Second Avenue is the second solo album from Lisa Moscatiello and was released in 2000..

Lisa Moscatiello's frequent collaborator Bev Stanton released an electronic deconstruction of Second Avenue in 2000 entitled Second Avenue Detour.

Awards

Second Avenue won the 2000 Album of the Year Wammie, as well as the Wammie for Best Recording in the Contemporary Folk category..

Release notes

"Lisa Moscatiello's rich and deep alto voice is the magical thread binding together Second Avenue. The shimmering arrangements featuring fiddle, bouzouki, and harp alongside acoustic, electric, and slide guitar reflect Lisa's background in Celtic music."

Reissue

In 2002 Second Avenue was reissued on the Machine Heart Music label with a different running order and two extra tracks - "Little Maggie" and "In the Here and Now".

Audio previews/downloads

Second Avenue can be previewed in its entirety on the Second Avenue StumbleAudio page..

Additionally, five tracks from Second Avenue can be previewed in their entirety or downloaded for free from the Lisa Moscatiello - CDs and MP3s page..

Notes

Artist/Band Information

Lisa Moscatiello is an American singer who is part of the Washington, DC area music scene. She is listed in Music Hound's Folk: Essential Album Guide, and is most often categorized as a folk vocalist. Moscatiello is, however, known for her versatility and range, and has appeared on stage singing the music of Scottish fiddler Johnny Cunningham in a production by the avant-garde theatre group Mabou Mines, and is featured on recordings by the Washington, DC-area electronica band, Arthur Loves Plastic.

A native of Arlington, Virginia, she attended Yale University from 1984 to 1988. She was actively involved in Yale's a cappella music community as a member of the group Redhot & Blue. She was a member of the British-style folk-rock band The New St. George from 1989 to 1994. She joined the New York-based Celtic-fusion band Whirligig in 1996, and performed with them through 2002, with appearances at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Newport Folk Festival, and Britain's Cropredy Festival.

In 2005, she formed her own jazz-folk hybrid band called The Space Dots, and recorded an album of "acid cabaret" songs with them called Trouble from the Start. Other recent projects of note include Jennifer Cutting's Ocean (2003) album featuring Maddy Prior and Gabriel Yacoub and Well Kept Secrets (2003) with fiddler Rosie Shipley.

She is an Italian American.

Discography

*Innocent When You Dream (1997)

*Second Avenue (2000)

*What Happens After Love (with Fred Lieder) (2002)

*Well Kept Secrets (with Rosie Shipley) (2003)

*Trouble from the Start (2005)

References

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