John Tobin

KYM - A Woman's Journey
Songwriters | EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | RAR 3% Rec | 314 MB
Catalog №:PMCD0048 | 2006 | Label: Paradise Music

"A Most Outstanding Voice"
Dave Lee Travis - Broadcaster

Known to many as the voice of Maya, A womans Journey is the debut solo album by Kym.

Working with several outstanding musicians, this album is a collection of beautiful songs performed in Kyms own unique heavenly style.

A Womans Journey uplifts,inspires and relaxes the listener while taking them on a personal spiritual journey.

Produced by Chris ConwayLikened to the purity of Eva Cassidy and the haunting elegance of Kate Bush, Kym's voice has a rare quality that comes along only once in a while. Best known to many as the voice of Maya, A Woman's Journey sees the exciting release of Kym's first
solo album.

Customer Review on :
paradisemusic.co.uk & www.amazon.com

Sometimes, a musical accident happens which brings together strands from the past to make something genuinely new and original, but somehow familiar. Maya is one of those bands.

Kim Chandler’s voice needs no processing, no augmenting, and simply demands to be enjoyed. Her songs come from, and speak to, the heart and explore self-belief, unity and redemption. The twin acoustic guitar tapestry provided by Bernie Devine and John Tobin creates a sensitive but musically interesting support to Kim’s innocent purity, blending folk, jazz and blues with world music flavours including Spanish and Indian tonalities.

The band formed in 2002 as a distillation of a one-off musical collaboration amongst some of the leading musicians in heritage-steeped St Albans. Since then, Maya have performed only a limited number of concerts at small venues, Arts Theatres and Festivals as they honed their own sound and wrote and recorded their debut album, ‘Revelations’, released by Paradise Music in 2004.

'Revelations' is inspirational songwriting - Songs composed and sung from the heart with a true respect for the divine. Featuring 9 songs, this album takes the listener to a world of peace and calm.

They showcase a rare, instantly recognisable vocal talent who is attracting fans of all ages and musical tastes. Importantly for a live band, they deliver something special every time whilst allowing space for improvisation so no two performances are quite the same.

It was this set which, in company with one from Sir Colin Davis issued by Philips a few weeks earlier, inaugurated the era of 'progressive' Messiah recordings. They had of course been foreshadowed—by Sir Adrian Boult, notably, and by the work of such editors as John Tobin and Watkins Shaw. But this was one of the first to use a chamber orchestra, lively tempos and ornamentation: and between them Davis and Mackerras made us listen afresh to a work whose performance traditions had threatened to become hidebound… The forces aren't 'authentic', but rather larger, and women's voices are used in the chorus. It is however an excellent chorus, well disciplined and clean.