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April 3, 2012

Belgium’s Rootstime Black Cloud Review

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Translated from Dutch to English via Google Translation
Trombone, trumpet, bass and those energetic voice including piano playing singer Davina Sowers, even the “hardest working woman in Minnesota called, – 300 concerts a year, it makes this ‘Black Cloud’ album one of the surprises in this time of spring. However, the group had already previously released albums. Nevertheless, due as Davina and her Vagabonds with this album is not in Europe break through, then there is something radically wrong in the sense of justice of the gracious music gods or the concert promoters, because this album sparkles and sways like a summer’s exploding solar flare.

Davina musician and composer, classically trained, began as a child playing the piano and closed since a love covenant with the piano keys with their vitality and spirit of the exuberant New Orleans charging. Her dynamic piano playing along with the golden tones of copper trumpeter Dan Eikmeier – The Dakota Jazz Club – and trombonist Darren Sterud colors this ‘Black Cloud’ album with unbridled lust for life. All instrumentalists sat for a while the music or jazz industry. A guitarist is not there in the club but bassist Michael Carvale with upright bass and cello is a plus for value seekers. And on the jazzy “Bee Sting” with enchanting Davina plays bass ukulele.

The temperamental Davina presents her mix of blues, jazz, soul, dixie and swamp with a brio as she unearths the songs and puurt from a gathering of memories, ideas, impulses and driving forces. She wrote all the songs himself and vary in genre, tempo and feeling. From the first instrumental “Vagabond Stomp” did you want to join and participate to resign, possibly on a run to put in “Start Runnin ‘. Her swirling piano and the horns suck you. Sometimes it’s as if they fire in her texts or blow it on her tongue tastes. Then again reveals herself as a female Randy Newman’s ironic, like the swinging “Lipstickandchrome. Sometimes she shows her vulnerable side along with the tender as “Sugar Moon” with the cello that leads out. The melancholy slow blues ‘River’ with a trombone solo comes across as a guilty confession.

Her unique voice which gladgeschuurde pebbles houses seem to have a magnetic effect, as in “Black Cloud” or the evocative “Pushpin” to the performances of the 1940 remember singers. A hybrid of Marcia Ball and Katie Webster throws it on the piano keys but when the Gospel like “Carry Him With You” performed with only delicate piano accompaniment, awakens in her the soul of Etta James when a love song aanheft. The narrative ‘Let’s Bring It Back’, which is swampy, sultry and cinematic develops, is another highlight. There is no doubt that this singer and her enthusiastic pals Live music will have the same impact as the suction in a New Orleans parade, where the exuberance only just replaced by a more subdued moment when a particular memory pains. It is strongly recommended that the Duvel Blues Festival in Puurs up front.

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December 30, 2011

Black Cloud Marc Silvers Favorite in Washington Post Express

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Express columnists aren’t automatons who output opinions or dispense advice, then turn off for the week (even if they may sometimes feel that way). They all watch television, for instance. And futz around on the Internet. Some of them even read books and eat food! For the last Express of the year, they were each commanded to reveal their favorite diversions of 2011.

It reads:

Davina Sowers, of Davina and the Vagabonds.

“Black Cloud” by Davina and the Vagabonds: Davina Sowers is many women in one: Betty Boop, Mae West, rollicking blues-tinged pianist, vaudevillian show-off. She shines like a slightly wacky star on her new album, especially on the title song, in which she seductively petitions “Mr. Lucky Man” to remove the Black Cloud that hangs over her light.

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December 18, 2011

Top 10 album in Minneapolis MN/Star Tribune

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We received this great honor from Jon Bream, with artist like Tom Waits, Adele, Lucinda Williams!

THEY WRITE :

“Unlike a lot of magazines and music blogs, we decided to wait until we at least got within Michael Cuddyer-throwing distance of the end of the year before spewing our year-end lists on you. And good thing we did: The two non-local records we agree on — by the Roots and Black Keys — came out in early December.

BREAM’S TOP ALBUMS

1. Adele, “21.” Heartbreak never sounded so liberating as the British soul siren purged the pain with deeply soulful aches and penetrating restraint. That boy was a fool.

2. Lucinda Williams, “Blessed.” The queen of Americana’s most emotionally balanced album sears, soothes and satisfies — with help from Elvis Costello’s emotive guitar.

3. The Roots, “Undun.” This concept album tells a disquieting inner-city story with razor-sharp truths and remarkably ambitious musicality.

4. Paul Simon, “So Beautiful or So What.” His lyrics are a little too egghead-y, but it’s the alluring blend of pretty melodies, resourceful rhythms and relaxed singing that makes this his best solo album in two decades.

5. Tom Waits, “Bad as Me.” The great eccentric one shows more voices and range than usual on another must-have album. His voice may be an acquired taste, but his concise songwriting here is unimpeachably outstanding.

6. Hayes Carll, “KMAG YOYO.” The alt-country hero delivers honky-tonking rockers and wistful ballads with a boozy voice that sounds two shots short of detox.

7. Eric Church, “Chief.” He makes radio-ready country music with the kind of rock ‘n’ roll swagger and skillful balladeering that would make Kid Rock envious.

8. Fleet Foxes, “Helplessness Blues.” This 1960s/1970s-influenced folk-rock collection achieves the kind of gorgeous pop majesty that falsetto-obsessed Bon Iver dreams of.

9. Davina and the Vagabonds, “Black Cloud.” With her piano-pounding Southern soul and New Orleans-flavored horn band, powerhouse Davina Sowers is the most soulful force in today’s Minneapolis Sound.

10. The Black Keys, “El Camino.” The amped-up blues-punk power duo is more accessible and ready for arenas.”

 

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