Album Review: Wintersongs from Laila Biali
Album: Wintersongs Artist: Laila Biali Label: Self-Released Websites: www.lailabiali.com www.facebook.com/LAILABIALIMUSIC www.instagram.com/lailabiali www.x.com/lailabiali www.tiktok.com/@lailabiali www.youtube.com/lailabiali https://lailabiali.bigcartel.com/product/wintersongs Wintersongs is vocalist and pianist Laila Biali’s 10th recording as a bandleader. Her first release in almost 2 years. It is perceived as a proverbial love letter to winter. The offering projects sonic images for the listener. A sonic gala where the listener is caught in the midst of a breeze blowing across snow-capped mountains, floats above a field of whistling trees as they are jostled by nature's wind, cradled by the warmth of the sun's rays draping across rolling pastures. Such images are pictured in the symphonic passages of Biali's music. Starting the listening experience with "Drifting Down Ice," the soft and plush soundscape moves sleekly, knitting h...