KATE MAKI - On High

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 09:00AM
soundscapes in Americana

For her third album, Sudbury's Kate Maki headed due east to Ottawa, enlisting Dave Draves of Little Bullhorn Studio and Howe Gelb of Giant Sand (a return visitor, having tracked his gospel-tinged 'Sno Angel Like You there) to engineer/produce. Plainspoken and melancholy, Maki's voice is less adorned with rootsy drawl than many of her peers, a style that suits the direct, off-the-floor feel. There's a great group dynamic at work here between Maki, Gelb and Draves on the board, and crucial contributors Nathan Lawr and Dale Murray, especially evident on the unassumingly strange jug-band number "To Please".

Article originally appeared on Soundscapes - 572 College Street Toronto (http://www.soundscapesmusic.com/).