Album Review: Clique from Patricia Barber
Album: Clique Artist: Patricia Barber Label: Impex Records Website: https://www.patriciabarber.com Pianist-vocalist-composer Patricia Barber emerges with her latest CD Clique , a bluesy smooth jazz endeavor groomed in smokey, cabaret-esque atmospherics. Barber creates an intimacy with her audience that projects a personalized listening experience. Produced by Barber and Jim Anderson, the release has a mix of jazz standards and a single original number written by Barber. She travels from emoting brooding feelings to soaring on heavenly wings with lyrics describing sensations of sheer elation. Like voyaging around the world, Barber journeys through a wide array of human emotions with the acumen of a seasoned traveler. The funky beats of Patrick Mulcahy's bass garb the track "The In Crowd," penned by Billy Page with jolts of electric streaks, putting a thrust in the lyrics as Barber shines light on the ego, ...