New Single 'Come By The Sea'

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Pankovits has initiated a new project that is planned to eventually grow into an album.
“In the Colors project I want to showcase the beauty of diversity in my life. Connecting the content to this idea, the lyrics will be poems by international poets—covering different continents. I would like to put out singles that we will connect visually and release a record with these songs once all the singles are out. Each song and poem will connect to a color theme.”

This track exists outside of genre boundaries, stripped to the essentials of music—lush harmonies, bountiful melodies, lithe rhythms—that of course relate to jazz but transcend it. Starting with Jon Cowherd's solo piano that feels like a gentle caress, it blossoms when Pankovits sings, joined by sensually resonant double bass by Carlos Henderson.
She has written lyrics (first and last verses) that frame an emotionally charged reading, in the middle, of an excerpt from the 1865 verse drama Chastelard by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). They are tinged with the poet’s trademark eroticism—not that there’s anything radio will have to censor; it’s a paean to longing crowned with realization, then recalled in a warm haze of memory.
Pankovits’ verses give it more permanency and a lot more optimism as she moves at the end from the sea to the sky in a hopeful ascent. Her music, always highly personal, reaches a new level of intimacy on “Come By the Sea.”