LORRAINE ROUSSEAU & ROBERT CARLTON

"A CHRISTMAS WISH"

Arrow Records

The adaptation of Christmas themes carried out by Lorraine Rousseau and Robert Carlton, gives us an album that can well be taken in three blocks. In the first one, evoking wintertime atmospheres through light piano touches, attracts the attention with the dialogue or symbiosis of the flute and guitars. As the themes go by, whose warmth is progressively increased by the electric bass and the use of some electronic pads, the relationship flute-guitar gives way to a new collaboration, now between saxo-flute. In this sense, the jazz touches are most remarkable in theme eight, "What Child is this?". After this theme precisely the third block starts, where the flute gets the only leading role in some melodies that nevertheless, possess a great density thanks to the background accompaniment of the electronic bass, guitars, drums...

LAURA S. GARCIA

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