Agnieszka Swita - Sleepless [CD]

CD / jewelcase / 2014 Festival Music. The excellent debut solo CD from Agnieszka Swita called 'Sleepless'. Agnieszka is best known for her work with Clive Nolan on the Caamora, She, and Alchemy projects as well as Illuminae (with Ian Jones of Karnataka). Clive plays keyboards on this album, and also wrote the title track.From the very first line the tone of Sleepless is set. It is an hour of rock delight featuring soaring, melodic, and powerful vocals of Agnieszka and her writing talents. Her lyrical content dissects the fine line between darkness and light, life and death, solitude and hope, and combines them with crunchy guitars, ethereal orchestration and alluring vocals. The juxtaposition between the elaborate keyboard overtones and beautiful arrangement for strings hitting a brick wall of heavy guitars, driving drums and bombastic bass lines is the foundation in the overall construction of the album.