Jazz Articles about Erica Bramham

About Erica Bramham

Album Review

Erica Bramham: Songs From A Midnight Room

Read "Songs From A Midnight Room" reviewed by Phil Barnes

by Phil Barnes
July 24, 2018

Social media engagement can make all the difference for young artists seeking to build a following, but it can also distract. The virtual world demands constant novelty and 'events' and if you enter that maelstrom there is the ever-present fear of being forgotten as your posts slip off the bottom of your followers' phone screens. One artist looking to make sense of all this is Australian singer songwriter Erica Bramham, who you may remember from her exemplary 2016 debut Twelve ...

Album Review

Erica Bramham: Twelve Moons

Read "Twelve Moons" reviewed by Phil Barnes

by Phil Barnes
August 30, 2016

A song cycle that uses the months of the Czech/Slavic calendar as a compositional starting point is not the sort of subject matter we usually see from modern jazz singer-songwriters. Yet on this marvelous debut album Erica Bramham has used that unlikely theme as a starting point for her poetic lyrics, giving the collection a satisfying coherence. It doesn't hurt that the passing of the seasons is a classic metaphor for the themes of birth/death/renewal, used here in the context ...