Singer and songwriter Ona Kirei has been part of the bay area music community since 2018, but with this week’s release of Mirage, her first solo album, she’s taken a major leap forward.
Mirage is intimate, bare-boned, its laser focus on Kirei’s voice, intertwining with piano, or standup bass, or a small combo. Some of the songs are like atmospheric tone poems. Ostensibly it’s a jazz record – her melodies, and her voice, travel to all sorts of unexpected places – but it’s more than that. Jazz is merely the launch pad.
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