Eda Maxym
Imagination Club
© 2007 Family Tree Music (881184010029)
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A luscious and funky magical mix of haunting and sublime vocals with a bluesy world groove. Enchanting, sensual and innovative. Deep listening.
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“Simultaneously celestial and deeply connected to the earth, Eda Maxym's Imagination Club is a serious jumping off place for intensely sensual vocals, unexpected and highly evocative instrumentation, and near perfect pacing on the new musical frontier where Miles Davis, The Beatles, and other nefarious characters wait in the wings with their mouths hanging open, listening to their influences being taken to the next level. A wondrous collaboration of vocal, instrumental, and spoken word magic exquisitely produced.”
-Sandy Miranda KPFA producer/host
Songwriter, singer and performer Eda Maxym’s passion for music has propelled her far and wide around the globe and is reflected in her unique musical collaborations and songs.
As a member of innovative San Francisco bands Trance Mission and Beasts of Paradise she has performed in numerous venues including the Great American Music Hall, the Fillmore, the Rio Theatre, as well as touring concert halls and festivals all over Europe. She has toured and recorded with master didjeridu player and multi-instrumentalist Stephen Kent for many years and has also worked with many other musicians in the US and Europe and has a long and varied collection of recordings and soundtrack work.
Eda has just released her first solo CD Imagination Club to rave reviews. She gathered together an exciting group of musicians for this innovative recording which bridges numerous musical traditions. Joining her on production for the CD is Simon Tassano, well known for his work with Richard Thompson.
“On her first solo effort, Eda Maxym performs the equivalent of musical alchemy in the creative expanses of the Imagination Club. Maxym’s powerful voice (both literal and figurative) has grown and matured greatly over the years; from tribal chant, adding primal urgency to the shamanic excursions of Trance Mission, to the lush folk lullabies she sang for the Beasts Of Paradise. Now, with a stellar group of musicians and collaborators supporting her in a myriad of idioms (funk, folk, blues, world and rock) she puts it all together. Her re-working of the Beatles’ ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’ is erotic, scary, slightly debauched and fully charged. She gets inside the tune so deeply that she morphs it from the inside out to become something completely fresh, vital and new. Her original compositions also shine bright, even the moody “Dark Day” suggests glimmers of hope as she delves into the alchemical nature of the song, extracting golden nuggets of hard won insight and knowledge amidst personal suffering, pain and grief. To this extent Maxym takes a page out of William Blake’s universe, where experience is transmutated into, you guessed it, imagination.
A mature, sophisticated and deeply engaging musical journey, Maxym is a siren that sometimes sweetly, sometimes sadly, but always seductively beckons the listener to join her as a full-fledged member of The Imagination Club.
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DISCOGRAPHY
2007-Eda Maxym- Imagination Club (Family Tree)
2003-Simon Tassano- Tropic of Texas (Rumiville Music)
2002-Stephen Kent- Oil and Water (Family Tree)
2002-Trance Mission- Here (Family Tree)
2001-Sylvia Nakkach- Ah (Relaxation)
2001-Miguel Frasconi- Song and Distance (New Albion)
1999-Trance Mission- A Day Out of Time (City of Tribes)
1997-Stephen Kent- Family Tree (City of Tribes)
1996-Various Artists- Event Horizon Tao (City of Tribes)
1996-Trance Mission- Head Light (City of Tribes)
1995-Beasts of Paradise- Gathered on the Edge (City of Tribes)
1995-Various Artists- Event Horizon Psi (City of Tribes)
1995-Trance Mission- Meanwhile (City of Tribes)
1994-Beasts of Paradise- Nobody Knew the Time (City of Tribes)
1994-Various Artists- Event Horizon (City of Tribes)
1993-Trance Mission- Trance Mission (City of Tribes)
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Imagination Club
author: Alice D. KischLovely! I've given a copy to my daughter and my Goddaughter -- both were very happy with Imagination Club.
Rich harmonies, funky grooves, great stufff...
author: Symon MichaelI really like this disk for bunch of reasons - as a horn player, it was refreshing to hear trumpets and saxes washing long, slow, rich harmony lines over funky, fast-paced drum grooves, rather then the typical world-of-chops million note horn solos I'm so used to hearing. As an arranger, I thought the use of rhythmic spoken word against dance grooves (specifically cut #6) was essential and well-deserved. You can hear EVERY INSTRUMENT in the mix very clearly, and nothing feels like it was added as filler - all voices on all tracks are absolutely essential to the compositions. And of course, Eda Maxym's voice is really the strongest instrument here - powerful without sounding forced, smooth and well-balanced against guitars and the multitude of other things going on. Besides being well produced, this disk is really just plain FUN! My advice is: buy it and check it out already!