Description
Label Review.
2020 album. Jazz vocal. Also available on CD.
Our Overview.
American singer and songwriter of what she calls Vintage Pop Kat Edmonson has a story to tell. It’s a story for all those who dream of a different path in life, and you can hear it on her upcoming 2020 recording ‘Dreamers Do’. With a sweetly mellifluous soprano echoing Blossom Dearie’s lighter-than-air approach as well as her gift for evocative songwriting, Kat Edmonson is a rare artist who embodies the spirit of the past while remaining resolutely au courant.
The album explores the shared human struggle around daring to dream and it illuminates a range of emotional and psychological consequences that can happen along the way. A question gets raised in Kat’s vulnerable original, “Too Late to Dream”: “Are the messages we receive as children about following our dreams relevant through adult life?” The album is a mix of Edmonson’s original songs and re-imagined Disney songs from the mid-twentieth century and takes place over the course of one, sleepless night.
Her unusually charming and seamless blend of old and new has garnered attention on “NPR Tiny Desk Concerts”, “Austin City Limits”, and “A Prairie Home Companion”. The album blends original compositions and reimagined mid 20th century classic Disney songs, and tells a story which takes place over the course of one sleepless night. Dreamers Do follows the release of 2018’s ‘Old Fashioned Gal’.
Tracklisting: A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes / Go to Sleep / In a World of My Own (With Duchess) / Night Walk - Interlude / When You Wish Upon a Star / The Parlor - Interlude / Chim Chim Cher-Ee/ This Old House - Interlude / Someone’s in the House / Carlyle - Interlude/ Very Good Advice/ Too Late to Dream/ A Little Night Music? - Interlude / All I Do is Dream of You / Be Careful How You Wish / The Second Star to the Right / The Age of Not Believing (feat. Bill Frisell) / Morning - Interlude / What a Wonderful World/ A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes (Reprise)