Val D'Amour
Songs arranged by Omar Torrez, Carlitos Del Puerto and Lisa Zane
Vocals arranged and sung by Lisa Zane
Initial production by Carlitos Del Puerto and Omar Torrez
Engineered by Eduardo Larez at Visionear
Mixed, with additional engineering by Lynne Earls at Earls Music Production
Mastered by Dave Locke at JP Masters
Guitars Omar Torrez
Bass Carlitos Del Puerto
Drums Curtis Bisquera
Percussion Christian Moraga
Keyboards Andrew Chukerman
Violin Lili Haydn
Trumpet Luis Eric Gonzales
Accordion Mark Goldenberg
Additional guitars Mark Goldenberg, Lynne Earls
Album
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..."
