The Finishing School

Allow Miss Sasha Bell (the essex green & the ladybug transistor) to guide you towards her destination. It will be a magical jaunt down a twisting back road, a sparkling path of mellow melodies, sweeping strings, pulsating pianos and flowing flutes. The journey is more important here than the ultimate arrival; it's the search for quiet corners and booming heights that make this record unique. Sasha Bell's Finishing School has created a very special album called "Destination Girl", and we invite you to accompany her as the road rolls on by.

As a self-described 'tutu wearing tomboy', Sasha took childhood lessons from the record collections of her older brothers, absorbing classic instruction from the Beatles, Rolling Stones, the Boss and Jackson Browne. Guidance from her father's here, Linda Ronstadt, was not ignored. After traversing high school on '80's New Wave, upstate New York classic rock radio and marching band standards, Sasha went on to audition for a Black Sabbath cover band in college. She did not make the cut, and her musical career would not begin until she began performing with Vermont's Guppyboy, the band that eventually became Essex Green. In 1997 she was recruited as a keyboardist for her friends' band The Ladybug Transistor. Sasha's involvement with both Essex Green and the Ladybugs remains constant.

Destination Girl is a picture perfect record of a complex and intelligent musical passage. Sasha's natural, easy charm glides through and through the rich, country-road tinged tracks. Old fashioned and simultaneously forward thinking. Destination Girl commences Sasha Bell's next class.

Destination Girl

1. reno
2. hair
3. destination girl
4. new sensation
5. day is over
6. silent space
7. rowen's theme
8. morning light
9. page 16