Universal Music Classics artists, Twin Danger is the love child of heroin jazz and seductive darkness. Vanessa Bley and Stuart Matthewman. Two hearts beating as one; risk takers with an appetite for the unknown.
 
The daughter of avant garde jazz piano great Paul Bley, Vanessa is a guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. Her voice is as fragile as it is pure. It is the sunshine after the rain, however she best lives the meaning of Twin Danger. While not crooning along side Matthewman, she plays with her pop rock outfit Beast Patrol.
 
Stuart plays guitar, for sure, but his tenor sax is what gets under your skin. As a core member of Sade, this makes sense.
 
Together, Bley and Matthewman make music that is sleek, sexy, and sultry. Jazz- swing meets heartbreak-pop; cinematic blues for the modern romantic.
 
Twin Danger’s eponymous debut album is the soundtrack of today’s Jack Kerouac- hued speakeasy, transporting listeners to another time and place, while being firmly planted in the here and now. It is music to unwind to, to escape into, and fall in love to. “Pointless Satisfaction” is what you play when Saturday night becomes one with Sunday morning.
 
The collection of 10 songs commences with “Pointless Satisfaction” and closes with “Take It From My Eyes.” Throughout, Stuart’s cinematic musicianship and Vanessa’s yearning vocals reign supreme. “Coldest Kind of Heart” is the kind of song that becomes a classic. “When It Counts” and “In Many Ways” are thoughtful meditations fusing jazz and blues, while “Save It” and “Past Yet Untold” swing with mellow buoyancy.
 
The musical union of Vanessa and Stuart is a natural one. “We talked about music,” Stuart recalls. “I said I’d written these chords with a dissonance that I liked, but that I didn’t know what to do with.” A few hours later, Vanessa sent Stuart a finished song. “It was as simple as that,” Stuart says, smiling.
 
It is this pure, natural approach to music making that makes the music of Twin Danger so very intoxicating. Lost in music, indeed.
 
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