Think Of Mist＜Colored Vinyl＞

U.S. GIRLS、JENNIFER CASTLE、SHABASON & KRGOVICHなど、名だたるバンド、アーティストのバック・ヴォーカリスト、ギタリストとして経験を積み、カナダ・トロントの音楽シーンにおいて不動の地位を築き上げた女性シンガーソングライター、DOROTHEA PAASが2NDソロ・アルバムをリリース!

BADGE EPOQUE ENSEMBLEにアレンジャーとして参加した経験を経て、ジャズ、プログレッシヴ・ロック、サイケデリックなスタイルを会得し今回のアルバムへと落とし込んだアーティストの成長を感じさせる内容に。JUDEE SILL、LINDA PERHACS、THE FREE DESIGN、BURT BACHARACH、吉村弘ら多彩なミュージシャンに影響されたという、ジャジーでアンビエント感覚溢れる非常に瑞々しいサウンドを奏でています。

After making a memorable debut with the inventively arranged mix of avant-folk and gently trippy art rock that was her first full-length release, Anything Cant Happen (2021), Toronto working musician Dorothea Paas continued to collaborate behind the scenes with others. While working with artists including U.S. Girls, Kiwi Jr., and Marker Starling, she honed her skills as an arranger with some of those acts as well as with jazz, funk, and progressive rock outfit Badge Epoque Ensemble. These experiences helped shape her sophomore album, Think of Mist, with which Paas tones down some of the relatively more assertive post-rock and psychedelia of her debut for an even gentler approach that combines her art folk with something more akin to jazz-inflected soft rock. Craft is a verb on a partly water-themed album that buoys and floats through tracks with titles like opener "My Hand Creates Ripples on the Surface of the Water," "Diver," and "Made of Mist," a connective track that opens with the sound of rushing water and a foghorn that Paas quickly imitates with layered vocal harmonies. The melancholic "Maybe Ill Fade," while not explicitly aquatic, is an ode to both Niagara Falls and romantic desire. Anchored in piano, it adds washes of shimmery synths as she sings of being carried away, both literally and figuratively. "Whatever That Means" is relatively turbulent in the context of the albums overall mellow flow, with a beguilingly lithe melody, jazzy modal progressions, and serpentine lead guitar adding a level of sophistication that defies easy comparison. Ending on the plaintive "Locked," about a lost love ("I have no idea why Im waiting around/Desire locked in time"), Think of Mist is another affecting and impressive release from an artist who should have more eyes on her creations. ~ Marcy Donelson