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Poetry In Motion
Yasmeen's just completed sampler CD, Poetry in Motion features her gifts for lyrical and melodic composition on socially aware themes as well as her powerful singing voice, a collection marking the arrival of one of today's most edgy and soulful singer-songwriters.
Filled with catchy hooks and bold messages, sung in her trademark timber and syncopated inflection, the collection ranges from the punk-influenced protest song In San Quentin: A Song for Tookie, a moving elegy for the late gang leader turned peacemaker cruelly executed by the state of California in the face of international protest, to several meditations on the turbulence of relationships.
In the dreamy, exotic Bounds of My Love, for example, Yasmeen describes a by-the-sea tableau of missing someone, and nature's beauty in reminding her of it. The CD also includes the songs: Home In Your Arms
After The Storm
Are Ya Satisfied
Travelin' Man
Like her nickname - Jaz, Yasmeen's songs (wonderously) blend the jazzy-cool hipness of Erykah Badu, the personal honesty of Tracy Chapman, the sultry sound of Sade, the punk attitude of Patti Smith, and the defiant political sensibility of Ani DeFranco.
Yasmeen produced and arranged the songs on her sampler CD with keyboard and guitar player Scott Baldyga, a former bandmate of Ziggy Marley. Backed by talented session players Taki (on bass and guitar), Chris Rice (on saxophone and flute), Rock Deadrick (on djembe and conga) and Bruce Zelesnik (on udu), the songs showcase Yasmeen’s unique combination of soulful melodies, poetic lyrics and vocal power.
If it is true that poetry is strong emotion recollected in tranquility, and that the best songs are written, in Stevie Wonder’s phrase, in the “key of life” Yasmeen's songs are truly “poetry in motion.”