ALBUM:
Over the Moon
TAYLOR USED:
615ce
SONG CLIPS:
Over the Moon
28K | 56K | MP3
WolfSong
28K | 56K | MP3
CONTACT INFO:
E-mail:
kate @kate bennett .com
Web:
www. kate bennett .com
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In her song "Promise Me", Kate Bennett sings, "There is nothing left to say/fallen angels find their way/maybe it's a
gift of grace/maybe this enchanted place/we'll find our way". And when the warm and flowing layers of ethereal vocal
harmonies are drifting through your mind after listening to her CD, Over the Moon, you'll get the idea, and more
importantly, you'll experience the feeling, of finding your way through some enchanted place. Bennett's heartfelt
singing is the focus of this recording, whether her voice is riding comfortably through the calypso-ish pop chorus
of the title track ("I am over you/I was over the moon/yes, I was over the moon") or intoning the chant-like refrain
in "WolfSong", a song which emerged out of her love for Native American spirituality and her wolf-like dog, Luna.
Living in Santa Barbara has infused Bennett's songwriting with physical images of the mountains and ocean, and her
voice is the instrument that stirs and blends these images into lyrics expressing an inner life of emotion. Her songs
allow a listener to lose oneself, and ramble the back roads of a personal, musical landscape. And she has some guests
who make excellent traveling companions: on "WolfSong", Kenny Loggins not only adds gorgeous layers of counterpoint
harmonies, he also contributes enough additional musical ideas to warrant credit as co-writer. Bennett's songwriting
mentor, and Loggins' former partner, Jim Messina, lends a hand with guitar on several tracks. Highly acclaimed guitarist, Jeff Pevar, (of
David Crosby's CPR), twangs a bluesy solo and laces "Here and Gone" with elastic licks. And on every cut, an array of
Southern California's best studio players gives solid flesh to the arrangements.
In two songs, placed back-to-back on the CD, a subtle thematic link is accomplished by lyrical references to the
concept of "returning", a sort of spiritual homecoming. In a verse from "Buddha", Bennett sings of her own occasional
unfocused sadness, "I've finally learned how to take that ride/it's a mystery train/it's a return to love/everything
else is just killing time." And in "Home", she looks down from a mountaintop at, "water on stone/returning to the
river/feels like I'm finally home". In these two songs, as in all her material on Over the Moon, Bennett's lyrics
and melodies have a natural flow to them, very similar to the flow of water, returning to the river….
"Reminiscent of Joni (Mitchell) and Shawn (Colvin)" —Old Grey Cat E-Zine
"Exquisite harmonies…themes plucked from a lifetime of living from her heart and close to the land."
— Montecito Journal
"Bringing the melancholy world of twilight to life almost like magic…the album grows more intriguing with repeated listening, when it begins to reveal it's subtle charms and influences…country-inflected soft rock, bluesy rock, and adult alternative pop…"
— The All Music Guide
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