SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: CARMEN QUILL – HARMLESS

CARMEN QUILL
HARMLESS
RUINATION RECORD CO.

The questions whether boundaries between jazz and more pop/rock-oriented forms were broken, or whether they existed at all have been long answered, with resounding positive answers. The one question though that keeps cropping up is whether artists taking that no boundaries route are coming up with good music or not?

One of the current artists trying to come up with a good answer to that question is double bassist/composer/improviser/vocalist Carmen Quill and she has her second response to that question within nine compositions (or songs) on her second solo album Harmless.

And yes, Quill has some very good to excellent answers here as she skips over any possible traps with such an ease that the listener doesn’t really bother to think about where her music is coming from. The reasons for that lie in the fact that Quill doesn’t try to overthink, or ‘over compose’ her music here – she seems to go about making the music as if she is guided by her instinct and obvious talent rather than any formal musical education she has.

That is why jazz and pop elements in the music on this album mingle with such an ease that you simply don’t care about genres and enjoy the music as is.

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