
Music for hot nights and cool days Rhythm & Blues, Jazz, and … well just hear it

Based under the sun and big sky of Hawke's Bay New Zealand, Savornine's music reflects the challenges and joys of life everywhere.			It is bluesy, moving and emphatic, sung and played with passion for those who have seen a lot - and want more.
Savornine are Jacqui Thompson – vocals Jeff Reid – guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion Savornine perform as a duo, but record full-featured songs too

Début CD “Red Black Blue”

Savornine's first album "Red Black Blue" was recorded over about a year, with help from Andrew Gallie's studio in Hawke's Bay. It contains a mix of originals, influenced by the lifestyle and beauty of New Zealand, and some old favourites reinterpreted. All in all it should brighten your days and mellow your nights. Suitable accompaniments are good company, great coffee, or a Hawke's Bay red...

To hear samples click on the links below

1. Morning at the Bay Café (Reid) (4:13)

2. Lady and Gate (Reid) (2:32)

3. At Last (Gordon, Warren) (4:25)

4. Summertime

(Hayward, Gershwin, Hayward, Gershwin) (3:10)

5. The Coffee Song (Reid) (4:00)

6. The Perfect Woman (Reid) (4:06)

7. Bye Bye Blackbird (Dixon, Henderson) (3:53)

8. My Two Muses (Reid, Rumens) (2:26)

9. Red Bridge, Black Bridge, Blue (Reid) (3:49)

10.Love in Vain Blues (Johnson) (3:42)

11.All Shook Up (Blackwell, Presley) (3:05)

12.Hallelujah I Love Him So (Charles) (3:18)

13.Je Crois Entendre Encore (Bizet, Goliĵou) (2:52)

14.Kathy's Song (Simon) (1:28)

“A great album” - Big Daddy, Radio Kidnappers

“… great live track…. A nice album, bluesy , jazzy … “ Dave Raven, Raven ‘n’ Blues, Talk Radio Europe

Publishers permission to stream the samples for other tracks is gratefully acknowledged:

Mushroom Music NZ (Track 10)

Red Black Blue is available directly from Savornine

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The cover and label graphic for “Red Black Blue” are taken from “Second Sight” painted by Keith Grinter

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SOME HISTORY

Jacqui and Jeff first met backstage at a local kindergarten, during the annual Sid Vicious Tribute Concert. Some years later, when they were both in a bit of a lull after children left home, they met up again and decided to put their musical talents together.

Savornine is the result.

Jacqui was born and brought up in New Zealand. By repute she has some upper-class polynesian blood in her veins, after a group of 18th Century English sailors threw the captain overboard and then sailed a chocolate bar and a few local royals to a remote South Pacific Island. Despite this illustrious heritage, the stork dropped the newly born Jacqui down the wrong chimney pot, so adding in an Irish-Danish background, a shock of red hair, and a lifelong distrust of large birds.

Jeff’s also a bit wary of large birds, but that's a different story. He was born in the UK, and brought up in a household forever listening to Ray Charles (positive) and Jim Reeves (… not so positive...). In a bizarre twist of fate, the young Jeff was given a chess set and encouraged to play. Years later, and still unable to get a tune out of it, he switched to guitar and soon mastered a few blues licks, but forever after he has struggled to hold onto his pawns.

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