CD: Zee Avi - Ghostbird

Ghostbird is the second album from singer Zee Avi that released in 2011.

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The album's first single "The Book of Morris Johnson" was released on iTunes on 28 June 2011.

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Zee Avi’s self-titled 2009 debut. While interesting—and flush with Avi’s lovely voice—the songs ventured at times into a cloying cuteness. The listener was tempted to wish for a more mature, jazzier version of Avi. Luckily, 2011 gives us Ghostbird, an 11-song meditation that only gets better upon replay.

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One part island breeze and one part classic jazz, Ghostbird sounds like a record you would find in your grandmother’s attic, the work of some jazz age ingénue. But, no, you’re listening to Avi, a twentysomething native of Malaysia in possession of an old-soul voice. It would be easy to dismiss this music as easy listening, one more Jack Johnson-style veg-out disc, but the sheer beauty of her floaty alto voice and shimmering arrangements help it stand out and stand up to repeat listens.
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Track listing:

01. "Swell Window"  3:52

02. "Anchor"  3:23

03. "31 Days"  3:53

04. "Milestone Moon"  3:40

05. "Siboh Kitak Nangis"  2:20

06. "The Book of Morris Johnson" 3:15

07. "Madness"  2:28

08. "Bag of Gold"  2:39

09. "Concrete Wall"  3:35

10. "Roll Your Head In the Sun"  2:55

11. "Stay In the Clouds"  3:30

12. "Swell Window (Live from the Solar Powered Plastic Plant)" 4:16
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