Details: Consider this your invitation to Café Molly, a lounge bar like
they don't make them anymore. The lights are low, the martinis are ice cold,
the banquettes are velvet, and the stage is set for the electrifying talent of
whistler Molly Lewis. After the exotica stylings of The Forgotten Edge EP and
the tropicalia-indebted Mirage EP, Molly wanted to encapsulate the sound of
Café Molly for her debut album On The Lips, a dreamy tribute to classic mood
music, it conjures up misty visions of classic Hollywood jazz clubs, Italian
cinema soundtracks and lingering embraces between lovers. Recorded with
producer Thomas Brenneck of the Menahan Street Band at his newly-built
Diamond West Studios in Pasadena, and with something of an open door
policy during the sessions, a stream of acclaimed musicians ended up across
the album's 10 tracks, including Nick Hakim, Latin Grammy-nominated
Brazilian guitarist Rogê, Leland Whitty and Chester Hansen of Canadian
instrumental group Badbadnotgood, Chicano soul group Thee Sacred Souls
appear on the melancholy 'Crushed Velvet', experimental jazz pianist Marco
Benevento and El Michels Affair's Leon Michels. With her intoxicating
compositions, and wry brand of stagecraft (she might not be singing up there,
but she can sure tell a joke) Molly Lewis looks set to join her heroes in the
storied lore of the Los Angeles lounge scene and beyond. So pull up a chair,
order your favorite drink, and prepare to fall for On The Lips.
