Ocean-Songs for the Night Sea Journey

Jennifer Cutting - Ocean-Songs for the Night Sea Journey

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Artist: Jennifer Cutting
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-02-01
Music Label: Sun Sign
Soundtracks:

Call Of The Siren
Out On The Ocean/Rolling Waves
The Gladdest Breeze
My Grief On The Sea
Dissolving/King Neptune
The Sands Of Time
Sleep (On The Deep)
Song For The Night Sea Journey
Forgiveness
Neptune Reel/Woman Of The House
If You Are Near
The Siren's Farewelll

Music reviews of Ocean-Songs for the Night Sea Journey

Music Review: The Washington Post (published October 15, 2004)
Rating: 5 Stars

It took composer and keyboardist Jennifer Cutting seven years and several Atlantic crossings to complete her "Ocean" journey, to meld sea and soul, myth and music into a thoroughly absorbing listening experience. It may take the rest of us nearly as long to fully appreciate the achievement.

No mere folksy, salt-water song cycle, "Ocean: Songs for the Night Sea Journey" is an album-length enchantment, orchestrated with great care, imagination and color. Cutting, well known in folk-rock circles for her tenure with the New St. George, wrote or arranged all of the music, drawing from sources as diverse as J.S. Bach, Gustav Holst and fusion guitarist Steve Morse. Among her own compositions is "Forgiveness," a splendid showcase for special guest Maddy Prior's soulful soprano. But the Steeleye Span vet isn't the only singer who leaves a deep impression.. Grace Griffith brings an angelic voice and yearning emotions to several ballads, beginning with the welcome unearthing of an ancient Irish song, "The Gladdest Breeze." Singers Polly Bolton and Lisa Moscatiello also contribute to the album's haunting charms, while Bulgarian vocalist Tatiana Sarbinska and the Washington-based women's ensemble Slaveya create a spellbinding weave all their own on "Neptune Reel / Woman of the House." Surrounding Cutting is a stellar cast of instrumentalists, many of them based in the Washington area, who share her talent for gracefully incorporating traditional and contemporary influences.

In the liner notes to "Ocean," Cutting writes: "May you lose yourself in its changing waters, only to find yourself again, renewed and restored." It's a wish fulfilled.

Mike Joyce

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OCEAN was named Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Folk Recording of the Year, and Jennifer Cutting was named Musician of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, and Best New Artist of the Year at the 2005 Washington Area Music Awards.