Sailing Home

Innocent voiced Rosana Eckert fronts a core team of Peter Eldridge/p-key, Corey Christiansen/g, Young Heo/b and Steve Barnes along with guests on percussion, woodwinds and keys on a collection of self-penned tunes. She can produce a mood that is soft and mellow as on "Blue Flower," ethereal and folksy on "Someone Else's Lie" and even gets bohemian on a reggae'd "Waiting." The piano and percussion is well pulsed on "Sailing Home" and she shows she can bop while Heo picks out the blues on "For Good." Some pastoral effects make "Meant For Me" an impressionistic delight, and she slinks with feeling on "Garby The Great." Alluring and well dressed.