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Soon after moving from the US to Canada in 2005, Kate began recording No Love Lost. She invited two extraordinary musicians (she’d seen them play a mean brand of jazz in Montreal) to come to her new hometown, Guelph. These musicians were Duane Andrews, a gypsy jazz guitarist from Carbonear, Newfoundland, and Patrick Boyle, a trumpeter from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. The first handful of tunes were tracked with Guelph engineer Andrew McPherson at his Monastereo studio.
No Love Lost is an anatomy of love. The songs are like jazz standards, though they are more intimate than songs written for the Broadway stage. In the elegy “Mary,” Schutt writes of love for a departed nurse and caregiver. In “Calamity,” she writes of a bystander’s complicated love for an infamous fallen woman. In two songs that may prove to be jazz standards, “How Much in Love” and “Two Halves,” Schutt writes of carefree love turned careless.
She also pins down unrequited love (“Peter Please”), old love (“The Moon Got Broken”), new love (“The Young”), and even true love (“I’m Yours”). Of course, an anatomy of love would be incomplete without a nod to rushed love and vanity—Schutt covers this with a daring and sensual interpretation of Sheila E.’s “Glamorous Life.”
Much of the album was recorded in Methuen, MA, just outside Boston. This allowed Kate to connect with her old friends and tap into that scene’s talent pool, including Boston musicians Dave Jamrog (drums) and Mark Shilansky (piano). Jon Chase, a paragon of patient and critical listening, engineered the Boston sessions and mixed the album once tracking was completed.
No Love Lost is Kate’s debut studio album with a full band. Guests include Boston blues legend Toni Lynn Washington (who provides stunning back-up vocals on two tracks) and Toronto bluesman Paul Reddick on harmonica. |
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| | How Much In Love | | | Wrecking Ball | | | Mary | | | Peter Please | | | Raining | | | Calamity | | | I'm Yours | | | Two Halves | | | The Moon Got Broken | | | The Young | | | Glamorous Life | |
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Kate Schutt - 8-string guitar/bass hybrid, electric guitar, bass, vocals
Dave Jamrog - drums
Duane Andrews - acoustic guitar
Patrick Boyle - trumpet
Mark Shilansky - piano
Toni Lynn Washington - back-up vox
Paul Reddick - harmonica
Tomasin - rhyme
Jeff Louie - violin
Cloe Kline - viola
Nat Barrett - cello |
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