Caroline @Esplanade Recital Studio - Not a proper review

I bought tickets to Caroline Lufkin's performance at the Esplanade's Recital Studio because I thought the embedded track in the Esplanade website sounded really good. It was Where's My Love that got me hooked.....

In the bare studio, a table was placed in the middle of the stage with a macbookpro and a macbook (i think only one mbp) with Apple Pro Logic, an AKAI MPD 24, Korg Kaoss Pad, a guitar, a keyboard (Korg K series??) and assorted buttons, switches and knobs.

I didn't really check out what she looked like so when a little pixie skipped out from behind the curtain, I was a little surprised.

Caroline and Jason Greenberg (aka Repose) settled down and with a twiddle of the thumbs (him) and a little clearing of the throat (her), we were off!

They played a set that exhausted Caroline's debut album, Murmurs and included some tracks from her two singles. There was one other, as yet, unreleased track.

Starting with Sunrise, All I Need and Pink & Black, Caroline was trying to be as chatty as she possibly can. She was saying she is more used to dirty music bars and not a studio like this one. Hoping for friendly faces as she introduced an untitled new track by Jason under his solo moniker - Repose.

A brief pause and then she breathed the words of Where's My Love? Continued on to Drove Me To The Wall and explaining that they were really shy talking to the audience.

She sang Winter as well which is now fav of mine. The music is like a bricolage of Jason's influences. Bits of Lamb, Massive Attack, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Thievery Corp, Craig Armstrong....trip hop and down tempo. The best bit of each song is Caroline's voice which is well-pitched, at times wispy and ethereal and melds with the music and beats really well. A little bit of Elisabeth Fraser at times, Bjork, Beth Sorenntino....nice...

She was wooed back by the applause and sang Everylittlething as an encore.

Overall a very enjoyable performance and I got both their signatures on my CD. But the best thing was being so close to a real-life pixie and having a photo of us together. Blurred but it was already a bonus.