{"id":150184,"date":"2025-12-10T21:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/records\/whitney-ross-barris-curtains-of-light\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:11:06","slug":"whitney-ross-barris-curtains-of-light","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/whitney-ross-barris-curtains-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitney Ross-Barris &#8211; Curtains of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something very old school pop-jazz\/singer-songwriter about the album Curtains of Light by Toronto&#8217;s Whitney Ross-Barris. The lady sprinkles her compositions with folk, soul, and of course jazz accents, which here remind us of some of Joni Mitchell&#8217;s best years, elsewhere Tammi Terrell, and often also some prodigy that Broadway let slip through its fingers.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bourgeois Reverie, the first single from my upcoming album Curtains of Light, is out today!! \ud83c\udf89\u2728\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/raU-RdzMj6U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whitney Ross-Barris&#8217;s constructions are swathed in generous arrangements with a profusion of keyboards, from piano to Hammond, brass, strings and choir. 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