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Wendy Eisenberg: Viewfinder review – insightful jazz voyage into life after laser eye surgery
Instrumental interludes and unexpected shifts in pace mix with Americana and jazz, while the singer-songwriter’s distinctive guitar sound drives a song cycle like no other
The artwork for ViewfinderIt opens deceptively simply with Lasik, which promises a singer-songwriter album with light-footed lyrical delivery and pensive guitar. But its structure quickly spins out into something far more interesting and impressionistic; bold for the territories it traverses, unfurling as a song suite with swathes of instrumental interludes and unexpected shifts in pace. There is skeletal brass over rolling cymbals in Afterimage; pacy jazz in Two Times Water where Eisenberg’s guitar and voice waft through in canon over bubbling percussion.
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