The Sara in the title is the poet Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), a writer who has also inspired Brad Mehldau. The singer, Aga Zaryan - one of Europe's finest jazz singers.

The Pole's style is a little in aesthetic terms like that of US singer Patricia Barber. A fixture on the Polish scene for the last 20 years, check out the beautiful 'Waiting the Moon' from Zaryan's 2010 album Looking, Walking, Being for instance. And the mood on the new record is part of that long considered sense of continuum.

Zaryan is here with guitarists Szymon Mika and David Dorůžka (also on that earlier album) in a very pared back setting the outcome of which is very ungeneric. Listen without any jazz framing if you like delving into its rootsy Americana base. I saw above a sea of hills/A solitary planet shine/And there was no one near or far/To keep the world from being mine from 'Autumn Dusk' is one of a constellation of shining moments here. Zaryan has amazingly clear diction and there is a weight and grace to her very rewarding approach.