DIGGING UP A LOST RECORDING OF LEIGH-CHANTELLE KOCH, THE SEDUCTIVE VEGAN DIVA OF LOGAN CITY, AUSTRALIA

If I didn't think this girl was a damn good singer then I wouldn't be too bothered to write this, although she seems to be quite happy now living a different life away from music.

Leigh-Chantelle Koch, who is now better known around Australia as being a passionate leader of the vegan movement who dedicates all her time to spreading the gospel of animal liberation and her opposition to the farming of animals for human consumption on behalf of the vegan movement at large, is definitely a better singer than most of them who get on Australian Idol and a better singer than even she believes she is, if her exit from the music scene before her career ever even began is any indication. 

Through the grapevine, I did know Leigh-Chantelle before I ever knew about her involvement in the vegan movement, she worked down at JB Hi-Fi where I use to buy my CD's and coincidently we did get to know each other personally a little bit. 

When I offered to help out Leigh-Chantelle with leaflets a couple of years ago for her Green Earth Day advertising, she gave me a mini CD she had recorded with a guitarist named Doug De Jong.

It's an EP containing five acoustic songs. In quite amateurish style, the CD is titled WHAT REMAINS, it is really home made looking, the CD package is plain white cardboard with a black and white photocopied photo of her and De Jong on the front, it doesn't get any more primitive, the CD itself is just a burned disc. 

But as they say, don't judge a book by its cover, Leigh-Chantelle sings good enough to turn her own ordinary lyrics into very soulful renditions which certainly are better than just decent, her pitch is not altogether unlike Pat Benatar and Madonna, albeit not so impacting.