Pauline London - Under The Rainbow

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:28
Size: 114,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:10)  1. In Black & White
(3:37)  2. Colors
(4:07)  3. Walkin On The Sand
(3:57)  4. I Still Miss You
(4:11)  5. Amor Para Sonhar
(4:31)  6. The Shadow Of Your Smile
(3:18)  7. Meu Amor Meu Coracao
(3:14)  8. Breakout
(3:14)  9. Moment Of Magic
(3:50) 10. Peace Is The Only Way
(3:28) 11. Change Partners
(3:56) 12. So I
(3:48) 13. Senza Fine

After the important international appraisal which resulted from her first album “Quiet Skies” (2004) Pauline is back with a new cd which tastes like Jazz, Nu-Jazz, Latin-Jazz with hints of authorial pop. Whereas the mentioned first album had an electronic-jazz stamp to it, “Under the Rainbow” represents an evolution towards more acoustic and orchestral sounds. The title of this works calls to one’s mind the famous standard, finding continuity between the important traditional Northern American music and her own personal stroke in composing and interpretation. Staying “under” the rainbow is a way of being in present times, here and now, enjoying the inspirations and creativity this multi-coloured spectrum can offer to us. Thanks to the rainbow we can find once more shades of light after a darker hour, we may regain life blood. This work hence represents continuity with the “musical colours” of “Quiet Skies”, but makes them turn out more maturely and homogeneously. A refined combination of acoustic and digital instruments are the central thread of this album. The whole of it is cleverly constructed by the arrangements here more essential and there cunningly architected  inspired by great Italian maestri Morricone, Trovaioli, Piccioni. This parcours is characterized by Pauline’s voice, which moves with adaptability from samba / bossa-nova inspirated atmospheres, towards more introspective and rarefied moments, passing by pop rock accents and sounds. The album’s thirteen songs unwind offering us original compositions, interpretation of a few standards and pop covers. Amongst unpublished pieces one catches sight of I still miss you with a latin-jazz taste, nostalgic tone, and its constant pitch modulating crescendo.Colors, bright and solar, towards an absorbing and dynamic up-tempo, recalls through composition and lyrics the feeling beheld by the album’s title, the rainbow inside and outside ourselves.”Amor para sonhar” owns the vivid mood of samba with bilingual portuguese and english lyrics. In Black and White represents a more introspective moment marked by an electro-swing style.”Walking on the sand” retro beat. “Meu amor meu curacao” is pure soft samba with a singing chorus to it. So I is an episode with a pushful rock impulse to it, recalling the tradition of Northern American songwriters. 

Peace (is the only way) this song also has a poppy essence to it, but with deep contents. It claims peace, as mentioned in the title, to be the only way. Moment of magic- soft rocking acoustic pace of rythm and strings. Pauline offers a tribute to authors and artists which are part of her background by choosing four “classical” songs each of their own kind. The famous The Shadow of your smile with orchestral interventions in Ennio Morricone’s style, Change Partner a piece in Brasilian style made famous by Sinatra, enriched here by the polyphonic arrangement of 4 guitars. Breakout, a song written by the “Swing Out Sister” which comes from the Anglosaxon 80s pop panorama, is revisited in a latin-samba key which keeps your feet moving. Senza Fine, an emblematic title, both for its last position in the track list, recalling a kind of ciclicity, continuity between an end and a new beginning, and for its celebrity in Italian traditional music. This three quarters is redone as a sophisticated nu-jazz standard Pauline London, singer, songwriter and composer, started performing live at the beginning of the 90s in numerous Italian and European jazz-clubs and festivals. Her versatility brings her to mix efficaciously different styles and sounds. She moves with ease amongst classic and modern standard jazz, proposes pop songs rearranged according to jazz style, and finally composes her original tracks which mix jazz, nu-jazz, latin-jazz, pop and rock suggestions together. Her influences cross from Latin American music through great jazz singers like Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Mel Tormé, Dianne Reeves, to reach refined and elegant pop such as that of artists like Sade, Seal, Noa, and nu-bossa tendencies similar to Bebel Gilberto. She is also a vocal improviser who reaps from traditional scat singing enriching it with phrasings which come from ethnic, rock and pop music. Her constant research and curiosity on different aspects of vocality also brings her to study extra-European musical systems (particularly, singing in Nothern India and Karnataka singing) as well as Italian popular music. Her first solo album is produced by Funky Juice Records in 2004. The “Quiet Skies” cd meets great appraisal at an international level and is licensed to Sony Columbia Japan. In 2008 she’s a guest at Nu Note Lounge Fest in Moscow. Pauline has worked with many different artists as songwriter and performer. In 2002 her voice features in Barrio Jazz Gang’s “Spectrum” CD, released in different European and extra- European countries among which Australia and Japan. In 2004 she is a guest vocalist on “My favorite Beats” album by Dynamic Four.In 2009 her voice features on some of the tracks of Barrio Jazz Gang’s new album “vol. 2” as well as her lyrics. https://www.funkyjuice.com/en/products/pauline-london-under-the-rainbow/

