Review – gilli moon “Woman”
album on Warrior-Girl Music
What is it about gilli moon? Here she is with a new record after the exceptional diversity and success of “Temperamental Angel” and it’s almost like Angel came out just last week. But no – it’s been more than a year now and I am at a loss as to how good “Woman”, on gilli’s own Warrior Girl Music label, really is.
Reading my review of Angel, I could probably just cut and paste that across to this one. But no, I will resist the temptation (sorry) and, like gilli, come up with something new. The record progresses like one of those 1970s concept albums… it has a prologue “Real – The Opening Ceremony” and an epilogue “Home,” it celebrates gilli’s femininity by roaring I Am (A) Woman and effortlessly moves as many emotions and genres as there are images and effigies of the woman herself.
It’s a credit to
anyone who can uproot themselves as gilli did all those years ago and, after the success she so richly
deserves, to still maintain the artistic ingenuity, indie
street-cred and seriously good music making ideas
instead of letting the so-called City
of Angels sucked them out of her like so many other artists (music or
otherwise) who have found themselves on the wrong side of the Pacific. Save for
that annoying Cher-effect in the title track, “Woman” is an album that
is faultless. It rocks heavily, it sways gently, it even has a short John Cage styled
moment to keep you guessing.
gilli
moon is a wonderful
artist – musically and otherwise. Anyone who has been privy to a live
performance (alas – I am but one of the unlucky ones who have
not) will be able to support this claim, as will anyone who has any of her
other records (even the one she doesn’t talk about). Hopefully, these words
won’t be needed to sell this record, as it will move itself. “Woman”
through Warrior
Girl Music (contact Stephen at AMB to see how to
get it in Oz): to label it with a meer star-rating
would be the an injustice…