Soesja Citroen - Song for Ma (1998/2021)

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Title: Song for Ma
Year Of Release: 1998/2021
Label: Baseline Jazz
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 60:15 min
Total Size: 356 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Introduction to Song for Ma
02. Song for Ma
03. This Year's Spring
04. Samba with the Blues
05. Sun in the Morning
06. My Town and Me
07. Lonely Street
08. Pace of Silence
09. Kol (Nights of Skopje)
10. In Twilight
11. Love's Knot
12. This Is the House
13. Spell of Desire (Helemaal)
14. Tell Me No Fortunes


Landmark recording signifying Soesja Citroen’s coming of age as a singer-songwriter. Her compositions highlights various stylistic features from the sweet jazzwaltz of Love Knot and the bluesy This Is The House to Tell Me No Fortunes - a mixture of swing and samba-ish rhythms. Essential for this album is the title track Song For Ma in which she describes herself as the little girl in her hometown of The Hague, sitting in a tree looking at her mother’s house and listening to her mother’s exotic playing of the piano. The warmth of her past and future reflections are captured in this haunting ballad. Another track worth your attention is Sun In The Morning - a light jazzwaltz refering to the freedom of interpretation / improvisation and inspired by John Coltrane’s My Favourite Things, a lifetime hero of Soesja.