Valery Gore
BY Christian Martius
November 19, 2008 09:11
VALERY GORE PLAYS SUPERMARKET (258 AUGUSTA) NOV 21.
On an album whose dominant instruments are a piano and a soothing voice, it’s refreshing to hear Valery Gore avoiding the ubiquitous and tired cycle of laboured and introspective songs saturated in sombre minor chords. Gore’s first release on the genre-bending Do Right label incorporates a suitably diverse mix of the idiosyncratic and the meditative. Jazz-inflected piano stomps such as “Worried Head” and “Shoes Of Glass,” with their wayward key changes and sprightly ivory manipulations, do manage to challenge the more pedestrian conventions of the piano-led ballad or pop song, but her quirky approach also keeps her in the same company as the other kooky jazz-flavoured female pianists who came before.
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