving.