Album Name: Awakening
Artist: Frances Mai-Ling
Year/Label: 2002 / Independent
Review by Anna Maria Stjärnell
Singer and composer Frances Mai-Ling is a very versatile performer. She has written music for Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and worked with a magic show.
This record is another good sample of her art. She accompanies herself on piano and sings thoughtful songs on love and life.
Mai-Ling is very adept at conveying emotion with simple means. A good example of this is “Tears in my Palm” which only needs voice and piano to be affecting.
It’s an album that will get under the listener’s skin.
Posted on January 20, 2002
Track Listing
1. Awakening
2. Tears In My Palm
3. Guilty
4. Lost
5. Victory King
6. Naiad’s Song
7. My Last Excuse
8. For Jose
9. Stronger #8
10. The Girl