Award-winning Oregon jazz singer-songwriter Halie Loren has just announced her new album Dreams Lost And Found — and shares a vibrant rendition of the Mose Allison classic Stop This World. Loren’s take on the song feels bold and brash, with a rollicking energy that separates itself from the original — as her signature smokey vocals reinvent the melody in a fresh new way.
Halie explains why she chose to reimagine the song: “The world is growing ever stranger, and ever more estranging, and it can sometimes feel like the whole dang thing is about to break apart. Luckily, Mose Allison wrote a song for this whole situation. When life just feels too precarious to be funny but too ridiculous not to be a joke, and the whole rig feels just a little too reliant on those paper clips and bits of tape holding it all together, Stop This World is the song friend I can always turn to for some cathartic commiseration. It’s world-weary, a little bit brassy, plenty sassy, and features an infectiously groovy second-line rhythm and killer solos (by guitarist Sam Kirmayer and pianist Taurey Butler). In short, it’s ‘The blues for shaking off the blahs.’ ”
Stop This World follows the silky single For All We Know, which will appear on Dreams Lost And Found, her first proper album since 2018’s acclaimed LP From the Wild Sky. Dreams Lost And Found is due April 12 via Nettwerk/Justin Time Records.
Loren brings a fresh and original perspective to time-honored musical paths, channeling her innate understanding of connectedness across musical boundaries to forge bonds with diverse audiences in North America, Asia, and Europe. Her multi-genre and multi-lingual musical blend across her 10 albums to date has earned several national and international awards in multiple genres as well as significant critical and chart success along the way, with her albums consistently reaching No. 1 on jazz charts.
An award-winning songwriter since her early teens, Halie began garnering international acclaim as a recording artist when her debut They Oughta Write A Song was named the Best Vocal Jazz Album at the 2009 JPF Independent Music Awards. Accolades in more recent years include an Independent Music Award for her song Thirsty in 2011, a Best Vocal Jazz Album 2012 award in Japan’s Jazz Critique Magazine for her album Heart First, and four Billboard No. 1 albums on Japan’s jazz charts since 2013. Her video for Noah, from her 2018 release From The Wild Sky won an Emmy in 2019 for Best Music Video.
Halie’s live performances have brought her around the world several times, with performances in the U.S., Canada, France, the U.K., Japan, Italy, Egypt, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Egypt, and Haiti. Her concerts range from intimate clubs to grand halls to festivals, from solo to classic jazz trio to lush orchestral collaborations.
Check out the lyric video for Stop This World above, hear more from Halie Loren and peruse the track list for Dreams Lost And Found below, and find her on her website, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Dreams Lost And Found Track List:
1 | For All We Know
2 | How High the Mooon
3 | Dance Me To The End Of Love
4 | Sabor A Mí
5 | All I Want
6 | More
7 | C’est Le Printemps (Prelude)
8 | It Might As Well Be Spring
9 | All Night Long
10 | Stop This World
11 | The Fool On The Hill
12 | Under The Same Moon
13 | Sukiyaki (You Took Your Love Away From Me)
14 | I’ll Be Seeing You
