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here’s no denying that, throughout her forty-plus year career, Renee Geyer has traversed her fair share of musical territory. From pop chanteuse during the ‘Countdown’ days to duskyvoiced soul songstress and pretty much everything in between, Geyer rarely fails to surprise. It should come as no surprise to us, then, that her latest album ‘Swing’ is so much more than the collection of “done before” standards that the track list might suggest. While the album boasts such classics as ‘I Got Rhythm’, ‘’Fly Me To The Moon’, ‘My Funny Valentine’ and ‘Alfie’, you can rest assured that this homage to the big band era is anything but clichéd. Geyer, who will be visiting Newcastle later this month, told TE that while she was quite happy with the reception her 25th album had received from pundits and die-hard fans, she said she was a little dismayed that people may dismiss the album as yet another standards collection in the vein of Michael Buble or Rod Stewart. “I’ve always wanted to have a go at the big band thing, and there’s no doubt that the genre as been done before but I approached it in the truest way I could – by taking the songs back to their beginnings and really crank things up with completely new horn lines that really freshen up the songs. “I think that a lot of the reason it has
been overlooked by people who aren’t aware of my work is that they’ll pick it up, see the song list and say “oh, this has all been done before”, but I really wanted to make the point with this record that the more a song had been done, the more I wanted to do them – to set that challenge, you know?” Aside from the standards, Geyer has
also included goosebump inducing versions of two of her biggest songs – ‘Say I Love You’ and ‘It’s a Man’s Man’s World’ also with completely new feels and she said that during the course of recording the album, she had discovered a passion and burgeoning talent for arrangements. “We’ve got a brilliant band on the
album, and I think that’s something I pride myself on more than my vocal talent, is the ability to select great musicians to work with,”she said. “Also, I had such a great time working on the arrangements for these songs – it was very intense but also very rewarding.” Catch Renee Geyer when she plays at Wests Lambton on Sunday, October 27.
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