Tina Hartt - Absence of You (2023)

Take an undeniably romantic French music world, add a heaping spoonful of Latin passion, a touch of mischievous Parisian flair and a fantastically versatile jazz singer!

While listening to Tina Hartt's new album, we are in the blink of an eye on the streets of one of Europe's most romantic cities, Paris. The singer doesn't even live there.

Tina Hartt is a singer, composer and musician born in Montreal with French roots but living in Calgary. He has had a varied singing career across Canada, including work in rock bands and church choirs in Montreal, big bands and jazz combos in Toronto, and as an actor, singer and dancer in Nova Scotia and PEI. His first album was released in 2000 - then he thought it would be his first and last. Fortunately for us, life didn't think so, so this year he comes out with his second album, "Absence of You". (Publishing date: February 17, 2023)

On this record, Tina and her band captured the world of jazz standards and French chanson with a wonderful flair.
Spiced up, the album conjures up love and wanderings in the small streets of bohemian Paris. He professes his faith in his own songs about the deep emotions of life. Accordion words, a weeping violin, special rhythms, and Tina's passionate voice sometimes invites us to tango, sometimes gently and caressingly takes us on the waves of love, and then shows us the tormenting doubts of the soul with sad melancholy. In the 1st, 8th, and 10th songs of the album, he perfectly combines the charm of the French language with the jazzy rhythms of the English language.

On this album, Tina testifies to her special art in a variety of ways: she is born and dies at the same time; even Life!