Under The Rainbow

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Pauline London - Quiet Skies

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:16
Size: 153,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:29)  1. Love Can Sing
(5:17)  2. Stay By My Side
(5:59)  3. Out Of The Winter
(4:02)  4. Sing A Lullaby
(5:52)  5. Fly In The Sky
(5:08)  6. Vibração
(4:45)  7. Bubbles
(5:05)  8. Dance The Life
(5:37)  9. Maybe Yesterday
(4:05) 10. Talkin' To The Moon
(4:39) 11. In Your Eyes
(5:39) 12. Fly In The Sky - Barrio Jazz Gang Remix
(5:34) 13. Maybe Yesterday - Barrio Jazz Gang Remix

Here is the new soloist project of Pauline London, singer, composer and lyricist, whose music is crossed by suggestions jazz, lounge, NuJazz, combined together from an incisive and rarefied vocal style at the same time. Been born as jazz-singer Pauline moves with boldness toward the new electronic scene, succeeding to mix with effectiveness tunes from the taste jazzy to the new bossa sonorities. She participates in the last years in various record projects among which Barrio Jazz Gang as vocalist and author.This is the debut album that reveales a mix of refined and evocative sound, following the succes obtained for the vocal perfomance on the famous LINDA CANCAO track. She is able to capture the listener with its hypnotic taste, both reflexive and sunny, supported by excellent arrangements that now conducts toward a sort of cool-jazz now toward the warm territories of the bossa-nova. She spended a long time singing and studying all the great singers such as Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Carmen Mc Rae, Shirley Bassey on the jazz blues side. Also she a great interpreter of Elis Regina and Astrud Gilberto tracks. The cd is opened with the wonderful deep and intense soulful track “Love can sing“ where she really give us true emotions. “Stay by my side” starts with a quality broken beat programming on pad of orchestra’s s strings while the sweet melody grown in a magic fields. Listen here to her scat jazz vocals and solo. On the third track “ Out on winter “ she is with Paul Innarella that plays the soprano-sax and together they give us a little jewel for that winter days where we all whispering the sunny times………..as a free seagull ! An intimate jazz-guitar break before Pauline closing the track with her tipycal vocalizing, give us a moment of pure visionary pleasure. “Sing a lullaby” is a latin–dancefloor track with a great hook and superb electronic treatments. Her vocals are floating in an atmosphere of a very happy party mood, can be in Rio, Havana, L.A. or in a beach club in the warmth of a tropical summer. The guitar is making a very strong riff that for sure will remain in your mind for long. In the well know track “ Fly in the sky “ Pauline sings in her own inimitable way and remind us the days of Shirley Bassey in English ‘60’ spy movies. Huge heart, great inspiration and expertly crafted.

“Vibraçao “ with his bubbling bass line and acoustic guitars played by Steve take us in an intense brazilian landscape atmosphere, where the exciting flute patterns floats……strong sense of a greater wider vision. Don’t be fooled by the title this 7 track ” Bubbles” is an inspiring glimpse of dark jazz on a sexy voice in the setting of lush. Vibraphone and brass characterized the sound and the mood giving that special jazzy feeling. “Dance the life” is an irresistible down tempo soul track with hammond, acoustic guitar and percussion and again the soprano-sax that duet wih Pauline in the warmest moment of the all cd. “My be yesterday” starts with with a rimshot solid-groove where the eletric guitar riff gives to the rhythm that special ’70’s funky sound. The bassline is circular and also very fat, her voice as usual goes from soul to pop melodies to fantastic scat–beats. Her multi-recording vocals will for sure amaze you. Also featuring Paul on a flute. “Talking to the moon “ is a night ballad with a sad feeling but big hope a love. She said: “…Quiet vision of the night you break the dark of this long long night……….I’m returning to the dreamland………..” These few words exactly catch the meaning of her creative expression of love and feeling to the music that reflects her lifestyle. “In your eyes” is a rhythmic chill-out song that sudddenly slides in a pop-mood sound and create new way to make modern music with a new approach but still maintaining a foot in the tradition. The percussion grooves and the rhythms of the guitars sweep away together with the flute and the strings arrangements. ………Rain or shine I don’t mind ‘cause I’ve got you into my life………………….The first “Barrio Jazz Gang” remix of the “ Fly in the sky “ track start with one of their best jazz broken beat, that is the trademark of their sound. The bassline is very solid and fat while the electric piano chords harmonizes soflty on her beautiful vocals. The bongoes rhythms running fast under the groove and the brass and guitar shots construct a cinematic atmosphere. In the break the snare-drill and the electronic filtering are exalting her magic singing. “My be yesterday” is another “Barrio Jazz Gang” remix exquisitely designed for club jazz dancefloor. The initial Pauline scat and the hammond shots are taking us as usual into a retro-modern atmosphere where she brings the warmth of her voice, filtered and treated with deep knowledge of the electronic machines use. She says : “ Night was made just for us, now it’s easy to believe it………..close your eyes and let you see…………………. “https://www.funkyjuice.com/en/products/pauline-london-quiet-skies/

Quiet Skies

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