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It is a particularly modern way of thinking but one that is nonetheless welcome as a distraction, as a way of encompassing art into both the daily life and music into the realms of everything that you, a memory aid for the busy lifestyles of the 21st Century of where you were at certain junctures of your time on Earth, the soundtrack to your life.
For Risa Hall, a woman who has already impressed with the New York Nights E.P. and the album Second Chance, Soundtrack To My Life starts a new phase in the studio and one in which the single opens out with a smile indelibly stamped within its grooves and keeps the thought running throughout. The simple elegance of the song, the whiff of Jazz wrapped up in the blankets of recall and covered with a timeless dedication to making a statement stand out with honour, Soundtrack To My Life is more than just a placing down in Time of a moment captured and one that reminds in depth of the fun and glory, it is that glory personified and Risa Hall brings it to life wonderfully.
With the complexity of modern western life ever challenging our perception, the glut and abundance of music jostling for the attention of the listener, placing the soundtrack to anyone’s life with such deftness can be tricky, almost bordering upon the complicated and yet the application should be seen as unique, no two lives are the same, no two perspectives of the scene are ever identical and the soundtrack will always be wonderfully diverse; it just takes through the power of a single song to realise just how important that is and how it affects each person differently.
Risa Hall returns with upbeat tempo but with gratification of a steady vocal underlying the truth of constant harmonious attraction between a great lyric and playful sound. A wonderful return to the thoughts of music lovers, Risa Hall knows exactly how to paint a picture with her feelings and music.
Ian D. Hall