Christina Gaudet “Rockforte“ (LP)

Rockforte is an outstanding release by Christina Gaudet, with Grammy considerations for best Rock album and song, and official Rock Album award from Clouzine International Music Awards + an Elite Music Awards nomination, just for starters. It’s Gaudet herself that makes a song, but the instrumentals call for it and match the energy around her voice adult contemporary Rock and Pop voice. The eight songs contained on Rockforte playout like a “Startrecking” trip across the “Skybridge” to greater places in the universe, so it follows a loose concept of that proportion, and the rest keeps the same tremendously rocking vibes.

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The Rockforte album kicks off with banger on the title cut “Rockforte” with Gaudet wasting no time getting to the entire point of the record, and the rest that follows is gravy. The title song is that good, but it doesn’t stop there by any means. “Fire In The Belly” keeps the same tempo, as it is another rocker with a lot of heart and soul exuded by Gaudet with snappy lyrics and sassy vocals. The first two tracks play in unison as if they’re two parts of one song, and the energy starts over from there and goes to faraway places.

“Hot Lover” shows just as much promise as the first two songs, but it breathes a fire all its own and really shows how passionate Gaudet’s voice gets in the heat of the lyrics. I like it as much as anything on Rockforte, because it comes with every ingrdient to be found in her music, and the music is also filled with cutting edges. But it just leads to the peak of the album with “Startrecking” presenting the first video, which is a cool little movie with airbuses and sky trams, which makes it an even better listening experience.

With the previous track being hard to follow, Gaudet cleverly changes to speed on “Heart Be A Healer” with a lovely ballad with a huge, repeated title chorus to back it, and it provides a chilling moment for the ears between the other seven tracks, delivered with world class appeal and some smoking guitar parts. And “Sterling” is a much more intense ballad once it gets beyond the buildup and Gaudet sings like a bird of paradise. This is also one of the highlights of the album, with Gaudet in finest form on the Rockforte album, which continues with two more great song.

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“Skybridge” is another high point of the collection, with another video that seems to accompany the previous video, serving up another win for Gaudet on this exceptionally good batch of songs. The vibes keep going and won’t seem to quit, but as the album comes to an end, it shows all “Possibilities” are open and Gaudet’s music can go anywhere in the universe, as this album not only proves, it leaves you wanting more from Gaudet, a pure songwriter and performer with the music and film background to prove it. The Rockforte just paves the way for more where Gaudet comes from.

Mark Druery