Azita / Life on the Fly
Album: Life on the Fly   Collection:General
Artist:Azita   Added:May 2004
Label:Drag City  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2005-07-25 Pull Date: 2005-09-26
Week Ending: Sep 25 Sep 11 Sep 4 Aug 28 Aug 14 Aug 7 Jul 31
Airplays: 1 1 1 1 1 2 5

Recent Airplay
1. Jul 26, 2008: Lost and Found
Just Joker Blues
4. Sep 06, 2005: Storytime!
Things Without Names
2. Jul 10, 2007: Alban Stands There
Wasn't in the Bargain
5. Aug 30, 2005: Stortyime! - creepy . . .
Another Kind of Trade
3. Sep 22, 2005: Eran Mukamel
Yours for Today
6. Aug 23, 2005: Storytime! -- I
Just Joker Blues

Album Review
Mandy Khoshnevisan
Reviewed 2005-09-01
Sassy 70’s-sounding piano rock, maybe Carole King meets Elton John? (Bill says Bacharach). Almost a broadway sound. Rambling piano, complicated cymbal-heavy perc, funky guitars; Azita’s low sassy female vox. Fun meter changes, unexpected melodic twists and turns, cool harmonies, literary lyrics. Yay!

1. (5:24) dramatic, showcase, lots of complicated piano, like early Elton John with more electric guitar.
2. (4:07) **FCC (one “shit”) midtempo driving loungy, funky electric piano
3. (4:31) darker, mysterious
*4. *(4:11) sassy syncopation with muted trumpet—jazz hands!
5. (3:34) very elton john electric piano; uptempo, jazzy vocals
*6. *(6:18) like a Broadway ballad; slower with busy piano, ominous backup harmonies.
*7. *(5:38) woo vibraphone! A knowing strut, a leading lady song with an unexpected melody. Noodly trumpet.
8. (6:01) laidback stroll, with teasingly threatening vocals
*9. *(2:54) sunny day bopping, but cautious—dissonant harmonies.

—Reviewed by mandy (la chanteuse)

Track Listing
1. Wasn't in the Bargain   5. Miss Tony
2. Life on the Fly   6. Another Kind of Trade
3. In the Vicinity   7. Things Without Names
4. Just Joker Blues   8. Antarctica
  9. Yours for Today