Album Notes

What Are You? is Mara Levi's second solo album, following the success of her solo debut, Life's a Ball.

Mara's second solo CD is a departure from the style of her first solo release. Intentionally eclectic, the album and its title directly confront the notion that anyone can be easily defined, or that people should be expected to have an answer to the question, "What Are You?"

Mara recorded every track on the album from her home in DC, using only instruments that she could play herself. The result is an album that sounds less like top-40 radio, and more like a reflection of Mara's varied musical interests. Many of the background vocals were arranged to mimic vocal groups from the '40s and '50s; bass parts run the gamut from simple bluegrass to actual countermelodies; improvised trumpet and vocal parts join open voicings of common chords to add elements of jazz; one song takes its structure and background vocals directly from Johannes Brahms; old and new voicings and sounds combine to give the album a complex and very human range and diversity.

Mara will be touring in support of this new album beginning March 9th, 2007. Check her website, http://www.maralevi.com or her myspace page, http://www.myspace.com/maralevi to see when she's coming to your town.

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