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Sunday night is here and I’m going out to catch a band, and today involves a further treat because I found Selena Cross. A young South Australian singer/songwriter and musician who currently lives in Sydney or Melbourne or somewhere else – it depends what you read. I’m thinking that I probably should have heard about her before but it is her current offerings that have caught my ear.

“My Old Man and the Sea” is a demo she has available on her MySpace. It was the first thing of hers that I had heard and I’m in love with this meticulously constructed song. It has everything going for it- a great tune, a beautifully recorded piano sound, warm irresistable vocals and that indefinable something that takes the song from the merely interesting to compelling.

With Paul Buckmaster-like string arrangements on “Silence” which was the single from her 2003 first release CD called “Strip” is a powerful and stylish pop track. Here it is as a video mashup of the song and video footage from the Final Fantasy anime.

From this same album also comes the video of the wistful title track called (ah who’d have guessed?) “Strip” featuring rapper Jr. P.

She has gone on to produce an offspring and then in 2006 she released “The Meaning in Sunnyville”. The EP is skillful and shows how versatile this performer is. Things appear to be pretty quite for this performer right now, but I’m hoping she is in a recording studio somewhere laying down some more material.

Find out more about her at www.selenacross.com. Recomended.