Laura Scarborough
Chapter One: Desire
© 2000 Laura Scarborough (634479009846)
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The recipe of this music includes one sultry female voice, her 20 year relationship with the piano, analog keyboards, haunting guitar, passion, groove, delay, traces of Rachmaninoff, Billie Holiday, and Pink Floyd.
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- 1 Desire
- 2 Moment vs Tomorrow
- 3 This or That
- 4 Dreamscape Waltz
- 5 Find You
- 6 You and Me
- 7 This or That (home version)
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Laura Scarborough grew up a classical pianist in San Antonio, TX.
She moved to Austin where she went to school and completed a degree in music at the University of Texas at Austin.
While in college, she was exposed to a wealth of live music, and she met musicians that encouraged her to "jam and play by ear." She began to take a more free approach to piano playing and spent time listening to the great female jazz singers whose vocal style she was drawn to.
She also spent time exploring different vintage keyboard sounds and effects.
From there, her own song writing and sound developed - a unique blend of classical piano structure with sultry vocals mixed with various keyboard textures and colors.
Her current band in Austin includes Brannen Temple (drums), John Siebenthaler (acoustic bass), and Spencer Gibb (guitar).
Her first release, Chapter One: Desire includes four studio tracks, two live tracks with her current band, and an obscure home 4-track.
The record thematically deals with questioning and the trials of love and life from a woman's eyes.
The music is sexy, haunting, interesting, ethereal, and passionate.
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To a beautiful place and back again.
author: JulieDripping with seductive vocals, gorgeous keys, soulful guitars, and a heart beating rhythm section. Desire sets the mood perfectly, and is probably the strongest track, although my personal favourite is Moment Vs. Tomorrow, with it's trickling keys and soulful trumpet arrangement (Ephraim Owens). Dreamscape Waltz is a beautiful instrumental, and ends with some inspirational whispers. You and Me is one of the live tracks, and features the sitar and Middle Eastern inspired vocals. The other live track is Find You, and is another of my favorites. It starts out with a dreamy jazz feel, and scatting vocals. The guitar solo tries to drag you away from that, but then the keys bring you back. The first This Or That mix is more driving, with some serious weighing of consequences going on, where as the 4 track version is more mellow, and an excellent closer. Chapter One: Desire is without a doubt, poetry in motion, and a must on your frequent rotation list.