"desire / I can feel it in the way / that you move..."
The artfully skewed jazz dipped beauty of "Wasting Time", by French American singer-songwriter, musician Melissa Weikart, feels like the kind of dream that you walk into only to find yourself lost, happily so. Weikart's ability to fuse together her tangibly transporting piano chords and mellifluous vocal melodies is enough to have you falling for this track but the sideways layers of vocals that sees Weikart's voice feeling like a sort of alien instrument at times, pushing into comfortable dissonant places or wearing the sonic spots of mellotrons (or theremins) is something else all entirely, mesmerizing and insanely beautiful and for some reason (odd or not)I thought, flashed on some of Klaus Nomi's collaborations with David Bowie.
LINER NOTES:
[The only song on the EP to feature a drum machine, Wasting time is an opportunity for Melissa Weikart to reclaim her voice as a true instrument. She oscillates between deliberately meaningless sounds and snippets of lyrics à la Cocteau Twins, imitating layers of a synthesizer as she sings, making Wasting time one of her most authentic songs.]
[Melissa Weikart makes music to heal, airing out self-grievances and finding deeper answers to the riddles of life. Born in Paris, the singer and keyboardist came up in Boston, and relocated to Strasbourg four years ago. Her music has since garnered national attention in France—she is the recipient of the Nancy Jazz emerging artist prize in 2022, and the Concours National de Jazz à la Défense instrumentalist prize.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Melissa Weikart makes music to heal, airing out self-grievances and finding deeper answers to the riddles of life. Born in Paris, the singer and keyboardist came up in Boston, and relocated to Strasbourg four years ago. Her music has since garnered national attention in France—she is the recipient of the Nancy Jazz emerging artist prize in 2022, and the Concours National de Jazz à la Défense instrumentalist prize.
Weikart has always been driven by an experimental ethos that shapes her hybrid approach to music-making. Improvisation may be her watchword, but her songs are nonetheless inflected by the effortless euphoria of pop music, while treating her audience to constant wonder and surprise. Able to evoke love in all its kitschiness and fragility and to claim the voice as a true instrument, Melissa Weikart displays all her finesse and delicacy, delighting hearts, at every moment, without you expecting it.
Melissa Weikart makes music to heal, airing out self-grievances and finding deeper answers to the riddles of life. Born in Paris, the singer and keyboardist came up in Boston, and relocated to Strasbourg four years ago. Her music has since garnered national attention in France—she is the recipient of the Nancy Jazz emerging artist prize in 2022, and the Concours National de Jazz à la Défense instrumentalist prize.
Weikart has always been driven by an experimental ethos that shapes her hybrid approach to music-making. Improvisation may be her watchword, but her songs are nonetheless inflected by the effortless euphoria of pop music, while treating her audience to constant wonder and surprise. Able to evoke love in all its kitschiness and fragility and to claim the voice as a true instrument, Melissa Weikart displays all her finesse and delicacy, delighting hearts, at every moment, without you expecting it.
Melissa Weikart, French American artist, singer-songwriter, keyboardist, indie pop, dream pop, ethereal, baroque, jazz, "Wasting Time", experimental ethos, Parisian born,
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