demo/Hör Upp!
Lisa O Lillportan : 'Cantering' demo (S,2007)*****
Lisa O Lillportan simply means something like ‘Lisa with her portable recorder’. These home recorded songs are accompanied by brilliant and delicate, mostly acoustic guitar playing, brushes of flute, or just once and again a flute arrangement, and just a few touches another time with hand cymbals. They are oh so heartfelt and strong. In various tracks, when singing a different song, her voice colours changes a bit along the way. I will give some possible associations to give a clue with the first three songs. On “Equitorial Change” it gives just a slight early Joanna Newsom feeling but then less bizarre, and with her feelings completely focused into the singing. On “Wendiwan” one could be reminded a bit of Diane Gluck, while on “Waves, whisperers, hunters and sailors”, her voices goes a bit more in the direction of the These Trails singer (a Hawaiian psychfolk collector with a marvellous voice). All tracks have small touches of extra layers in the voice (most comparable to These Trails). The songs are comprehensive and poetic, well arranged to a complete and expressive form, and makes me listen again and again. For me this is a classic, even if this is not even released yet.
