Melissa Weikart Here, There 7/24/00

Melissa Weikart Here, There 7/24/00There are countless intimate, fret noise filled records from singer guitarists across the history of modern popular music, but solo piano and voice releases remain a comparative rarity. It's hard to imagine an artist better equipped to contribute to this canon than France based singer, keyboardist, and composer Melissa Weikart. A conservatory trained classical pianist and improviser, Weikart's accompaniment on her debut album, Here, There, swells to

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