It doesn't auger well. Sister Bliss decides to cover "Deliver Me", a rather dull track by The Beloved, and also picks folky hero John Martyn to guest on vocals.
The result, given John Martyn's leaning towards blues, can best be described as someone doing a poor remix of Moby's "Natural Blues".
JOHN MARTYN: Over The Rainbow
(Island) Dry if deft handling of the famous song.
Martyn's move to WEA has produced two comparatively bland albums..
Glaswegian Martyn is a longtime fave of the English music press, which seemed to feel that his brand of folk cum jazz would never reach a mass audience.
JOHN MARTYN: 'Please Fall In Love With Me' (WEA). Slow, unexciting exercise, rendered even less successful by a Phil Collins production that shoves Martyn's remarkable voice to the back and has a bleeding great drum thumping away in the thick of it and drowning all else out. Sounds suspiciously like Collins' horrible gurgley voice on backing vocals, too; why can't he be content with boring half the world to death with his own wretched records?
The third doobie brother manages to cut a piece of electric funk that's clever, melodic and great to dance to.
Ebsen Storm's Australian film In Search Of Anna, contains two of the most haunting songs you could hope to hear - the title tune, and Certain Surprise, composed and sung by John Martyn.
Martyn's fifties trad jazz phrasing weaves its way through a sweet little riff on this pleasurable but forgettable snoozecruise.
Please God, let it be number one.
