Melanie De Biasio - Lilies

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:13
Size: 87.5 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:48] 1. Your Freedom Is The End Of Me
[3:16] 2. Gold Junkies
[3:57] 3. Lilies
[4:04] 4. Let Me Love You
[2:46] 5. Sitting In The Stairwell
[3:08] 6. Brother
[4:31] 7. Afro Blue
[6:41] 8. All My Worlds
[5:58] 9. And My Heart Goes On

Melanie De Biasio is a Belgian vocalist who mixes jazz, blues, and soul.

As Melanie De Biasio explains in her own words; “For me, Lilies has a darkness, but it’s also luminous. After my experiences with (previous releases) 'No Deal' and 'Blackened Cities', I just wanted to retreat to a cave with my Pro-Tools, my computer, and my cheap, 100Euro Shure SM-58 microphone. I could have gone to a big studio, made a big production – but I wanted none of that. I wanted to go back to the seed of creativity, the simplest materials. I was in this room where there was no light, no night or day at all, no heat. Very uncomfortable. But I felt free. I was happy to have this feeling – ‘I don’t need more, I have everything I need here.’”

Lilies resonates with beauty, multi-instrumentalist De Biasio casting a mesmerising shadow over the proceedings alongside her long-term ensemble of players and will undoubtedly once again see her further the acclaim of fans both in Europe and further afield.

Lilies mc
Lilies zippy

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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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