Shrift, Lost in a Moment - 49m 31s

Tracks & Durations

1. Lost In A Moment	4:44
2. Sereia	4:21
3. As Far As I Can See	3:42
4. Snow Samba	3:36
5. Floating City	4:13
6. Yes I Love You	3:58
7. To The Floor	5:56
8. Hum	4:06
9. Once Upon A Dream	3:23
10. Blue	6:01
11. Lost In Portuguese	5:24

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Review

The aptly titled Lost in a Moment is Shrift's first album, but it's hardly a debut for the group's two members, singer/songwriter Nina Miranda and multi-texturalist/producer Dennis Wheatley. Miranda is a charter member of the celebrated British group Smoke City, which has scored European hits with its unique blend of bossa nova, trip hop, jazz, reggae and funk. Miranda has lent her unique voice and words to projects by such world music luminaries as Bebel Gilberto, Nitin Sawhney, Daniel Jobim, Jah Wobble and Da Lata. She is equally comfortable singing in English, Portuguese or French, and she shifts between those languages several times during the course of Lost in a Moment.

Miranda was introduced to her musical partner Dennis Wheatley shortly after completing the second Smoke City album. Wheatley is best known for his work with Atlas, a British electro band with a history of taking existing elements (Brazilian singers, string quartets, Randy Newman's "Baltimore") and whipping them up into delectably, danceably new ethno-electro mixtures. Miranda was familiar with his work under the Atlas moniker and was drawn in by what she calls the "depth of atmosphere and quality of sound." She found his work "cinematic and otherworldly," and in short order the two were building songs together.

The mood on Lost in a Moment is, as the album's title suggests, generally dreamy and soft, almost mystical at times, but with a worldly and modern edge. However, the project has plenty of upbeat, funky moments as well. Consider "To the Floor" a song that places Miranda's cool and carefree vocals atop Wheatley's funky breakbeats, big band and orchestral sounds, and handclaps before lapsing into a dubwise section that interweaves multiple vocal tracks and instrumental drama before ending with an impressionistic wash of aural colors.

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