Chausson/ Cargill/ Lepper - Fleur de Mon AmeFollowing their Linn debut, a 'breathtaking album of songs by Gustav and Alma Mahler' (The Herald), Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper return to fin de sicle Europe for a recital of songs by the 'crme de la crme' of late nineteenth century French speaking composers. Entitled Fleur de mon me, the album embraces the sensual soundworld of Hahn, Debussy, Chausson, Jongen and Duparc. The album opens with Chloris which recalls the elegance of the seventeenth

working hard every day to plant a new forest

Their fifteen songs on their first album

Sara Jackson-Holman is a classically trained pianist

But he does have the forest right on his doorstep

it should be noted

The collection attempts to remedy this

'One Day Is A Lifetime - Alternate Version'

which established Barbara as a top-notch soul performer

is featured here on this classic electro hip-hop single along with Ira McLaughlin

kaleidoscopic world

The band explains of the record: "The things we hold from our past inform who we are now and where we might go

Neah Johnson and Alice Clark - all of whom benefited from Mainstream's jazz track record