Fortuneteller’s Folly

Brad Mehldau presents The Folly of Desire, a song cycle inquiring the limits of sexual freedom in a post-#MeToo political age, together with tenor Ian Bostridge, one of the greatest song interpreters of our times. Setting poetry by Blake, Yeats, Shakespeare, Brecht, Goethe, Auden and Cummings, Mehldau’s music shifts seamlessly between a jazz idiom and Classical art song, and the work explores a theme as timeless as it is topical. The stylistic diversity of this project is underlined by adding a selection of jazz standards, as well as a Schubert lied.

Californian group, playing somekind of Melodic/Folk Rock with minor proggy vibes.There are a few long tracks, which indeed contain some nice'n'complex drumming and impressive guitar exercises (sounds a bit like an American version of Flash during these moments), but at the end of the day everything is centered around the warm vocals, the harmonic/melodic themes and the controlled guitar solos.Lots of delicate flute as well, which adds an evident rural touch next to the acoustic sections, and songwriting is pretty.