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Quotes
Regarding the CD "Dear Amelia"... "Most songwriters would have read those letters and written one sad song. Tessa wrote twelve, and somehow they are funny, hopeful and heartbreaking in turn. I have played "Washing Lines" on air more often than I should admit." - Rosa Mendonca, host of Noite de Quinta on a Lisbon jazz station -------- Regarding the CD Salt Air ... "They play like people who actually like each other, which you hear less often than you would think. The gulls on track two are not overdubbed; I asked." - Gordon MacInnis, music column of a Halifax weekly -------- "I have been the drummer of this band for seven summers and I still do not know what Tessa will play in the second set. That is the fun of it." - Duarte Lemos -------- Regarding the CD Postcards from Brazil ... "She came to Salvador to learn our rhythms and ended up teaching us a few Canadian fiddle tunes in return. On the record you can hear that she listened more than she talked, which is the best compliment I know." - Lucas Bonfim, percussionist -------- "Bright, warm and unhurried, like the first coffee of a long day by the sea." - Marta Queiroz -------- "Tessa writes for the cello as if she had played it for years. She hasn't; she just asks good questions." - Ines Coutinho, cellist -------- "The only pianist I know who tunes the room before she tunes the piano: she moves the chairs, opens a window and then starts." - Mia Lunde, recording engineer -------- Regarding the CD The Parfumerie ... "Every night the audience left humming a different song from the show. We sold out of programmes and had to print more because people wanted the words." - Helene Brassard, director of The Parfumerie -------- "A record of perfume, smoke and lamplight. Put it on after dinner and do not answer the phone." - Gordon MacInnis |
