Artist:Denise Barbarita 
Album: Chaos & Congeniality 

Producer, guitarist and singer-songwriter Denise Barbarita's 
second CD explodes out of the starting gate with three chilly-
sweet songs that restore your faith in the spirit of art-pop 
originality.  Barbarita's talents as producer and sonic guitar artist 
are matched by her vocal power and, most important, a fine 
melodic sense that lifts her best songs to majestic heights. 

Starting the CD with the spooky "In Pieces" might have been a 
little risky but it turns out to be an excellent introduction to all 
her strengths.  Imagine a Tori Amos (circa Little Earthquakes ) style 
melody over a Led Zeppelin acoustic-guitar hum with a gushing 
U2 production, and you'll have some idea of what this song is 
made of.  "Happy Happy" is a a short and sweet knockout punch 
of an anger song (it's the most requested at her shows), and 
"Appleseed" has a gorgeous melody, swelling choral backing 
vocals and sweeping waves of sound from keyboards, guitars and 
percussion that form a bed of lush aural blossoms for the song's 
somewhat abstract narrative.

- Reviewer, Jon Sobel, October, 2005

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