Friday, August 26, 2011

Rosalee Sings...

And she does it amazingly well. A lot of people probably know Rosalee better as the background voice of Steve Carlson, at least that's how I knew her for a long time. And I admit that I wasn't all that enthusiastic to listen to her first album when it came out.

That changed on the evening of 20. April, when Steve, Rosalee and Darren Sher had a gig at the Privatclub in Berlin and Rosalee sang two of her own songs. Fortunately the merch stand had her album, which I am now the proud owner of.

In short: I love it. Rosalee has a great voice, the songs - well, pretty much everything written by Steve and Darren that I know has turned out good, so no surprise there. Which, I have to say, is my one problem with this album. If you know Steve Carlson's music it is pretty obvious who wrote the songs for Love is the Way. The first time I listened to the album I thought that they sounded like something that Steve would play. The exception being 'Singing to Survive', which incidentally is probably my favorite song from the album.

From comments Rosalee made on Twitter I have hopes that the next album - yes, there's gonna be a next one - will be something that sounds more like her, and less like Steve. Because a great voice like hers deserves to be recognized for itself.

But as I said above, I do love her music. So go and visit her website www.rosaleesings.com, listen to her songs, and if you like them - buy the album. Come on, you know you want to...

Monday, August 15, 2011

All the Colors of the Spectrum

I'm a green magic drafter!

Take the quiz at Brent Weeks.com


Or in other news, I started reading The Black Prism (Lightbringer #1) by Brent Weeks yesterday. He's the one who also wrote the Nightangel Trilogy, which I love. I've actually seen people complain that the Lightbringer series isn't like Nightangel - of course it bloody isn't, why should it? *shakes head at the stoopid*
But something tells me that this series will be at least as good as the Nightangel Trilogy was.