Soesja Citroen - Song for Ma (1998/2021)

Landmark recording signifying Soesja Citroen’s coming of age as a singer-songwriter. Her compositions highlights various stylistic features from the sweet jazzwaltz of Love Knot and the bluesy This Is The House to Tell Me No Fortunes - a mixture of swing and samba-ish rhythms. Essential for this album is the title track Song For Ma in which she describes herself as the little girl in her hometown of The Hague, sitting in a tree looking at her mother’s house and listening to her mother’s exotic playing of the piano. The warmth of her past and future reflections are captured in this haunting ballad. Another track worth your attention is Sun In The Morning - a light jazzwaltz refering to the freedom of interpretation / improvisation and inspired by John Coltrane’s My Favourite Things, a lifetime hero of Soesja.