Six thousand, nine hunded and seventeen days (roughly) since Ora Cogan self-released her debut album, I hear her music for the first time.
What an introduction, though. The Smoke is an insistent, groovy, ethereal number that hooks the unwary listener from the start and ends too soon, three and a half minutes later. Today's quotes comes from the social media blurb accompanying the video and is spot on.
The Smoke would sit comfortably on a playlist with Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, Anita Lane and Nick Cave.
Digging into Ora's catalogue on Bandcamp, there's a wealth of her own material, as well as an intriguing selection of covers by Sam Cooke, Slim Whitman, Buffy Saint-Marie, Slim Whitman, Bob Marley and this interpretation of a PJ Harvey classic:
The Smoke is track two on Ora's latest album, Hard Hearted Woman, out tomorrow, Friday 13th. How lucky am I, to have discovered her music right now?
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