Sophie Chassée • Lesson Learned

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Sophie Chassée displays impressive modern fingerstyle technique and has a voice that gets under your skin. She has been attracting attention in the scene for some time now. It was high time she released her latest album with Acoustic Music.

Sophie Chassée's percussive yet melodic guitar performance has a forcible and stirring clarity and virtuosity. The tapestry of delicately and richly nuanced sounds she weaves on her Lakewood serve as a backdrop upon which her beautiful and extraordinary voice unfolds at times with power and intensity, and at other times gently and vulnerably. There’s no kitsch or pathos here, but rather melancholy and always great depth. Sophie Chassée paints verbal pictures in her English-language songs and tells tales of friendship and love, transformation and farewells. The cherry on top are the discreet basslines, percussion, vocals and sensitive pad and electric guitar lines, which she recorded herself. Lesson learned – and how!