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Jamie Woon

DiSvsMatt by Mat Hocking [Edit this content] ▾ 0 comments 16:04 May 21st, 2004
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Date: 17/05/2004

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A spark in the voice. A glint in the eye. Often what makes a singer / songwriter so captivating can be the most subtle of expressions. Jamie Woon **- a former Brit school student - has both. But it’s the way his soulful demure is magnified by a voice so effortlessly unique, and powerfully affecting, that gives him such entrancing sensibilities. It’s a sonic tension that clasps at your very core and makes you sit up and focus; a real conversation-stuttering sound that has every single person in this room drawn magnetically to a charm that radiates through his kinetic jazz-blues slurs.

It matters not that this is his first performance with a full band (and after just one rehearsal) yet they compliment his freefalling vocals so naturally, so incessantly. The bass plucks with a smooth, resonating pulse above cool jazz-surfed drumming that gently urges Jamie’s woozy *Jamiroquai *excursions, his voice curling through poignant, expressive meandering that is filled with just enough tension to have us all following his every phrase. It’s a somewhat short set but as it finishes there is a tangible feeling that illuminates the thick humid air, one of understated triumph and of a special exclusivity that a performance so inspiring could be confined to such a limited audience.

One thing’s for sure - this anonymity won’t last for long.

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