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| Victory Review Magazine: Beth Hamon - City of Love |
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Victory Review, Summer 2006 Beth Hamon: City of Love (Self-produced) Available at CD Baby What a great record! There's nothing else like it! Self-proclaimed professional autodidact Beth Hamon, of Portland, cut this disc at Havurah Shalom a couple of years ago, and it's amazing. It's bright acoustic pop and folk, performed with hearty, honest joy. On most tracks, Hamon is singing with either Maria Callahan or Liz Schwartz, and the effect immediately recalls the Indigo Girls. Only Hamon and friends go the 'Go Girls one better: for some of City of Love is translations of Jewish liturgies, with the shadowing or backing vocals done in Hebrew! It's stunning, fascinating, and moving. Other songs draw from Jewish tradition and literature, and from present Jewish concerns, but Hamon concludes the record with Stephen Foster's universal "Hard Times Come Again No More," and the benediction "May God Bless." The recording itself is simple, with Hamon and sometimes Callahan, too, on guitar, and Richard Bell on bass. It was done live in the temple, so there's a bit of natural reverb - the vocals, in particular, can have that "singing in the bathtub" sound - but the content's power overcomes this technical issue. It's inspired, and inspirational. (Tom Petersen) |
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