Kim Richey Chinese Boxes Music
by Kim Richey

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indoremanJan 2012

My introduction to Kim Richey’s music in 2007. This album got such a great review; I just had to try it. I liked it so much that I ended up searching out all her previous releases too… just 7 albums to date including the follow up to ‘Boxes’.

Such a good songwriter and guitarist, with a fine emotive voice.

“ Two-time Grammy-nominated Kim is a storyteller; a weaver of emotions and a tugger of heartstrings. Tender, poetic and aching with life's truths, Kim's songs transport you to her world, where words paint pictures and melodies touch the soul. And then there's her voice. Pure, arresting and honest, her voice makes you take notice…”

I would love to have been at her recent ‘cosy’ gig at York for just 50 people!

Jack And Jill
Chinese Boxes
Drift
The Absence Of Your Company
Turn Me
I Will Follow
Something To Say
Not A Love Like This
Another Day
Pretty Picture

I don’t really think it’s ‘country music’ but that’s the category she’s usually boxed in (pardon the pun!).
I guess easy-listening would describe a lot of the things I like these days... my tastes have broadened considerably the last few years, and mellowed quite a bit!

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A collection of 10 beautifully crafted and soulful songs make up Chinese Boxes, the first studio album in five years and the Vanguard debut from Kim Richey. Produced by Giles Martin (son of Sir George Martin and co-producer of the Beatles Love album) and recorded in London at Eastcote STudios and Air Studios Lyndhurt.

It's been a long five years between releases, but Kim Richey has clearly spent the time wisely, perfecting these 10 new songs. She clearly enjoys working with different cowriters, since eight tunesmiths--including such contemporaries as Joan Osborne and Mindy Smith--collaborate with her on this superb set. Producer Giles Martin (George's son, producer of the Beatles' Love) injects a somewhat more pop-oriented approach that works wonderfully with this introspective and intricately crafted material. "Jack and Jill" colors in the missing backstory of the children's ditty with sumptuous yet frilly harpsichord, flute, kazoo, and whistling. The title track recalls a snappy Suzanne Vega, adding multi-instrumentalist Billy Mowbray's sax, mellotron, and vibes, while "Not a Love Like This," the Osborne co-write, brings reverbed guitar and a bit of retro to arguably the album's finest and most robust melody. "Pretty Picture," the only tune composed solely by the singer, is a tender, intimate love ballad sung with heartbreaking sensitivity. Richey is in sparkling voice throughout, sounding inspired by her band, the production, and especially the magnificent tunes. The laid-back, layered sound on "Another Day" and the sprightly "I Will Follow" perfectly capture the nuances of their lyrics with subtlety and class, two aspects of the singer's style that have never been compromised. There's not a weak track here, and the sharp sequencing makes this an album that ebbs and flows with Kim Richey's richly articulated vision. --Hal Horowitz