Finding A New Way, by Lisa Bauer

Finding A New Way

by Lisa Bauer

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$8 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

Get all 3 Lisa Bauer releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Finding A New Way, We Rise (Mama's Blues), and A Life That's Lead [Single]. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$8.25 USD or more (25% OFF)

1.	De Ja Blues 05:34	buy track
2.	Finding A New Way 06:33	buy track
3.	Devil May Care 06:49	buy track
4.	A Night In Tunisia 04:38	buy track
5.	Midnight Sun 09:10	buy track
6.	Ntjilo Ntjilo 05:54	buy track
7.	High And Dry 03:28	buy track

about

* Re-issue of the 2010 South African Music Award nominated album.
* Download the full album and receive an 8th bonus track!

Reviews:

“…Jazz in South Africa is of a very high standard and “Finding A New Way” is an album that is one of those leaders…” Eric Alan, Jazz Rendezvous, Radio 2000

“…Finding A New Way is an album each of these fine musicians can be very proud of. Lisa Bauer certainly has a lot to live up to after producing a debut album of this calibre…” Dex Goodman, WhatsonSA Magazine

“…Lisa put her heart into this one as though she has witnessed how ‘the stars forgot to shine’…” Carol Martin, South African Jazz Educators (SAJE)

“…An incredible album, total quality showing what a true South African vocal jazz album should sound like. It is an album that all jazz lovers should add to their collections, get a copy as soon as you can. I’m listening to it again. All musicians involved have lifted the game, a must have album.” Eric Alan (via Facebook), Jazz Rendezvous, Radio 2000

“Young vocalist Lisa Bauer… has established herself as a mainstay of the Cape Town jazz scene, working alongside dozens of local artists, recording with the a cappella group Track Five and touring with such celebrated World Music outfits as Starkravingsane and the LMR Trio. An understated vocalist and deft composer, Bauer is rather like the South African equivalent of festival-mate Patricia Barber, and certainly shares Barber’s hushed intensity. Her set was a study in focused emotional dissection, her voice as clear and pure as mountain rainwater.” - Christopher Loudon, Jazz Times
jazztimes.com/articles/27510-12th-annual-cape-town-jazz-festival

“Lisa Bauer’s music is full of joy. It is also full of soulfulness and sorrow, but her voice is packed with such delicacy that even woe sings like a plucked string. It is this quality that secured her debut album, Finding a New Way, a South African Music Awards nomination as well as glowing reviews from the jazz fraternity. Understated yet urgent, her vocals are spangled with the improvisational essence of jazz, the heartfelt essence of the blues and gospel and mystical riffs. Catch her performing a selection of her own compositions alongside standards from jazz greats such as Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie. Her ensemble features the cream of Cape-based players.”* – Miles Keylock, Mail & Guardian Friday, October 19 to 25 2012

Review, photographs and video of the Lisa Bauer Quartet ALBUM LAUNCH 13 January 2010 at the SABC Auditorium by Dex Goodman (www.whatsonsa.co.za): whatsonsa.co.za/news/index.php/emags/jazz-emag/item/50-lisa-bauer-quartet-finding-a-new-way.html.

Cape Argus TONIGHT: Gig of the week: tonight.co.za/general/print_article.php?fArticleId=5305635&fSectionId=365&fSetId=251 by Atiyyah Khan.

SAMRO: Read GWEN ANSELL’s review of the Finding A New Way album via this link sena.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=90&Itemid=1

Interview by Alice Romas with Lisa Bauer on kapstadt.com www.kapstadt.com/aktuelles/meldung/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=431&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=44&cHash=7bd9141ba5

credits

released May 1, 2022

Lisa Bauer - vocals/compositions
Andre Petersen – piano
Chantal Willie - double bass/backing vocals
Kesivan Naidoo – drums and cymbals
with special guests
Mark Fransman - tenor and soprano saxophones
Maxim Starcke - guitar

Recorded at Sound and Motion Studios, Cape Town, 2009.
Engineer: Matthew James
Mixed and mastered by Simon ‘Fuzzy’ Ratcliffe
Originally released in 13 January 2010. Re-released 1 May 2022.

Photography by Jolene Cartmill & Greg Hillyard.
Design by Max Starcke.
Hair by SAVAS HAIR