TORONTO - Singer-pianist Chantal Kreviazuk has just completed the recording of her sophomore album, "Colour Moving And Still", due for release in the late summer/early fall.

The album was produced by Jay Joyce (Patty Griffin, Tim Finn, The Wallflowers) at Phase One studios in Toronto; Kevin Killen (Jewel, U2) will begin mixing it next week in New York.

Like Kreviazuk's debut, "Under These Rocks And Stones" -- which has sold 225,000 copies in Canada -- the producer assembled players for the album, including drummer Matt Chamberlain, who performed on The Wallflowers' breakthrough album, "Bringing Down The Horse."

"It's a huge step forward from the last album," says Michael Roth, co-head of A&R at Sony Music Canada.

"It's just a great piece of work. She's really grown melodically. The songs are amazing. She wrote, I think, eight out of the 10 songs totally on her own."

Among the "notable" songs, says Roth, are "Before You", "Souls" and "Eve", the latter a striking ballad.

"She saw this show called 'All About Eve', not the famous old movie, but about a little girl who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion," says Roth.

"It was a brilliant documentary, and it moved her so much that she sat down and wrote this song, and it's a masterpiece."

Kreviazuk also has a song on the "Dawson's Creek" soundtrack, a cover of Randy Newman's "Feels Like Home", which won't appear on "Colour Moving And Still".

Karen Bliss