Sabine McCalla - Women's Stage in the Dumbo Archway, Brooklyn Americana Music Festival. скачать в хорошем качестве

Sabine McCalla - Women's Stage in the Dumbo Archway, Brooklyn Americana Music Festival.

Featured in Off Beat Magazine, New Orleans: 'Sabine McCalla's stripped-down style, either singing acapella or with minimal guitar or vocal accompaniment, bears a force that evokes the most haunting of the early Lomax recordings of historic American music. McCalla compiled a selection of songs crafted over the last four years in New Orleans and found help from the independent Mashed Potato Records to make a first recording, Folk, a dark and intimate testimony to her fascination for old songs and classic gospel, all fittingly recorded on grainy-sounding tape. Things have been moving fast since then. The record reached a couple of ears, including those of Eli “Paperboy” Reed, a New York–based singer and producer who arranged for McCalla to play with the Harlem Gospel Travelers up in the Big Apple. An inspiring and fruitful step, the experience helped McCalla piece together her own first band. A five-piece outfit, Sabine McCalla & the Dew Drops premiered at Siberia in May. In this context, McCalla’s songs benefit from an entirely different treatment, veering toward a classic rhythm-and-blues sound, like if a stack of 1950s 45s had spilled over a Ouija board, injecting the light-hearted soul of those days onto the stage. A major piece of that puzzle is the sound and mind of organ and piano player Casey McAllister of Hurray for the Riff Raff, as well as vocalist Casey Jane, with whom McCalla sang backups on Langhorne Slim’s rendition of “Deck the Halls.”