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Clicked On Romance by Ori Dagan

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Album Title: Click Right Here
Label: Scatcat Records
Released: 2022

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About the Album

Is life online in the 21st century a blessing or a curse? One could make a case either way, but if you’re Toronto-based vocalist and songwriter Ori Dagan, one thing is certain: there’s great material to be mined for a lyric, something Dagan always delivers with a wry and agile sense of swing. Click Right Here, praised by John Devenish of JAZZ.FM91 as “fun, provocative, fancy-free and spirited,” and by journalist and author Jeanne Beker as “the perfect balance between modernity and nostalgia,” is Dagan’s first album of original material. It offers a joyful escape from, and timely reflection upon, a world spinning out of control. Themes include online dating, social media, technological troubles and the quest for freedom and equality in a divided world. Dagan’s rich bass-baritone is unmistakable; his irreverent songcraft speaks to the lineage of Nat Cole novelty numbers and the impeccably swinging humor of the late Bob Dorough and Dave Frishberg. His scat singing has the natural, fluid, bop-inflected feel of the best in that idiom. Click Right Here, his most ambitious project to date, is sure to take him to new destinations, onstage and online.

Tracks

1. Viruses (Dagan/Flow) 2:57 2. Clicked on Romance (Dagan/Hiltz) 2:30 3. My Finger Slipped (Dagan) 1:36 4. Would You Swing My Way (Dagan/Benes) 3:01 5. The Social Media Tango (Dagan/Hiltz) 2:42 6. Hashtag World (Dagan/Hiltz) 3:00 7. Going That Counts (for Ella (Dagan/Metcalfe) 2:18 8. Rebirth of the Cool (Dagan) 4:09 9. 21st Century Blues (Dagan) 6:18 10. BONUS: Googleable (Version 2.0) (Dagan/Kieswetter) 2:33 11. BONUS: Video Killed the Radio Star (Horn/Downes/Woolley) 3:57

Personnel

Ori Dagan

vocals

Date featured

June 25, 2022

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