Kristeen Young with Larissa Dalle

As noted in an RFT cover story earlier this year [René Spencer Saller, "Glamour Girl," August 14], expat diva Kristeen Young (pictured) has had an active public life in 2002, most prominently as a guest singer and keyboardist on David Bowie's Heathen. That bit of good fortune came about thanks to Bowie's longtime producer Tony Visconti, who's been behind the board for a series of Young's recording sessions. Having harvested close to twenty cuts from those studio dates, Young and Visconti are shopping the songs to labels big and small, with hopes of a 2003 release. Though the exact makeup -- and even the title -- of the forthcoming album is still in flux, the tracks Young has collected so far indicate a confident, bolder approach to songwriting, with a hard-charging sound that's augmented by a crack backing band and Visconti's expert knob-twiddling. The fully fleshed demos have also led to several dates this fall in France and England, as well as lots of East Coast gigging.

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Though Young's weekly gigs at the famed New York club CBGB's have benefited from the power of her guitar-bass-and-drums cohorts, her St. Louis show on Monday night will showcase her in a mode familiar to her local fans from the mid-'90s: voice and keyboards only. For this date, she'll be joined by Larissa Dalle, who plays St. Louis stages on an intermittent basis herself these days. A frequent gigging partner of Young's in the middle and late '90s, Dalle has been playing an increasingly spare set of late, splashed with tinges of Americana with minimal, tasteful accompaniment.