Review – gilli moon “Temperamental Angel”
album on Warrior-Girl Music
gilli moon is one helluva busy woman.
She is a founding member, President and US representative of the songsalive! co-operative, she has had her
hands full with all of this and a couple of music projects, including Jessica
Christ , her own solo career and her own record-label Warrior Girl Music but she has
still managed to combine the last two aspects of her life in the release of the
first album on her new label, “Temperamental Angel”.
Reading the lyrics on this album (separately from listening to the music) is not like reading poetry, with rhymes in couplets or other well-used techniques in today’s songwriting: it’s like reading a collection of short stories about different aspects, fragments of and journeys within the author’s life. Then you turn the CD on and are immediately blown away by the ferocity of the mood-swings. Right from the opening track one is left searching aimlessly for the right superlatives to describe the travels this record takes your moods through.
There is a multitude of influences, sounds
and moods on this record. In the opening track, Communication, we’re
given a sense of Pink
Floyd’s One Of My Turns (“The
Wall” 1979) where there are two characters: one of which is talking but
the other doesn’t seem to be in the same room. Then we’re introduced to gilli’s inimitable singing and
songwriting style in the title track: Breathy, sultry vocals: a cross between Nicholece K Garner & Tori
Amos. The mood then flows through love-of-life (Plenty), the
expression of unbridled sexuality (Naked), through the heart-stabbing
pain of Swimming, the pure-hate of Disgrace, the musical
tug-o-war around the emotion of the Why Do You Love Me Still, the
“early-stages in the relationship/‘love makes you croon to the moon in
June’/there will be no end/this is the one” love of Touch Me to the swirling,
almost Phantom
Of The Opera/ENZSO
balladic instrumentation Alive to close.
Many people can be thankful to gilli moon’s input to song and
music writers in Sydney and LA, and all the accolades in her direction prior to
this release confirm just what she has been saying all these years. Now
everyone can see that there is a lot more to gilli moon than
actor/songwriter/record executive/artist/record producer/lead-singer – there is
a passionate woman that has a lot to be thankful for, a lot to express and a
lot of hard work ahead from the success of her debut album “Temperamental
Angel” on Warrior Girl Music.