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Distances

~ Norma Winstone
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  • Audio CD (24 Mar 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: ECM
  • ASIN: B0012NON7U
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 23,127 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Distances
2. Every Time We Say Goodbye
3. Drifter
4. Giant's Gentle Stride
5. Gorizia
6. Ciant
7. The Mermaid
8. Here Comes The Flood
9. Remembering the Start of a Never Ending Story
10. A Song for England

Product Description

The Guardian, (John Fordham), March 28, 2008
(4 stars) Understatement, stillness, technical precision and quiet soulfulness...Winstone's remarkable voice manages to be both sumptuous and airily ethereal.


Jazzwise, (Duncan Heining), May 2008
(4 stars) The sense of unity and coherence of mood, atmosphere and imagination that pervades these 10 tracks is exceptional.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Art music, for better or worse (part 2), 19 Dec 2008
By J. Severidt "jornfin" (Rovaniemi, Finland) - See all my reviews
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I hope I may be forgiven for copy-pasting my review of another ECM release, Susanne Abbuehl's "Compass". Except for the fact that Winstone's voice is more sophisticated than the much younger Abbuehl's, I really do not see any remarkable difference between the two albums. I love them both, just the way they are! A listener expecting a jazz album, might be disappointed, though.

Even after the first few notes I thought "this is art music". This is not a soul on fire turning their insides out, but a highly skilled performer creating something extraordinary to achieve a certain effect. Art, of course, can mean "high art", and it can mean "artificial". It means both, here. A white, highly educated, middle class girl singing "Black is the color of my true loves hair" doesn't really make sense. On the other hand, what she does with the song is nothing short of spectacular.
Norma Winstone has a beautiful, variable voice that she uses like an instrument, at most times, even though she is singing lyrics. There is an air of coolness, and of distance. Very intriguing, though ultimately not entirely satisfying over 50 minutes. There is a lot of focus on detail, with piano and bass clarinet providing an always interesting, engaging background for the engaging vocals.
Ten minutes into this album I thought I'd give it five stars at least. This, clearly, was the most interesting vocal music I had heard in years. Thirty minutes into it, three stars seemed more realistic. I found myself missing a little more immediacy instead of the intellectual distance on offer.
I finally settled for four stars, meaning very good, though not perfect.

Definitely an album worth checking out. Depending on how intellectual you like your jazz, this could blow your mind - or simply bore you.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good for the distance, 20 Oct 2008
By degrant "degrant" (London) - See all my reviews
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Accompanied by piano and clarinet or sax, Norma Winstone has created an album of rare beauty. Spare yet sensuous, "Distance" showcases perfectly her rich, expressive voice conveying warmth and sadness within an instant over an eclectic mix of originals and covers of songs by Cole Porter, Peter Gabriel and Erik Satie.

The opening "Distance" is the highlight as a wonderful vocal realises the imagery of birds "turning on heights of invisible air". Winstone is a grossly underrated lyricist and throughout the album, the beautiful tones of voice, piano and reeds enhance the predominant lyrical theme of the passing of time. In "Ciant" Winstone sets a lyric by Pier Paolo Passolini to a tune by Satie and, like all the best covers, radically reworks and appropriates "Every time we say goodbye" while the lyrics to the Coltrane tribute "Giant Steps" read like a cross between Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes in their appreciation and realisation of landscape. Not everything works unequivocally, but there is no doubt that Winstone has created a unique, strong and vital recording.
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