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Portrait: Nineteen

New music out now! When adolescence and menopause meet! And with the creative goal of telling new stories, this is the portrait of the artist as a young man as perceived by myself, his mother. Because women need to sing about their lives at all stages, including moments like...

The Lady of the Lake

Great news! The Lady of the Lake music video will be screening in Finland in September 2024! Like the loons, I am swimming in music we recorded over the past two years and working through mixing and mastering it while life interrupts here and there. I am making progress...

composition for ancestral healing

In this mournful period when the pandemic has taken hold of us all, one of our great sources of expression and comfort, singing together in public, was silenced. At the same time, finding myself at loose ends, I finally tackled some ancestral mysteries that had been popping up regularly...

Genius Loci North: new release!

Genius Loci North by Jeannette Lambert Genius Loci North is out now! Here are new songs recorded by pristine mountain lakes and forests here in Quebec, as well as some we recorded here in Montreal in our studio shed in the torrential weather of the summer solstice. I’ve also...

Spatterdock

Spatterdock by Jeannette Lambert We recorded this track after a leisurely day of kayaking and exploring the little lakes in the area around our chalet near Wentworth-Nord in the lower Laurentians. We set up our gear in the basement of a log cabin and proceeded to compose this together....

Mirror Lake

Mirror Lake opens with the bird song of my youth, a melody that resonates through me whenever I hear it, reminding me of my childhood along the rocky shores of a small lake in Sudbury. And I realized that I didn’t actually know what kind of bird was singing...

Jazzgrrl protests: nice for what?

After I first stepped out to sing jazz songs in public at the tender age of twelve, I was greeted with applause and then, a day later, an obscene phone call. I can see that moment so clearly still, the excitement of my parents as they handed me the...

When I was a web artist

Once upon a time I was a web artist, when it was a new frontier and I was cited as a pioneer in a big catalogue for an ambitious exhibition called Future Cinema. At that time websites were in their infancy. We were struggling to understand how we could...

Jazz as a parenting style

After rolling my eyes at yet another article criticizing modern parents for being indulgent with their children, I was happy to come across this article from the NYTimes that fit my own parenting philosophy rather better, How to Raise a Creative Child: Step One – Back Off! And the...