Emily Bezar
Angels' Abacus
© 2004 DemiVox Records (789181089928)
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Intricate, uncategorizable art songs, drawing freely from classical, jazz, pop and electronic music to create an enchanting sound world.
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"Bezar is a genre unto herself."
- Exposé Magazine
"Emily Bezar is an original, and deserves to be regarded as such....This is mature, intelligent, beautiful music, deserving of a place in the music library of anyone with a mind and a soul. "
- Progression Magazine
"Emily Bezar has never been interested in making average pop records; one of the hallmarks of her greatness has always been a sense of ambition--something lacking in much of the 'comfort-food-for-the-post-9/11-crowd' music that pervades the airwaves."
-Puremusic.com
With her 4th and latest album, "Angels' Abacus," written while Emily was living in France from 2001-2003, she has produced her most operatic and ambitious work yet. This is music as architecture, as crystalline objects in time, with no agenda but its own sensual and complex beauty. Her voice, emotionally vivid but with a sheen of elegant reserve, glides and leaps over a landscape rich in electronic nuance and sparkling jazz-tinged piano. Her songs are kinetic and never languish, surging from delicate to intense, from open simplicity to opaque density, but always ravishingly melodic.
"Angels' Abacus" is a meditation on love and faith in all of their ecstasies and in their doubts. In the title track she imagines an angelic conference discussing the fate of her and her lover. "This isn't about renewal and redemption. It's about wondering if there's someone keeping score on you up there and you're just trying to cling to the next rung. It's about conscience and the gravity of decision in life and love....wondering does every action negate the last or does it all add up? And I've always been consumed by the inner struggle between my reason and my intuition. I think it's an intriguing paradox that an agent of faith, the angel, would be calculating our souls' destiny."
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It doesn’t get any better than this.
author: ProgNaut.comEmily Bezar: a singer, composer and keyboard player who has four albums to date. Her musical style is more towards the soft jazz, classical and art rock. While vocally she can be compared to Tori Amos and Kate Bush. Recently she released her fourth album, Angels' Abacus. I only have one other of her releases (Moon in Grenadine) and the music is more accessible while retaining the originality of her previous work. This will appeal to the audiences that demand something more than what is currently available in the mainstream music world. Power arrangements, beautifully sung lyrics. It doesn’t get any better than this. Emily is one of those "unsung" tallented vocalists/musicians of our day and hopefully that will change very soon. Yet she has the presence of the afore mentioned Amos & Bush while having a classic vocal styling that is easily recognizable. Reviewed by Ron Fuchs on December 22nd, 2004
Angelic Dialogues
author: Craig GidneyImagine Kate Bush with operatic training hears Bitches Brew for the first time. In the middle of recording her homage to Joni Mitchell's "Hejira", she hears the acid jazz electronica of Kruder & Dorfmeister, and gets some ideas...And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There are wild sonic adventures here, layers of sound in each composition that mix prog rock, leider, lounge, and electronica but they have accessibile melodies and poetic lyrics about down-to-earth subjects to balance them out. And there's that voice, rich and regal as Lisa Gerrard's. Noone makes records quite like Ms. Bezar. For fans of Jane Siberry, Meredith Monk and Joan LaBarbara.