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Imagesong becomes the Patti Smith of this era with her protestive easy listening song, A High Vibration

For her latest single, A High Vibration, the up-and-coming artist, Imagesong, pulled together an impressive roster of world-class professional artists, including arranger and bassist Jon Burr, jazz vocalist Alexis Cole, saxophonist and woodwind doubler Marc Phaneuf, cellist Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf, and pianist Mike Eckroth.

Don’t let the track title and the smooth jazzy timbre of the instrumentals fool you. A High Vibration is far from your average good-vibe inspired song. It contains bruisingly broadsiding lyrics that would start a revolution if the world tuned in.

“How long will we accept the tyranny of power and greed” would be an empowering question if it fell from anyone’s lips. Stemming from Connie Marotta’s elegant chanteuse vocals, there’s a certain magic to them that invites you to imagine the possibility of artists shaping the world instead of capitalists.

The Jazzy ethereal work, A High Vibration, is now available to stream on all major platforms via this link.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Throw A Kiss: Imagesong exude excellence on ‘And Was It Just Luck?’ (ft. Alexis Cole, Jon Burr, Marc Phaneuf and Mike Eckroth)

After returning to our gradually healing minds in February 2021 with ‘‘Three Magic Wishes‘, Imagesong kindly shows us into more true beauty with the excellent ‘And Was It Just Luck?(ft. Alexis Cole, Jon Burr, Marc Phaneuf and Mike Eckroth).

Connie Marotta, the much-loved Northern California-based songwriter and poet, brings Imagesong to life with the help of some wonderfully world class professional musicians, to bring her superb original music and poetry to our happy ears. Established with her partner recently, the aim is to promote beauty and to inspire love to flow through naturally all over the world, just like it should.

From a very early age, Connie’s poetry was intrinsically motivated by a haunting and deep-seated desire for musical expression. This desire eventually came to fruition as inspiration began to flow into unique songs that generally span the smooth jazz/easy listening genres with specific relevance to love as a healing force in the world today.” – Imagesong

This is such a stunning jazzy-filled-with-sweetness single that puts you back into a time when no one was stuck like glue to their pesky phones, and appreciated true music with truth wrapped all over it like a stupendous bow of love. Her vocals are so calming and with such incredible musicians all over the place, this is an ode to a classic time with makes you smile deeply like you have just won the lotto.

The story of longing for the resting place with a kind lover is so abundantly sweet, when the road can be treacherous and lead you astray if you aren’t careful with who you let into your world. This is that magnificent feeling when you know that you have found someone who you can trust, as you lay closely next to them and feel each others warm hearts beat all night.

And Was It Just Luck?‘ from Imagesong (ft. Alexis Cole, Jon Burr, Marc Phaneuf and Mike Eckroth), is an awe-inspiring effort from a group of extraordinary top class musicians, who once again bring Connie Marotta’s vision to life.

They say form is temporary and class is permanent after all. This is a fine example of what can be achieved, when the sole goal is to promote love and harmony as one.

Hear this glorious new single on Spotify and see more on her Facebook music page.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Wild embrace of love: Imagesong (ft. Alexis Cole, Marc Phaneuf, Mike Eckroth and Jon Burr) bring that old school joy back on magnificent Jazz classic ‘Three Magic Wishes’

After the spectacular success of ‘Lost In Youin August 2020, Imagesong and their world-renowned team of Jazz greats (ft. Alexis Cole, Marc Phaneuf, Mike Eckroth and Jon Burr) are absolutely spell-binding on their brand new single called ‘Three Magic Wishes‘.

Well-known poet and songwriter Connie Marotta has brought her outstanding career as a poet and songwriter to life again, with her business called Imagesong.

Imagesong’s mission is to create beauty that inspires love and hope and an awareness of the beauty within that can flow out into the world.”- Connie Marotta

The quality on show here makes you blush at times, as you feel like you are lost in time, remembering hearing this type of world class sonic soundscapes thrust into you body like an invigorating bubble bath, to revitalize you spiritually again.

You feel like you are in a smokey but classy bar back in the 70’s, glancing at a smiling face who is looking deeply at you, your heart beats a bit faster and you feel the magic in your eyes light up longingly.

Three Magic Wishes‘ from legendary poet and songwriter Connie Marotta’s Imagesong (ft. Alexis Cole, Marc Phaneuf, Mike Eckroth and Jon Burr) is one of those songs that stops you in your tracks, to remind you that music and life can actually be about love and imagination.

The quality of music here is quite sumptuous and a real throwback, whilst reminiscing about when things were pure and simple, just the way it should be.

Hear this wonderful song on Spotify and see more on Facebook.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Utterly, beautifully, helplessly smitten – Imagesong’s “Lost In You”

When you feature such luminaries as Jazz chanteuse Alexis Cole (possibly the greatest singer ever to hold a top-secret military security clearance), the Grammy-nominated pianist Mike Eckroth (John Scofield’s New Quartet), and saxophonist Marc Phaneuf (Quincy Jones, LA Philharmonic, Aretha Franklin, Iggy Pop…) to showcase your songwriting talents, you’d better hope that your craft is up to the same standard as your performers.

Thankfully, for songwriter and poet Connie Marotta AKA Imagesong, it is. In spades. ‘Lost In You’, from the ‘Imagesong Presents’ portfolio, is everything you could hope for; late-night laid-back New York Jazz Club cool, Eckroth’s beautifully sparse keys perfectly complimenting Cole’s sultry, smoky vocal timbre and Phaneuf’s subtly understated baritone sax fills. ‘Lost In You’ is stunning, seductive, the aural equivalent of twenty-year-old scotch on the rocks and a slowly burning Chesterfield. Gorgeous.

Imagesong’s single Lost in You is available to stream via Spotify.

Review by Alex Holmes