Description
This is a new album for 2023. IT IS A PIANO ALBUM; a collection of new and previously unrecorded songs for voice and piano, featuring the wonderful piano and vocal arrangements of Robert Pettigrew.
I have long admired the ‘Piano Songs’ format, but it was only after starting to work again with Robert, who I first met in 1977, that I realised that I now had access to the piano (and vocal harmony) skills I needed to make my own album of Piano Songs.
I have to say that I am very excited with the result. Robert’s sophisticated and dynamic arrangements, and the relatively exposed position of my voice, against a single instrument, pushed me to work harder on my vocal tracks than ever before.
And I think that you will find that this collection of my songs are as unusual and catchy as any of my past work.
‘THE TRICK OF THE LOCK’ is on the ‘Masters Of Art’ label and comes as a physical CD in a beautifully designed Super Jewel Box. It is also available as Streaming and Downloads from Bandcamp. https://judgesmith1.bandcamp.com/
An official video of Robert and I performing the title track can be seen here, and extracts from all the other tracks can be heard below:-
- Mission Creep
2. The Cosmic Commodore
4. Mercury
5. Skin In The Game
6. Nothing To See Here
7. Here’s The Thing
8. Best Before
9. The Little Flower
10. It’s Another Day
Here is a link to a review of ‘The Trick of the Lock’ by Stéphane Fougère on the French Language website ‘Rythmes Croisés’. All you francophones out there can read it at: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rythmes-croises.org%2Fjudge-smith-the-trick-of-the-lock%2F&h=AT2jfaBK_Edr_6uA2wB0RzgV3f0WXNjcvHQZyiOeZTy7Sb_o1x-CEZKe1mhbUV_gpHQRnRnfNV6p1mDu1CJx_KEhRwBe3gKCdx-KpqbiWMJk8Qe3Z4v94tYztuj8LkEZ0H9U&rms=v2&irms=true
However there is also an English translation that you can read HERE.
