Karen Souza - Velvet Vault (2017/2019)

Velvet Vault is a studio album by Argentinian jazz singer Karen Souza. The album was recorded in Colombia, Japan, and Brazil and released on 1 December 2017 via Music Brokers label.

Reception
Andy Hermann of DownBeat wrote "Souza brings a timeless quality to the material, whether it’s a standard like “I Fall In Love Too Easily”—rendered on Velvet Vault as a hat-tip to Chet Baker’s iconic version, complete with muted trumpet—or a recent indie-rock hit like MGMT’s “Kids,” which Souza, who also produced Velvet Vault, stripped of its original electronic instrumentation and cast as a ghostly piano ballad".

Ilana Kalish of Atwood Magazine noted "Since 2011, the vintage vixen has released 5 albums of covers as a soloist and more with The Cooltrane Quartet. But, Ms. Karen is no one trick vixen. Nestled in with the cornucopia of covers galore on her latest album Velvet Vault (’17) are some very well interpreted jazz standards. Which proves to an even broader, perhaps older generation of the music world that Ms. Souza’s chops are legitimate, and her kudos well earned".

A reviewer of Broadway World stated "Featuring several jazz standards, "Velvet Vault" is a more mature and more subtle than Karen's previous efforts, and she truly feels is her best album to date"…

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Tracklist:

A1 –Karen Souza I Fall In Love Too Easily
A2 –Karen Souza Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
A3 –Karen Souza I'm Beginning To See The Light
A4 –Karen Souza Valerie
A5 –Karen Souza I'm Not In Love
A6 –Karen Souza Feat. Toku You Got That Something

B1 –Karen Souza In Between Days
B2 –Karen Souza In The Blink Of An Eye
B3 –Karen Souza Walk On The Wild Side
B4 –Karen Souza Angel Eyes
B5 –Karen Souza Kids
B6 –Karen Souza Ain't No Sunshine