Shadows Talk
A seasoned songwriter with numerous soundtracks to her credit Calgary’s Marija proves herself to be wonderfully adept at breathing life into the stories she weaves through her impassioned vocals. Road-hardened and streetwise Marija sagely chose enormously successful producer and engineer Michael Wagener to put the polish on her debut album. Heading down to Nashville’s Wireworld studios she eventually whittled a 40-track dream journal down to the 10 modern ballads that made the final cut. It’s an amazing accomplishment considering that an unfortunate onstage accident in Vancouver robbed the chanteuse of the use of her left ear some years ago forcing her to relearn her talent. A local vocal chameleon of mainstream proportions Marija channels Stevie Nicks for “Can You Handle This?” and Shania Twain for the countrified “Human Again” and sounds like no one but herself on the self-conscious “Don’t Watch Me Like That.”
