Lisa Cerbone - The Missing Year (Self Release) [Folk]

The Baltimore based composer, singer and guitar playing Lisa Cerbone has been releasing music and touring for the last thirty years, as well as having her music featured on TV and in film. After her early fuller bodied band projects she's now settled into more intimate and stripped down solo work, and the less is more approach suits her.

Saying that she's not adverse to phoning a friend or two to join her in the studio, and here Mark Kozelec, who produced her previous album, brings his guitar round and helps out with the vocals on "The Missing Link", her latest single.

There's a reassuringly familiar, hypnotic quality to the guitar refrain that announces the track has arrived and which threads its way through the song, lighting the way for the duet. The pair then waste no time weaving their tale, apparently loosely based on grandma Cerbone, with her granddaughter's distinctive vocal tones floating over the warm, gentle tones of her companion, and there's some serious synergy between the pair. The well judged backing vocal loop is catchy and appears at just the right times to adding further dynamics to the gently undulating arrangement and phrasing of the pair as they weave voices and strings to fine effect. If some gentle, contemplative folk music is the order of the day then look no further.

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Playlist Companion

Find Cerbone in the Slow Folk Playlist.