Tug o’ War: Creativity or Content During These Tender Times?
Lisa Marie Simmons: “I find in writing songs that I’m often walking that thin line—I’m trying to make a personal, individual experience universal,” muses singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Simmons. From homebase on the coast of Italy’s beautiful Lake Garda, Simmons collaboratively leads two different ensembles: Hippie Tendencies and NoteSpeak, with keyboardist, arranger, and songwriter Marco Cremaschini, each deeply but differently informed by Simmons’ own struggles and triumphs.
“Lisa Marie Simmons has a powerful magnetizing voice for our time- for all time. Authentic and deeply committed.” ~ Anne Waldman, author of Trickster Feminism (Penguin Poets)
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“Musically and vocally, NoteSpeak consistently changes, shifting from style to style—acoustic jazz solos into hip-hop beats into harmonized gospel vocals into electronic jazz and fusion into free verse rhyming —and yet seems to constantly groove. Simmons’ delivery swims in the deep waters connecting Nina Simone to Jill Scott, completely obliterating the line between vocalist and poetess: Warning like a mother lioness, whippersnapping through urban haunts, and curiously wondering about it all.” ~ Senior Editor at All About Jazz Chris M. Slawecki
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