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If you're pining for that new release from Kate Bush you'd do worse than clamp your ears around the music of Lori Hawk.
A singer-songwriter based in northern California, she originally came from Seattle. But don't go looking for any Nirvana influences in her music.
I haven't a clue what's in Lori's CD collection but you suspect there are several albums by the aforementioned Ms Bush, Tori Amos, Heart, Rosie Vela and even Clannad.
Listen to Alive In This Dream (her second album) and you'll find the sound of each scattered around the collection.
It's starts with the Celtic-like Listening For You before veering into Bush/Amos territory on the pop-friendly Princess Mary.
She says her sound is looking for a fusion between new age orchestration and rock rhythms. Oh, throw in a few mystic Eastern references as well.
What you get is a song like Alive, which could easily have found a place on Dog and Butterfly era Heart.
There's no doubt these songs grow on you but you can't help feeling Lori Hawk wants to be known as Lori Hawk and not "the woman who sounds like..."
So having succeeded in the song craft maybe next time she needs to develop a sound which she can truly call her own.
Alive In This Dream is released on Strata Records 20022-1.
3/5
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