Hushaboo by Iris Leu
I bought Iris Leu’s latest album Husabo shortly after it was released in 2009 and listened to it heavily for several weeks, then got completely swept up in Alfa’s album Second Skin. Recently I rediscovered the wondrous feel of Husaboo’s tracks while browsing my digital music library and thought about the impressions I should have shared earlier and more…
While completely enthralled by Iris Leu’s song “Ambitions” from Permanent Transient back in late 2008, I yearned to hear more of her unique and entrancing instrumentals and lyrics. Then in early 2009, Hushaboo completely satiated those cravings. Iris Leu’s voice seems to imbue her lyrics with a feeling of distinct maturity and poetry; combined with a piano at the forefront of the instrumentals, her words take on stunning emotional dimensions. The songs I listen to repeatedly in this album are “Ipso Facto”, “The Red Bird” and “Twentyone”, and I love how “Manifesto” has an ethereal feeling to it.
You can listen to samples from and buy songs in Hushaboo through iTunes and Amazon.
Here’s a video of Iris Leu performing “The Red Bird” live:
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