Feist meets 80's electo jazz funk, Ramona Gonzalez aka Nite Jewel takes me back to a time when laser beams and satellite dishes were the apex of technology. The audible landscape is modern, but not current. It is immediately urban, synthetic, and optimistically curious.Good Evening succeeds in it's use of dated sounds coupled with Gonzalez' soothing, spacey vocals. Your friends might not realize it's contemporary music when you throw it into your mix at a get together.
There's a range of tempo and rhythm on this album, though the overall theme is driven by recycled sounds of previous decades:
Gonzalez vocals are spacey, similar to Debbie Harry on the iconic track, "Heart of Glass." That voice, coupled with the upbeat bass driven and synth riffed "Let's Go" delivers all the satisfaction of the disco floor with the sophistication of a fashion polyglot.
The instrumental breaks in "Heart Won't Start" are nostalgic and pop oriented, relying more on a rhythmic hook than originality or complexity.
With all the notable sounds, this album could easily have been a disaster, but it isn't.
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