Thursday, June 12, 2014

Melanie De Biasio - No Deal

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 33:05
Size: 75.8 MB
Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[1:41] 1. I Feel You
[5:15] 2. The Flow
[4:02] 3. No Deal
[2:48] 4. With Love
[6:33] 5. Sweet Darling Pain
[4:22] 6. I'm Gonna Leave You
[8:21] 7. With All My Love

Among the buzzing cyber hive and unrelenting pace of modern life, there is a special place for albums that suspend time. Melanie de Biasio's first album in six years is seven songs of dark, transcendent music. Although deeply entrenched in jazz (she is a classically trained flautist and singer), No Deal's atmosphere lurks in the same place as This Mortal Coil's Lynchian glow, Portishead's sinister authority and Mark Hollis of Talk Talk's smoky self-titled solo album. Revered by many in her native country as the Belgian Billie Holiday, she defies this comparison to iconic jazz singers on her cover of Nina Simone's I'm Gonna Leave You – a track Biasio reimagines brilliantly with the neat, clipped enunciation of her bruised yet burly vocals. As the final patters of the album's send-off, With All My Love, dissolve into the ether, the eerie silence that's left is dizzying. ~Harriet Gibsone

No Deal

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