More of a track of yesterday than today. Silent Distance is the third track on her debut solo album Restless Times (which you can get on import from Amazon). Read more about it here or visit Clara’s website that has loads of piccies of all those who made the album possible.

Clara Hill’s debut effortlessly melds deep house, intelligent dance music, RnB and jazz into a suite of incredibly dazzling but soothing compositions. Silent Distance was the first track on the album that made me smile with the appreciation that this album is really something special. This is why I love music.

Restless Times will be in my list of albums of 2004. It will probably be Number One. Almost certainly actually.

Which brings me onto something else: I first heard this album in snippets from the iTunes Music Store. So I presume if it’s not available in the UK when the European iTunes Music Store goes live, it won’t be on iTunes then. Do we get a chance to find US-only tracks or will we get shoehorned into just the stuff available in Europe? In which case, we miss out on stuff that we wouldn’t otherwise hear about.