Madeleine Peyroux-Standing On The Rooftop-CD-FLAC-2011-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | Madeleine Peyroux
     Title   | Standing On The Rooftop
     Genre   | Jazz                                 Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 59:10
     Label   | Emarcy                               Store   | 2011
     Catalog | 0602527734668                        Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 755 kbps                             Size    | 338.08 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Martha My Dear                                              2:31
     02. The Kind You Can't Afford                                   3:58
     03. Leaving Home Again                                          3:35
     04. The Things I've Seen Today                                  3:44
     05. Fickle Dove                                                 3:27
     06. Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love                             3:22
     07. Standing On The Rooftop                                     5:46
     08. I Threw It All Away                                         3:15
     09. The Party Oughta Be Comin' Soon                             5:01
     10. Superhero                                                   3:21
     11. Love In Vain                                                3:39
     12. Don't Pick A Fight With A Poet                              4:27
     13. Meet Me In Rio                                              3:51
     14. Ophelia                                                     5:11
     15. The Way Of All Things                                       4:02
 Notes  
     With her dusky, lyrical style and affinity for reinterpreting classic jazz,
     blues, and folk standards, vocalist Madeleine Peyroux is a highly
     acclaimed, internationally recognized artist. Emerging in her teens as a
     street-busking performer in Paris' Latin Quarter in the 1980s, Peyroux drew
     favorable comparisons to legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday, and
     eventually caught the attention of the record industry. Her debut album,
     1996's Dreamland, featured a bevy of noted jazz artists and drew accolades
     for her distinctive take on blues and jazz standards.
     In 2009, Madeleine Peyroux issued Bare Bones, her first recording of
     all-original material with producer Larry Klein and a small group of jazz
     musicians and co-composers. Standing on the Rooftop is her debut recording
     for Decca with producer Craig Street. The group of players here is a
     diverse lot: drummer Charlie Drayton, guitarists Christopher Bruce and Marc
     Ribot, bassist Me'Shell Ndegeocello; John Kirby, Glenn Patscha, and Patrick
     Warren alternate on keyboards, percussionist Mauro Refosco, violinist Jenny
     Scheinman, and Allen Toussaint guests on piano.
     The program is richly and elegantly painted with modern production touches
     even as its songs are rooted in the historical past of classic Americana:
     pop songs, blues, jazz, and sitting room tunes. It includes eight originals
     and four covers, among them a poem by W.H. Auden set to music by Ribot
     entitled "Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love." The music is summery and
     laid-back. The languid parlor-room reading of "Martha My Dear" by Lennon &
     McCartney has a deliberate old-timey feel and twins well with "Fickle Dove"
     (one of two Peyroux tunes written with Scheinman).
     Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain," with its strange pump organ backdrop and
     studio echo, indulges the kinds of production tricks Tom Waits might employ
     in disguising a blues. That said, this song too has a twin of sorts in the
     sonically similar title track; a clattering rag blues with ambient
     electronics held in check by Peyroux's elegantly earthy vocal. Ribot's
     acoustic guitar and Toussaint's upright on the Auden poem give the singer a
     perfectly loose frame to create a song inside.
     The thin, lean, funky blues on "The Kind You Can't Afford" (co-written with
     former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman) and Bob Dylan's "I Threw It All Away" are
     both slow shuffles and high points. In the latter, Peyroux's voice shifts
     the lyric's meaning to where the implied bitterness gives way to
     bewilderment. The album's final three cuts, "Meet Me in Rio," "Ophelia,"
     and "The Way of All Things" make fine use of Peyroux's jazz chops; and
     because of Street's production, make an exact time-space continuum
     wonderfully imprecise.
     As an album, Standing on the Rooftop may not be as striking as its
     predecessor, but perhaps it wasn't meant to be. It is a seemingly effort
     that pushes the familiar toward an uncertain future where pop genres cease
     to need to exist at all.

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