Kevyn Lettau / The Language Of Flowers

Berlin born Kevyn Lettau established her Brazilian music influenced Jazz style in San Diego, California where she moved at the age of 14. Thus Lettau became recognised internationally as a singer with a unique personal style, blending many different popular song elements into the jazz idiom. Kevyn Lettau released the self-titled solo album for Nova in 1991, followed by the “Brasiljazz” album recorded with Peter Sprague and Mike Shapiro and John Bush. In 1992, Kevyn signed with JVC Music and recorded four albums for JVC including “Simple Life”, “Another Season”, “Universal Language”, and this one; “The Language of Flowers”.
My impression of Kevyn Lettau was one of the fine smooth jazz and bossanova influenced female singers before listening to this album. She made me so much surprised because her music style was very pop! As a matter of fact, the opening song "The Language Of Love" sounded like one of 1990’s dance music... I had felt that this album might be a kind of keystone for new style of "Adult Contemporary Music" towards millennium, then in 1998.


Release: 4 February, 1998
Label : Victor Entertainment Inc, Japan (VICP-60195)

Tracks:
1. The Language Of Flowers
2. Have You Ever Wondered
3. Lucky Girl
4. Little Things
5. I'm Better At Hello
6. The Heart Of My Heart (Bonus Track for Japanese version)
7. This Time
8. Show Me The Way To Your Heart
9. You Can't Go Back
10. A New Way
11. Far Away

Producers: Michael Shapiro, Yutaka, Jeff Lorber

Kevyn Kettau: Vocals

- Musicians -
Keyboards and Drum Programming: Yutaka, Jeff Lorber
Guitars: Paul Jackson Jr. Dwight Sills
Chromatic Harmonica Solo: Tollak Ollestad
Keyboards: Darrell Smith
Bass: Jerry Watts Jr.
Drums and Percussion: Michael Shapiro
Horns: Scott Mayo
Background Vocals: Scott Mayo, Bill Cantos, Julie Ragins

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