Showing posts with label Térez Montcalm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Térez Montcalm. Show all posts

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Terez Montcalm - Quand On S'Aime

Size: 117,4 MB
Time: 50:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz Vocals, Chanson
Art: Front

01. L'amour Est Comme Un Jour (3:39)
02. Black Trombone (4:46)
03. Quand On S'aime (2:59)
04. Chagrin D'amour (3:01)
05. Docteur (4:08)
06. La Belle Vie (3:32)
07. Les Yeux Ouverts (3:24)
08. Petite Fleur (3:16)
09. Le Temps S'arrête (4:17)
10. Que Veux Tu Que Je Te Dise (4:24)
11. Les Feuilles Mortes (4:30)
12. Juste Nous Deux (3:23)
13. Que Reste T'il De Nos Amours (4:36)

Exhibiting an extraordinarily strong voice from an early age, she attended music school as a teenager and ultimately made her full-length recording debut in 1994 with the album Risque on BMG. Sung primarily in French and comprised of original material as well as covers of Charles Aznavour, Tom Waits, and others, Risque was well received from a critical standpoint, and in the wake of it's release, Montcalm was awarded a Prix Rapsat-Lelièvre in 1995.

Térez Montcalm is a Canadian jazz singer and guitarist who broke through to international success in 2007. Born in Quebec, Canada, she grew up bilingually in a family where French and English were spoken interchangeably and where music was important. Her father, a native English speaker originally from Toronto, was a jazz fan who enjoyed Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Nat King Cole. The youngest of five children, she had brothers who were into Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa as well as sisters who were into the Beatles and Edith Piaf. In addition to these influences, Montcalm had favorites of her own, above all Eurythmics lead singer Annie Lennox. Exhibiting an extraordinarily strong voice from an early age, she attended music school as a teenager and ultimately made her full-length recording debut in 1994 with the album Risque on BMG. Sung primarily in French and comprised of original material as well as covers of Charles Aznavour, Tom Waits, and others, Risque was well received from a critical standpoint, and in the wake of its release, Montcalm was awarded a Prix Rapsat-Lelièvre in 1995. She released her follow-up album, Parle Pas Si Fort, on Universal in 1997 and subsequently retreated from the marketplace for a while, not releasing her third album, Térez Montcalm, until five years later in 2002. Montcalm changed direction on her fourth album, Voodoo, which arrived in 2006. Comprised almost entirely of cover songs, many of them well known (e.g., Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams"), and sung primarily in English rather than French, Voodoo was produced by former Uzeb jazz-rock guitarist Michel Cusson and released on the Universal subsidiary label GSI Musique. A year after its release, Voodoo broke into the French albums chart and remained there for a total of 30 weeks, going all the way to number 43. ~ Jason Birchmeier

Quand On S'Aime

Monday, August 17, 2015

Térez Montcalm - I Know I'll Be Alright

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:23
Size: 116,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:27)  1. Superwoman
(3:55)  2. If I Could Turn Around
(3:35)  3. Je reviens te chercher
(3:32)  4. Philadelphia
(4:31)  5. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
(3:59)  6. Lily
(4:42)  7. Honest To the Bones
(4:05)  8. Fling
(4:23)  9. If You Don't Know Me By Now
(3:33) 10. Chambre d'hôtel
(3:36) 11. I Could Have Told You
(3:39) 12. Tell It Like It Is
(3:19) 13. Ashes To Ashes

Térez Montcalm is a Canadian jazz singer and guitarist who broke through to international success in 2007. Born in Quebec, Canada, she grew up bilingually in a family where French and English were spoken interchangeably and where music was important. Her father, a native English speaker originally from Toronto, was a jazz fan who enjoyed Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Nat King Cole. The youngest of five children, she had brothers who were into Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa as well as sisters who were into the Beatles and Edith Piaf. In addition to these influences, Montcalm had favorites of her own, above all Eurythmics lead singer Annie Lennox. Exhibiting an extraordinarily strong voice from an early age, she attended music school as a teenager and ultimately made her full-length recording debut in 1994 with the album Risque on BMG. Sung primarily in French and comprised of original material as well as covers of Charles Aznavour, Tom Waits, and others, Risque was well received from a critical standpoint, and in the wake of its release, Montcalm was awarded a Prix Rapsat-Lelièvre in 1995. 

She released her follow-up album, Parle Pas Si Fort, on Universal in 1997 and subsequently retreated from the marketplace for a while, not releasing her third album, Térez Montcalm, until five years later in 2002. Montcalm changed direction on her fourth album, Voodoo, which arrived in 2006. Comprised almost entirely of cover songs, many of them well known (e.g., Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams"), and sung primarily in English rather than French, Voodoo was produced by former Uzeb jazz-rock guitarist Michel Cusson and released on the Universal subsidiary label GSI Musique. A year after its release, Voodoo broke into the French albums chart and remained there for a total of 30 weeks, going all the way to number 43. ~ Bio https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/terez-montcalm/id28719874#fullText

I Know I'll Be Alright

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Térez Montcalm - Here's To You: Songs For Shirley Horn

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:27
Size: 145.3 MB
Styles: jazz vocals
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[6:29] 1. Here's To Life
[4:40] 2. Nice'n'easy
[6:32] 3. If You Love Me
[4:21] 4. Rules Of The Road
[4:59] 5. A Song For You
[3:52] 6. The Great City
[8:09] 7. A Time For Love
[3:38] 8. Just In Time
[5:40] 9. One At A Time
[4:11] 10. How Am I To Know
[5:45] 11. Isn't It A Pity
[5:05] 12. You Won't Forget Me

Terez Montcalm is a French Canadian vocalist who is little known in the US. She performs mostly in Canada and France. She is primarily a jazz artist, who has a bit of a Janis Joplin like rock edge to her live performances. In this album she sets aside the guitar and concentrates purely on the slow and varied tempos of these Shirley Horn ballads near and dear to her. Her voice is absolutely unique and a pleasure to my ears. Her delivery on these songs is masterful. In an interview, she was once asked to what she attributes her unique vocal sound. She said most people's vocal cords are like spaghetti, but hers are thicker like fettuccine, thus giving her voice its deep, rich qualities. Why she isn't better known and appreciated is a mystery to me. ~Robert A. Jackson

Here's To You: Songs For Shirley Horn