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I am quite often late to the table with bands, and Tora Daa are no exception, but I find that being late, you have no preconceived ideas. I was more than pleasantly surprised with this discovery

After one listening , even before the song finished I was thinking why haven’t I heard of this musician before. So I googled Tora Daa and had an hours Daafest of videos and songs. Most of them in a rock/pop crossover vein. Which sits just nice with my peccadillos.

The musician in question is one Tora Dahle Aagard, from Norway, who is drawing comparisons to Prince and John Mayer, and I can see why. She has attitude, sass and sex appeal in abundance without prancing around half naked. She also has some great snarly faces. And as a guitarist, yes certainly up there with the aforementioned. There are also some very catchy hooklines with Princelike harmonies sprinkled over them.

So, back to the single Dear Lord. This is one of a few songs commissioned for the Trondheim Jazzfest, which the festival director Ernst Wiggo Sandbakk described as the best commissioned work in the festivals history, high praise indeed.

This song is a slow bluesy kind of number, with almost a childlike voice talking to God, wondering why they don’t like gay people, and she is sure if they (God) gave them (gays) a chance they would see gay people are no different to regular folks, and they’d all sing from the same hymn sheet. It’s like she is talking to bigoted religious people through their god and asking how they can preach love and unity, but hate people of a different sexual orientation. It’s a powerful message.

For herself Tora says she can’t believe in God, when she can’t walk down a street without feeling animosity and intimidation. But if there was a God she would write them a letter with these words in it.

Dear Lord is only a couple of verses and chorus’s long, then goes into a gorgeous sensual guitar piece which ends on some spine tingling notes being ripped out of her guitar, leaving you begging for more.

And more is to come, this is one song from her forthcoming album, available Sept 25th which features the rest of her Jazzfest commissioned works. I can’t wait to hear the whole thing.

But meanwhile check Dear Lord out available from Sept 5th. If you haven’t heard of her and the band before, like me, you are in for a treat. ****

Review by Andy Sharrocks

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