Description
VAL D’AMOUR is Lisa Zane’s 2nd record of original material building on the style of her debut cd: lyric and melody driven narratives favoring Latin rhythms, with one or two classic covers in a foreign language; Her collaborators, 3 time Grammy winning Cuban bassist Carlitos Del Puerto (Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder), and multifaceted Mexican American virtuoso guitarist Omar Torrez (Tom Waits, Roberto Mendoza). The record also features Lili Haydn on violin (Herbie Hancock, Robert Plant), and Andrew Chukerman on piano (Rod Stewart, Carly Simon) engineered by Latin Grammy winner Eduardo Larez at Visionear Studios, and mixed at Earls Music Production by Lynne Earls (K.D. Lang’s ‘Watershed’), ‘Val D’Amour’ is a hand made affair, detailing a live acoustic sound into what Ms. Zane calls, ‘precision balladeering’
“I named this record Val D’Amour (Valley of Love), because it makes me see an expanse of freely cultivated, diverse and wild-grown things in light and shadow, benefitting from each other’s otherness; that’s what I aim for in a musical repertoire, and in general…”
