Late Spring last year I dicovered her, for which I am The Ditty Bops deeply thankful. Jesca was listed as one of their friends on their myspace page, any Ditty Bops friend can be a friend of mine I thought. So I went to read, listen, and watch what was on Jesca’s myspace page, and I liked it, I adored it, and I still love it. Especially her video for the song Big Fish gave me a really pleasant feeling, I was in love! So I went on a quest to download her beautiful music, which was hard, because there was to that date no official releases from her. Eventually Soulseek popped up some downloads from a radio-session, known as the KCRW morning becomes eclectic session, and from another website I got a number of live songs. Now I could survive until her debut album Kismet would be released in September that same year.
Though what did I do when Kismet was released in the States? Nothing! I didn’t download it nor did I order it. She was too dear to me to download it from Soulseek and she had some fierce competition from other beautiful artists those months after the release of Kismet. Yesterday though Jesca surprised me, I found Kismet in a record store in Utrecht. I was surprised because I thought she had only released Kismet in the US, but a closer look showed this was a European release. Well what else could I do besides buying the record, well of course there were a lot of other records there which I still want to buy, but Jesca’s surprise was too big to ignore so I finally have Kismet in my possession. Big Fish, the song that made me fall in love with her music isn’t on it, but that doesn’t mean I can’t show it you right here.

And as an extra treat I’ve added the video of her single Money to this post too!