Album review

2010 debut from the Moroccan-born singer/songwriter. Meet Hindi Zahra and her original gently sense of melody. With a subtle, understated guitar accompaniment, a dash of gypsy guitar between the lines, and a hint of Blues but with a capital B. Intense, intimate, poetic vibrations, with a velvety feline timbre. Handmade has a playing time of 40 minutes and contains 11 songs, just what it takes and no more. The production and arrangements are her own, end-to-end, and already have the patina of maturity: a pared down sophisticated lady mood. A versatile multi-instrumentalist she has quietly, away from the limelight, gone about the business of building an authenticity that is there in her songs, always about love and people, very simply.