Reviews

Zoë Schwarz has been a big name on the blues scene for a few years now, with her live performances particularly lauded by fans and the press. Now with her band, Blue Commotion comes an album that should lift all of them to the heights they deserve. The band got together in...

There’s plenty of ZSBC’s distinctive sound on this their fifth studio album, from the barrelling playful ‘Please Don’t Cheat On Me’ and the bustling ‘My Handsome Man’, to the melodramatic Animals-meet-Shirley Bassey blues of the title track, the smoky vibe of ‘Don’t Worry...

For the new album the band chose to record at Superfly studios in Nottinghamshire,

[Rob] “I’ve heard several of Wayne Proctor’s productions and it’s always a very slick sound: it was a case of wanting to get a different slant, on the mixing particularly. We produced ourselves,...

“Please Don’t Cheat On Me” is a dynamic, catchy opener reflecting the party spirit, although Zoë’s edgy tone suggests more of a threat than a request, the searing guitar and organ solos providing this affirmation. The next indication that this is going to be a very special album comes...

... Zoë Schwarz Blue Commotion’s The Blues And I Should Have A Party (their fifth studio outing in six years) has plenty of the band’s instantly recognisable polished sound, from the barrelling playful opener Please Don’t Cheat On Me and the bustling My Handsome Man, to the melodramatic...

‘The Blues And I Should Have A Party’ is as much a thematic statement of the band’s musical intent – let alone history – as it is a specific title track about a troubled relationship.

Thus: “The blues & I’ve been friends for so long, We might as well start a...

The Blues and I Should Have a Party
One of the real joys of producing a publication month after month, year after year, is that you get to hear bands grow and develop as they wend ther own path to their musical Nirvana.
Such a band has been Zoe Schwarz’ Blue...

"Bournemouth’s long-legged blues belle ZOE SCHWARZ and her Blues Commotion play adult-contemporary showroom blues with power and feeling. Composition such as the evolving “Angel Of Mercy” have that a Bramlett feel to them. Her set was lush and smooth, with polished rhythms and...

"We have featured Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion in various formats over the years, now there's a singer!  What a great combination they make with guitarist Rob Koral's melodic playing and Zoe's sweet but powerful voice."

Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion came to the Bottleneck on a nice warm September evening to sing some of her own songs and some covers and made it even warmer: can that lady sing!

from the minute that she and her fine band got on the stage they gave a hundred percent and then some, whether...

Zoe Schwarz and her band, the Blue Commotion, have been making a name for themselves in their native England for the better part of this decade. With five albums to their credit, the band and singer have firmly established themselves as a progressive and provocative 21st Century blues band....

Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion have delivered an accomplished fourth studio album of polished, mellow blues, with a few feisty and eclectic edges.

A captivating vocalist out front of a watertight musical trio – guitarist and co-songwriter Rob Koral, drummer Paul Robinson (a forty-year...

Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion aren’t just one of the most stylistically original bands currently on the British blues scene, they are one of the most prolific.

With the release of latest album This is the Life I Choose the band have delivered not just four diversified yet musically...

Google translation:   The story of this band begins, in fact, in February 2012, and since then, until the release of this album "This Is The Life I Choose", the band publishes three albums and this last, fourth studio. Without any doubt, it is very important to move better in all segments...

Zoë Schwarz Blue Commotion has certainly been keeping busy, and earlier this year they released their fifth album in the last four years: This is the life I choose, a keen follow-up to their fantastic live release, I’ll Be Your Tonight. If you had the chance to listen to that CD you already...