"it's just me and myself tonight / I don't need anybody else to feel alright / me and the snow..."
While I have a love / hate relationship with snow after an unprecedented blizzard of last year, a year that dropped 150 inches and stranded us in our humble home for 2 weeks, I admit snow provides a pretty and pretty romantic framework for our little lives. I thought about that while listening to the lovely and inspired "Snow" by SoCal's Lizzy and the Palm, aka singer-songwriter, musician Elisabeth de la Palme Mulroy. "Snow" is a sort of free form creation blending 40's-ish jazz, psychedelic freak folk filtered through a truly bohemian spirit (or sorts). Now, shame on me but I have never heard of Lizzy and the Palm prior to this track coming across my electronic desk a few weeks ago and being the curious hermit that I am, I dived in online.
After perusing, enjoying, admiring Lizzy's live performances on You Tube, I fully understand that she is one wildly talented soul, and a weird bird too. I mean weird as an utter compliment. She is a trip and does an amazing rendition of a horn sound vocally that will find you searching for the horn player. Wild. Her vocal countenance feels all ID (whether it is or not) and full of charm and whimsy. The fluidity of her voice combined with a fair amount of vocal gymnastics is never over done in a way that doesn't serve the song. It is perfect, soulful, earthy, real.
She has a rare gift that might be genetic or not and I will slip right past the nature or nurture discussion but Lizzy was born to an American musical theater composer for a father, and a French choreographer for a mother, plus I detect a 60's hippie-esque thing with her too. I know that is presumptuous of me. I don't really care how Lizzy's gifts were, are acquired anyway, I just care and am grateful that she shares them.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.instagram.com/lizzyandthepalm/
https://www.lizzyandthepalm.com/
https://www.facebook.com/lizzyandthepalm
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv7tVB9-2XbI05HHQoe3S_g
100 year old philosopher trapped inside a zillenial
Lizzy and the Palm, Southern California, Berlin, jazz, soulpop, indie pop, alt pop, psychedelic, freak folk, trippy, freefall pop, "Snow", jazz pop,
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