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Melody Gardot: The Absence

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Label: Verve Records
Released: 2012.05.28
Time:
 57:51
Category: Jazz, Blues, Bossa Nova
Producer(s): Heitor Pereira
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.melodygardot.co.uk
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2016
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Mira (Melody Gardot) - 4:16
[2] Amalia (Phil Roy / Melody Gardot / Heitor Pereira) - 3:03
[3] So Long (Melody Gardot) - 3:50
[4] So We Meet Again My Heartache (Melody Gardot) - 4:32
[5] Lisboa (Melody Gardot) - 5:27
[6] Impossible Love (Melody Gardot) - 3:49
[7] If I Tell You I Love You (Melody Gardot) - 3:33
[8] Goodbye (Jesse Harris / Melody Gardot) - 3:38
[9] Se Você Me Ama (Melody Gardot / Heitor Pereira) - 4:56
[10] My Heart Won't Have It Any Other Way (Melody Gardot) - 2:34
[11] Iemanja [contains hidden track "Chegue Journeyman"] - 18:13

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Melody Gardot - Piano, Vocals

Heitor Pereira - Arrangements, Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Producer, Vocals
Coco Trivisonno - Bandoneon
Michael Valerio - Bass
Doug Webb - Slide Saxophone
Nico Abondolo - Bass
Paco Arroyo - Percussion
Yolanda Arroyo - Percussion
Paulinho Da Costa - Percussion
Ramon Flores - Trumpet
Peter Erskine - Drums
Larry Goldings - Melodica, Piano
Dan Higgins - Bass Clarinet, Alto Flute
Ron Kerber - Clarinet
Harry Kim - Trumpet
Christian Kollgaard - Bass
John Leftwich - Bass
Jim Keltner - Drums

Brian Dembrow - Viola
Andrew Duckles - Viola
Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick - Cello
Bruce Dukov - Violin
Stephen Erdody - Cello
Marlow Fisher - Viola
Matthew Funes - Viola
Julia Ann Gigante - Violin
Keith Greene - Viola
Tamara Hatwan - Violin
Paula Hochhalter - Cello
Dennis Karmazyn - Cello
Roland Kato - Viola
Armen Ksajikan - Cello
Phillip Levy - Violin
Andrew Lippman - Trombone
Darrin McCann - Viola
Serena McKinney - Violin
Helen Nightengale - Violin
Alyssa Park - Violin
Jessica Pearlman - Oboe
Katia Popov - Violin
Andrew Shulman - Cello
Christina Soule - Cello
Tereza Stanislav - Violin
Lisa Sutton - Violin
Sarah Thornblade - Violin
Martin Tillman - Cello
Cecilia Tsan - Cello
Jo Ann Turovsky - Harp
Dave Walther - Viola
Roger Wilkie - Violin
Nick Glennie-Smith - Conductor
Ladd McIntosh - Orchestration

Alfie Silas-Durio - Background Vocals
Bill Cantos - Background Vocals
Bill Maxwell - Background Vocals
Louis Price - Background Vocals
Phil Roy - Background Vocals
Tata Vega - Background Vocals
Ali Witherspoon - Background Vocals

Antonio "Moogie" Canazio - Engineer, Mixing
Sebastian Zuleta - Engineer
Al Schmitt - Mixing
Glenn Barratt - Assistant Engineer, Engineer
Jeremy Miller - Assistant Engineer
Vanessa Par - Assistant Engineer
Scott Smith - Assistant Engineer
Bernie Grundman - Mastering
Jovite De Leymarie - Artwork, Design
Fabrizio Ferri - Photography
Sam Feldman - Management
Mary Levitan - Management
Steve Macklam - Management
Marco Ruiz - Assistant
Steve Genewick - Assistant
Ivy Skoff - Contractor
Booker White - Copyist
Christopher Appleton - Hair Stylist
Roque Cozzette - Make-Up

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If Melody Gardot's 2009 sophomore effort, My One and Only Thrill, sustained the sultry, atmospheric vibe of her critically acclaimed 2006 debut, her 2012 follow-up, The Absence, is a bit of a creative departure for the vocalist. Apparently inspired by her world travels, and specifically by a trip that brought her to the desert around the city of Marrakech, the album moves her away from smoky, small-group jazz and into a bright, if still bedroom-eyed, rhythmically exotic sound. Produced by guitarist/composer Heitor Pereira, the album is a lush, somewhat orchestral album that finds Gardot delving into various Brazilian, Spanish, and African-influenced sounds -- including bits of samba, tango, bossa nova, and calypso -- that evince her global journey. However, rather than simply making a standards album, Gardot continues her all-original approach, offering up new literate and passionately delivered compositions that bring to mind the work of such similarly inclined artists as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Paul Simon, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, and others. Although there are a few name musicians who help add spice to Gardot's musical caravan here, including percussionist Paulinho Da Costa, drummer Peter Erskine, and bassist John Leftwich, primarily it is still Gardot's burnished and yearning vocal style that takes the helm on these tracks.

