A versatile performer and recorded artist, Clara Bellino is a French Chanteuse who has the pop melodies and voicing of a young Terri Nunn of Berlin with a little Stereolab thrown in. Clara Bellino was dubbed by Chet Helms as the freedom singer. Her organic style isnt only felt when you spend an afternoon with her at the beach or at a café. Theres no reason why Clara Bellino shouldnt be on the same stages as Sade, Marianne Faithful, or French-born Angelique Kidjo. Her and her band are seasoned and you can see theyve got shaking your booty at the top of their set list when you see them perform. A world traveler and born in France, she was shaped into a fine singer by her experiences on the road in the US and Europe. Her evocative lyrics stir the soul.Embarcadero Love is a landing place for those who want to hear a well thought out mix of songs that are at once womanly and eclectic. The characters in the songs are reverential to the objects of their desire, to the world as they see them. Theres a soaring quality in the melodies that makes lingering in their cleverness feel exceptional. You might get a sense that an album that starts with a song about a foolish man leaving his love during war - and leaving her to worry about her own protection and her own happiness in a time of need - would end up being a rock opera about wars like Al Stewarts Between the Wars. As the songs meander in wartime in the first two songs and introduce a song about reconciled love, a torn heart still hopes that someday they will meet again and heal the tears. You can tell theres something about the madness of war that is important to the narrators in these songs. The characters in the songs that follow find themselves in an Odysseal wandering where we meet up with an immigrant who has become an American who accepts what that means, how difficult it is to fit in, and gains an understanding of what it means to have to make it in Potential Criminal. This leads finally to a character who might not have liked rejection all that well and made her own Big Picture where everyone gets to be a lead character - even if it results in a story about characters just making do the best they can during a war.Sitting at home or in your car listening to Claras album lifts the spirit, like a chanteuse who sits in a bar and explains that even with a broken heart a larger world of possibilities exists, even if it means finding a way to conquer external love with the appreciation of more people with their difficulties. Spend song moments with them through the narrators in Embarcadero Love.Clara Bellino is catching lots of peoples eyes on the local scene in San Francisco and you gotta hand it to her, shes got musicians playing with her one might only dream about. Young, statuesque, passionate and heartwarming.This profile was edited with The CricketSoda Myspace Editor-- -- -- -- -- CDBABY LINK for CLARA BELLINO: Embarcadero Love --
