Jess Ribeiro’s new album “Summer of Love”, traverses isolation, loss, tiny snatches of love, expectation versus reality, once-in-a-century pandemics and healing. She recorded the album with Nick Huggins on Wautharong Country in Point Lonsdale, with special guests Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White,) on drums, Darcy McNulty on saxophone, folk-diviner Leah Senior on keys, James Seymour on bass, Davie Mudie taking percussion duties, Carrie Webster’s violin and viola, and Huggins himself chipping in on bass, tape and drum loops, synth, guitars and piano. The way in which the album came together with her collaborators - separately, but towards the same north star - is where the beauty in the work is experienced. “It was improvised and experimental, musicians could only visit one at a time due to the lockdown restrictions, half of the musicians never even came to the studio”. Out on Poison City Records (Australia) and Labelman (Europe/UK & North America).