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TIMEOFF LIVE REVIEW EP LAUNCH JUL 2006 "Helen Franzmann (keyboards/vox/heartstrings) of redbreast appears in an adorable pinafore style dress, looking girlish - but with an edge. As a companion intimates, she looks gift-wrapped, and if this is the case then shed make a beautiful present! Sometimes described inadequately as ambient pop, redbreast show that their musical molecules also comprise of folk, jazz, opera. They open to the crowded and buzzing room with May, a rhythmically placid number with the drums setting a gentle trance-inducing pace while the guitar reverberates like a reggae riff on peyote. Ange Gadds restrained trombone joins the steady flow and gives only a hint of what she can do. Three songs in, and Brooding Sweat proves to be the place where opera makes frenzied and passionate love to jazz. Franzmanns voice arcs up and descends down for a quick nap in your belly before soaring soprano-wards in an ascent that has you straightening your posture in empathy. Gadds