We first were aware of pianist/songbird Vanessa Carlton when she impressed us with her multi-platinum debut “Be Not Nobody”. Her top single “A Thousand Miles” and follow-up “Ordinary Day” convinced a lot of fans that being a “rocker chick with a band” wasn’t the only way to climb the pop charts.

Then, for a while, she seemed to disappear...

Now, after considering the direction she wants to take, the artist is back with “Harmonium”, an album recorded in L.A. and San Francisco over the last year. There must have been some harmonic music vibe happening because when Vanessa was in the L.A. studio, she hooked up with Stephan Jenkins and was surrounded by greats like Stevie Nicks, Pharrell Williams, Kanye West etc.