Talking of Jana Horn, she's back already, with her second album, a rapid follow up to Optimism, something of a sensation on its belated re-release last year.
The still point of the spinning world, as she was last year The Window is the Dream is more points of beauty you never suspected existed.
Horn's voice, a thing of wonder, miraculously something akin to Astrud Gilberto meeting Mo Tucker one night, onstage at a night club in Paris or New York.
These songs are unadorned. Like an exceptionally beautiful woman who doesn't need make up. Not too much is changed from the winning recipe of Optimism. Perhaps there's more confidence. More poise.
The jazzy, calm inflections are still present and correct. You get the sense that a lot of thought has been put into what works and what does not and it's all time very well spent. The key to the formula is its minimalsim. Less is always more.
Anyway I'm happy to give this a clean bill of health. File next to Josephine Foster and Billie Martin on an utterly wonderful weekend for inegenue females voices.
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