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Suzanne Palmer - Home [Star 69]

20:59 - November 8, 2005

by Andy P

The voice of Tiesto's Flight 643 Vocal Mix gets to release her own album with an all star cast of producers (Morales, Moraes, Rauhofer, Bailey, Fisher and others).

Suzanne Palmer – Home (Star 69 Records)

The Chicago born diva Suzanne Palmer does not get her proper due at times, she is probably best known for her voice as the vocal mix of Tiesto’s Flight 643 – Love Is On Fire but she is really well known in New York and Chicago. She has always loved singing and she is frankly quite good at it and she has one hallmark in her tracks, she always seems to use really smart producers (i.e Peter Rauhofer, Eric Kupper among others). She caught the interest of Peter Rauhofer a few years back and she has worked with him ever since.

Well she is now ready to release her solo album and it features an allstar cast of producers with New York Tribal King Peter Bailey, legendary house producer and deejay David Morales, Eric Kupper, Cevin Fisher, Angel Moraes and Peter Rauhofer, who is so multi talented, he even did the photography on this CD and he does own the star 69 label that released this CD..

Suzanne Palmer – Home (Star 69 Records)

1.Sound Of The Drum
2.Free My Love
3.Fascinated
4.Separate Ways
5.Luv 2 Luv
6.Keep The Faith
7.I Want You
8.Eye Can See U
9.Home
10.The Days
11.Show Me
12.Come Getcha Love
13.Luv Drug
14.One Day

Her album starts with the tribal banger “Sound of the Drum”, produced by Peter Bailey and the deejays are hammering this in the clubs. Saeed Younan loved it so much that he included it on his upcoming mix CD. I love how this track immediately catches your attention with the dirty and downright addicting bassline. David Morales appears in this album and he produces the second track Free My Love and it’s a real solid house track and the range of Palmer’s voice is outstanding. Fascinated, which gets the Eric Kupper treatment, which lets Palmer’s voice reach new heights and the music is just there as accompaniment..

Separate Ways continues that New York house sound and Palmer’s voice continues to just make my jaw drop, she is obviously more talented than Jan Johnston and Kirsty Hawkshaw combined!. Luv 2 Luv brings in my fave producer Cevin Fisher, who adds some grittyness to this album and Palmer’s voice shines through again and it seems like a broken record but her voice just shines on this album. Keep The Faith uses an instrument line that I just can’t really grasp or figure out, whatever the heck it is, I like it because it strangely makes me groove to the music.

“I Want You” brings you Angel Moraes, who is another talent in this ever increasing hoard of talented people on this album. He brings a drum filled drumline with some cool sound effects that come in and out and then there is Suzanne Palmer’s vocal that just reminds me of Barbara Tucker. If you did not see Palmer’s picture, you would guess that she is black, it sounds that different and that good.

"Eye Can See U" is probably the best track on this album, it immediately hits you over the head with the gritty as feck bassline and then the dirty ass riff joins in. Cevin Fisher is trying to blow you away and this track screams out New York clubland anthem and I imagine Junior Vasquez got ahold of this and turned this into a 14 minute anthem for his parties. Palmer’s voice takes a backseat here but its because Fisher threw in such a mean ass track. Home is next up with a vocal driven nasty piece of club NYC house and I’m now a complete fan of Suzanne Palmer’s voice. She is so much better than Hawkshaw/Johnson and Jes put together, still a little under the amazing Sarah Mclachlan but this lady got vocal range and boy does she ever use it.

"The Days" is a lower key affair and its really different with that melodic line and then Palmer comes in and totally takes it to another level. I’m not sure why I like her voice so much more than Hawkshaw, Jes or Johnston but it really works on two levels. The first level is that the tracks are not some rubbish B.S put together by an overtired deejay, who needs a vacation and a few mental health weeks to himself. The second level is that voice actually fits in with the track, not some wailing track with a diva voice for fun that deejays just hammer because its this person singing. "Show Me" is up next with a dark driving tune that just makes you want to get up and dance, reminds me of Shut Up and Dance for some reason but that’s another story for another day. I don’t really dig this track, the lyrics just don’t help and the keys that come in at points really hurt my already work fried nerves.

"Come Getcha Love" is another NYC driven house track, that should work wonders in the clubs of that city, it is more low key than "Sound of the Drum" and "Eye Can See U" but concentrates more on the drumline with the snares that add to it. Luv Drum is the second last track that really uses a bass to great effect and I just love it, this CD really makes me want to dig out my beloved Nubreed 3 CD and go into tribal land. One day ends off what has been a very good CD with a solid track.

Conclusion:
Normally dance music diva albums are pure rubbish but this is so good, that I think it will probably fit for airtime of my ears on my stereo over the next few months. Suzanne Palmer is lucky because she had the help of Rauhofer, who is a true genius in his own right but all the quality producers just make this album that much better. Certainly give this a chance.