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 Hosted
by Unplugged and Intimate, the launch of the Ginni Hogarth’s album
was a very successful event. Promoter Hadyn Wood always manages to
showcase the best in local talent pulling in DaftLane,
Jelutong and
Seela to support Ginni.
As
well as being an accomplished pianist, self-taught guitarist and a
wonderful songwriter, Ginni is also a fantastic performer. Her
'girl at piano' songs are dreamy, particularly the title track of
her album Between These Walls, and Starburst (not on the CD sadly)
where she sings, “bathing
in the language, soaking up the sun, drowning in forever, falling
just for fun”. It’s her acoustic guitar songs that allow her to
project her spunky attitude as she throws her head back, jerks her
shoulders and stamps her feet. For her posture and mannerisms Ginni
has been described as a female Paul Weller, and a member of her
audience described her as sounding like a “Tori Amos, with her
pants still on” (whatever did he mean by that I wonder?). She has
a unique vocal style that can be compared to Skin of Skunk Anansie,
(only not when she’s screaming her head off) Kate Bush and Sinead
O’Conner – all rolled into one.
Ginni
has the vocal versatility to transform from childlike innocence and
sweetness to the powerful and heartfelt emotions of a woman scorned
as in Hold On - "stop searching for something to hide 'coz you
know he'll find you there".
During this track the professionalism and the high level of
musicianship of Ginni’s band becomes even more apparent as they
alternate from 6/8 to 5/4 time – very impressive if you’re a
muso-type and tighter than a gnat’s nostrils.
The
fantastic band backing Ginni were Brian Greene (drums), Jerry Payle
(lead and acoustic guitar), Chris McCartney (percussion) and Jerry
Soffe (bass).
The
production on the CD is very crisp, not too much reverb on the
vocals, which is so often the case, and of course Ginni has a
wonderful band to back her up. You could argue that a couple of the
songs are lyrically predictable, typically female – but I think
that’s just the difference between men and women. Lads will write
about one-night-stands and shagging, girlies will write about love
and shagging. For men, good sex brings love, for women, good love
brings sex. Know what I mean? This doesn’t necessarily mean that
birds can’t write good songs just because they happen to be mostly
about how it feels falling in love, falling out of love and all the
feelings in between.
Ginni
sold a shed load of CD’s at her launch and deservedly so. If you
fancy a sneak preview of Ginni before buying her CD you can catch
her most Friday nights at the Three Elms in Windsor or contact her
at through her
website
for more details of how to buy.
Click
here
for the pre-event promo we ran.
Click
here
for Ginni's biography.
Review by Samantha
Carter
Copyright
Josaka 2001
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