Matt Collar - All Music Guide



While so many of today’s retro-styled chanteuses look and sound the part when they’re singing, they often break the spell when talking (or, bless her, in Adele’s case, when laughing). But 27-year-old Melody Gardot doesn’t just deliver her smoky, speakeasy jazz like a vintage vixen – she also wisecracks like Lauren Bacall. “When people compare me to Norah Jones,” she once remarked, “I say that she wins Grammys and I act like one. I move slowly and I’m a bit of an old soul.” Referring to her trademark look she said, “Musicians are a bit strange and bizarre anyway, though, so the cane, glasses and moon boots are a bit of a hit.”

If you missed Gardot’s remarkable story when she released her debut, Worrisome Heart, in 2006, or the bestselling My One and Only Thrill in 2009, then here’s the quick version. She was knocked off of her bicycle when she was 19, suffered a broken pelvis and severe head and spinal injuries which have left her with memory problems, an unusual sense of time and a hypersensitivity to light. She had begun playing the piano in Philadelphia bars when she was 16 so one of her doctors suggested music therapy. She taught herself the guitar in hospital and – unable to tolerate the louder music she’d enjoyed before her accident – began writing quiet, jazzy songs.

Her sultry third album plays like a late-night, gipsy travelogue spiced with world music influences reflecting, we are told, “time spent in the deserts of Morocco, the tango bars of Buenos Aires, the beaches of Brazil and the streets of Lisboa”.

Produced by Brazilian composer and guitarist Heitor Pereira, and woven from wafts of intricately picked acoustic guitar, heat-hazy flutes and silky strings, it’s music that moves with the soft, supple drama of a flamenco dancer’s fan. Songs of wandering souls and aching hearts are embroidered with klezma clarinet, moody drifts of harmonica and castanet flourishes. Gardot’s dusky voice smoulders as it slinks and scats through the mix – never breaking a sweat but always in control as she sings in English, French and Portuguese.

Vocally, she’s closer to Madeleine Peyroux than to Norah Jones – she’s got the loner’s spirit of a wiley alley cat. Bird calls, church bells and backing vocals that sound like they’re drifting in from the next street add to the holiday mood, allowing the listener to fantasise about muzzy afternoons spent swaying in a hammock and late nights in pavement cafés. When you rouse yourself from Gardot’s dream, it can be hard to recall any individual song, but the reverie is beautiful.

Helen Brown - 25 May 2012
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2012 release, the third album from Grammy nominated singer/songwriter. Produced by Heitor Pereira, renowned for his work as a film composer and world-class session guitarist (Sting, Seal, Caetano Veloso), the Brazilian-born, US-based artist shared Melody's enthusiasm for driving off the beaten path of Western pop, jazz, blues and soul. And he was as adventurous as Melody when it came to inventive sonic ideas. From the deserts of Morocco to the streets of Lisboa, from the tango bars of Buenos Aires to the beaches of Brazil, The Absence captures the essence of each of these exotic locales, while at the same time remaining quintessentially Melody Gardot.

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The Absence is the third studio album by American jazz singer-songwriter Melody Gardot, released on May 29, 2012 by Verve Records and produced by Heitor Pereira. The same year, Gardot participated in an advertisement campaign for Piaget for which she recorded the song "La Vie En Rose". This song appeared in a French re-release of "The Absence" which also included a music video and the making of the same track. A four-song EP, The Absence EP, was first released as an iTunes exclusive on May 15, 2012, serving as a preview for the album. The EP debuted on the Top Jazz Albums at No. 8. The album itself was released two weeks later on May 29, 2012. It debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums, and No. 33 on Billboard 200, selling 10,000 copies for the opening week. The album has sold 51,000 copies in the US as of May 2015. The album was certified Platinum in France on November 14, 2012, signifying 100,000 copies sold.

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