"This release sparkles with wit, audacity and boisterous fun." -- Rob Weir
(Ladies and Gentlemen- -we have a few sweet reviews for Petits Bisous! ! !)
CD Shorts: Erin and Her Cello * Wednesday, August 27, 2014 * By Rob Weir
New York City-based Erin Hall proves that a bit of attitude can be a good thing. Like early Christine Lavin, Hall features urbane, quirky, and insouciant observations of life, the city, and popular culture. Lavin is a folkie, but Hall draws from girl groups, vintage French pop songs, jazz, calypso, blues, and rock and roll. Erin and Her Cello is the name of Hall’s band and she does indeed play the cello, but you’ll also hear everything from boogie-woogie piano to glockenspiel.
“2 Good 2 B True” has a Twittery name, but it is girl groups retro, complete with oooh-aaahh backup singers. “The Doctor” also has a girl group feel, but the instrumentation is ’50s style rockabilly supplemented by wailing sax. Satire tempered by charm is Hall’s metier, as she demonstrates on “Break Dancin’ Man,” a sardonic send-up of look-at-me performance. She also wields her lampoon harpoon on “Google Stock.”
Hall shuffles between styles like a Vegas dealer–as befits one whose musical inspirations include Peggy Lee, Cole Porter, and Serge Gainsborough. Each of them gets an airing. “Chaz” is soulful, cool jazz, whereas “Damn” moves to the black keys to lend a faint air of danger. If that doesn’t float your boat, there is Gainsborough-like French pop (“Bonbons Chocolat” and the call-and-whistle title track). How about some bouncy pop? Inappropriate attraction has never been so giddy as “Rebound Magnet.” Too sweet for your taste? Try the rocker “Walk of Fame.”
This release sparkles with wit, audacity, and boisterous fun. Score one for attitude.
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Petits Bisous Self-Release
Erin And Her Cello is a quirky, catchy, and classically-trained music group headed by Erin Hall. Erin is joined by others on piano, sax, keyboards, drums, harpsichord, vibraphone, melodica, glockenspiel, and clapping on her latest release translated as "little kisses." The poignant melody of "The Doctor" is something straight out of the 1950's or 60's. The vocals are pop-focused and somewhat reminiscent of the Dala Girls. The content is rather comical and playful at the same time. The music is pop-oriented, but it contains a variety of instruments that give it a worldly-tone that is very endearing. The sweet melodies and vocals are right at home with the New York-based musician's French cafe music style. The metropolitan cellist combines a heady mix of tunes that only last about thirty-six minutes long. At any rate, the music is top notch and very welcoming. Buy it today! ~ Matthew Forss
( From Inside World Music, July 30th, 2014 )
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This week, our tune "Petits Bisous" is featured in an online voting contest, located HERE at KillerArtist.com. You can vote once every 24 hours, and the contest lasts all week-- VOTE ERIN AND HER CELLO! ! ! Merci beaucoup, happy listening, and have a LOVELY week!!!!!
love,
Erin and Her Cello
(PS : NEXT SHOW IS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3rd, 8:30 PM @ Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3! FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE)