Lucia Cadotsch with More “Low Speak”
Four years after her first volume of “Speak Low”, also the first album Lucia Cadotsch released under her own name, she follows it up with a second volume, “Speak Low 2”. Once again bringing together vocalist Cadotsch with two Swedish improvisers, tenor saxophonist Otis Sandsjö and upright bassist Petter Eldh, “Speak Low 2” was released on 27 November 2020 by the Finnish label We Jazz Records.
Like volume 1, “Speak Low 2” contains reimagined new versions of classic songs from sources as diverse as Randy Newman, Brian Eno, Rickie Lee Jones, Luciano Berio or even Appalachian folk music via Nina Simone (“Black Is the Colour Of My True Love’s Hair”). Also like volume 1, “Speak Low 2” is garnering extremely pleasing reviews. “Her follow-up is even more startling…”, writes the Guardian. Calling it a “rich collection” the review concludes: “Speak Low II foregrounds Cadotsch’s crystal-clear lyricism more than its predecessor without ever cramping the freedoms of her classy improvising partners. She brings a graceful accessibility to a personal and ingeniously offbeat setup.”
Lucia Cadotsch was born into a musical family in Zurich in 1984. Inspired by her parents’ record collection, she discovered Miles Davis at an early age and went on to study as a singer in Berlin and Copenhagen. After several albums with Yellow Bird and Schneeweiss + Rosenrot (both Enja Records) and the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra (Moontower Foundation), the volume of “Speak Low” (Enja) came out in 2016.
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