Clara Hill's sophomore effort "All I Can Provide" combines a wide range of styles, from soul jazz and disco groove to jazz ballads and some really nice deep house vibes. The press sheet states "it's a bit like listening to a excellent mix tape, with Clara's splendid voice as the mastress of ceremony" and that pretty well sums it up, but it doesn't tell you everything you need to know. Collaboration with talents like Atjazz, Vikter Duplaix, Georg Levin, and King Britt are just a few reasons to lend Ms. Hill your ears.

1. What For (Clara meets Meitz)
2. Nowhere (I Can Go)(Clara meets Atjazz)
3. Endlessly (Clara meets Sandboy)
4. Wake Up
5. Hard To Say (Clara meets Slope)
6. Paper Chase (Clara meets Vikter Duplaix)
7. Just Paradise (Clara meets Georg Levin)
8. Just Let Me Know (Clara meets Tonee and Slope)
9. Run (Clara meets Meitz)
10. Did I Do Wrong (Clara meets King Britt)
11. 21 June 2005

Most of the time Clara Hill's songs stand at the edge of the dance floor, too jumping to stay in their seat but not ecstatic enough to cross the line. The most prevalent elements you'll feel in her music are warmth and love. It's true. Clara's deep appreciation of music really comes through in her singing and in the sounds chosen for the music.

When it starts off, the first handful of songs are slow tempo, soul jazz ballads. At the midpoint with "Hard To Say" things move into a nice mid-tempo groove and from there, moods fluctuate from mid-tempo deep house and jazz grooves to smooth downtempo. All I Can Provide is a heavily vocal album that has a very mature sound in its song and vocal writing. On the dance floor or in a quiet room these songs reverberate with a sweet, sweet warmth.

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