Melissa Weikart Here, There 7/24/00 and Tony Williams (drums)

and Tony Williams (drums)

The title GÉNESIS signals a new beginning: a fresh chapter following an unprecedented streak of chart-topping singles

all were engineered by Baker Bigsby -- who oversaw the tape transfers here from the masters -- and represent a startling chapter in her musical legacy

Like all the Nucleus records

the debut from these five Orange County kids established the mid-tempo

Melissa Weikart Here, There 7/24/00 and Tony Williams (drums)There are countless intimate, fret noise filled records from singer guitarists across the history of modern popular music, but solo piano and voice releases remain a comparative rarity. It's hard to imagine an artist better equipped to contribute to this canon than France based singer, keyboardist, and composer Melissa Weikart. A conservatory trained classical pianist and improviser, Weikart's accompaniment on her debut album, Here, There, swells to