Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Out of the Shadows
She beguiles me. She fascinates me. Her knack for hovering right outside a lyric, desire pressed to the emotion(s) within (a scenario she evinces literally for "Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird") reminds me of no one else I know and gets under the skin of my ears uniquely. Her name is Christine Correa. She's originally from India, and the Web, perhaps fittingly, doesn't contain much to explain her. Pianist Ran Blake's built a 50-year reputation on cinematic piano atmospheres; his liner notes name-check The Spiral Staircase from 1946, and "The Bad And The Beautiful" comes right out of the 1952 Kirk Douglas/Lana Turner picture of the same name. So his textures, rich in their simplicity, seem grounded in a tradition. But his singing partner weaves her own tradition.
Correa also performs with the Frank Carlberg Quintet, translating modern poetry into ensemble realms, so not surprisingly she approaches each song with an all-encompassing sense of each story and emotional map. "Deep Song," on loan from the Billie Holiday canon, changes gears five times. "This Will All Seem Funny," from country singer Steve Mardon, holds out hope for better times, but Blake's eerie sustains and heavy-drop block chords express skepticism. I never understand how Correa does it, but she wields such distinctive control to hold herself aloof, yet wanting. Blake's manifestly dark pianism grounds her but also undercuts, counter-comments, virtually chuckles at the idea of escaping shadows at all. That combination confounds a little, hurts a little more, and ultimately mesmerizes.
- Album: Out of the Shadows (2010)
- Artists: Ran Blake/Christine Correa
- Label: Red Piano Records
- Songs: (1) Out of the Shadows (2) The Thrill Is Gone (3) Deep Song (4) The Band Played On/Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird (5) Fine and Dandy (6) Una Matica De Ruda (7) Goodbye (8) When Malindy Sings (9) Mendacity (10) Social Call (11) Hi Lili Hi Lo (12) The Bad and the Beautiful (13) This Will All Seem Funny (14) Out of the Shadows (reprise)
Here's something you might be interested in.
Out of the Shadows
Out of the Shadows
She beguiles me. She fascinates me. Her knack for hovering right outside a lyric, desire pressed to the emotion(s) within (a scenario she evinces literally for "Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird") reminds me of no one else I know and gets under the skin of my ears uniquely. Her name is Christine Correa. She's originally from India, and the Web, perhaps fittingly, doesn't contain much to explain her. Pianist Ran Blake's built a 50-year reputation on cinematic piano atmospheres; his liner notes name-check The Spiral Staircase from 1946, and "The Bad And The Beautiful" comes right out of the 1952 Kirk Douglas/Lana Turner picture of the same name. So his textures, rich in their simplicity, seem grounded in a tradition. But his singing partner weaves her own tradition.
Correa also performs with the Frank Carlberg Quintet, translating modern poetry into ensemble realms, so not surprisingly she approaches each song with an all-encompassing sense of each story and emotional map. "Deep Song," on loan from the Billie Holiday canon, changes gears five times. "This Will All Seem Funny," from country singer Steve Mardon, holds out hope for better times, but Blake's eerie sustains and heavy-drop block chords express skepticism. I never understand how Correa does it, but she wields such distinctive control to hold herself aloof, yet wanting. Blake's manifestly dark pianism grounds her but also undercuts, counter-comments, virtually chuckles at the idea of escaping shadows at all. That combination confounds a little, hurts a little more, and ultimately mesmerizes.
- Album: Out of the Shadows (2010)
- Artists: Ran Blake/Christine Correa
- Label: Red Piano Records
- Songs: (1) Out of the Shadows (2) The Thrill Is Gone (3) Deep Song (4) The Band Played On/Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird (5) Fine and Dandy (6) Una Matica De Ruda (7) Goodbye (8) When Malindy Sings (9) Mendacity (10) Social Call (11) Hi Lili Hi Lo (12) The Bad and the Beautiful (13) This Will All Seem Funny (14) Out of the Shadows (reprise)