This album is the result of a live recording at Le Soir Mystique - a late night supper club held monthly at the Mittagong Playhouse in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. This recording captured an intimate evening of acoustic music by Ben Mackenzie (guitar, lead vocals and harmonica), Simone Olding (vocals, flute, bazooka and various percussion), and Louise Bell (piano and harp).

Ben’s songs are layered with emotion, heartfelt, but pure in delivery, and pervade an honest longing of spirit and love without sentimentality. Universal themes intertwine with scattered pieces of wisdom and inspiration, but held in reality by the meeting of one’s own journey and all its paradoxes.

The combination of instruments and the talent of Lousie Bell (multi instrumentalist including harp and clarinet, as well as a piano teacher and singer/songwriter), and Simone Olding, multi instrumentalist (including flute, recorders of every description, bazooka and various percussion), singer/songwriter and well known in the Australian / Irish music scene – several albums, make this album a unique, atmospheric journey of longing, heart and spirit.

With 10 tracks of music, $25.00 is fantastic value.

"Ben Mackenzie paints a captivating picture of the beauty of human emotion with his words, coloured by a rich range of instruments and vocals. This music speaks to me of a man with uncommon sensitivity and an incredible ability to craft words into an expression of the human experience. The result is an album with enduring appeal."
          Reviewer