Monica, Monica, Monica how do you do that? I mean you are the spirit in the soul, like death is to new life, like sun is to new energy. You are what out people need, your the path of healing, your the healing of the womb, you are every wombman's Goddess, you are the sound of healing, the net for all tears, you are the simplicity of relaxation in a peaceful room. You are a wombful Wombsista I shall never leave you, for I am your listener for life. Peace, Love & Conscious Womb Thinking

this cd was soul soothing! I love it!

Her explorations and journeys with her beloved cello have been captured on her first release Blusolaz, a great starting point for any fledgling Monica fan or anyone who has seen her play and needs more. While Monica’s sounds are truly and uniquely her own, one cant help but run into the ghosts of Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, and others on the way. Her singing can be tender or furious, shifting gears on a dime, her arrangements and playing unlike anything you have heard before, creating combinations of sounds only a true artist could concoct. The title Blusolaz, a word created by the artist herself perfectly sums up the proceedings. A combination of the words Blues, Soul and Jazz, one can find 70 years of music distilled into 8 tracks along with a lot of experience. Chief among the tracks echoing her influences are “Bruised Fruit”. “When I wrote Bruised Fruit I felt like bruised fruit, I was in a difficult place and it was all about being able to express it, and not just express it but have the metaphor of the fruit in my mind and actually be true to what I was feeling. At the same time I think I was hearing ‘Strange Fruit’ by Billie Holiday and ‘Love for Sale’ by Ella Fitzgerald a lot, not so much listening to them, but around me as I recorded it.” --Excerpted from MagnaPhone Magazine, July 2004

I like how acoustic this album is, clean and simple, yet with all the sophistication that jazz offers. Its bluesiness adds a nice comforting feel to it as well. If I had only two words to describe this album, I would say, "Clean" and "Tight".