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Dreamland by: Madeleine Peyroux List Price: £7.99 CD-Charts Price: £5.48 You Save: £2.51 (31%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075678294624 Label: Atlantic Manufacturer: Atlantic Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Atlantic Release Date: April 04, 2005 Studio: Atlantic Sales Rank: 1389 MPN: 82946 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - Amazing debut album from Madeleine PeyrouxI have all three of Madeleine Peyroux's albums now having recently purchased this beauty. All through the album, you can tell the quality and the feeling in her vocal performance. I find it difficult to believe now that it took 8 years before Madeleine Peyroux became a household name with her second album "Careless Love" and not this one. Never mind. This is still a wonderful album. This album is a launching pad for Madeleine Peyroux to launch from. Her singing style is very similar to that of Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith, the jazz and blues divas of their time. It hits off with "Walking After Midnight" and finishes off with a blues-fuelled "Lovesick Blues". The tracks inbetween are also of distinction including "Dreamland", ... Read More: Rating:  - Strange choice first trackSometimes classic songs should be left well alone. While Madeleine Peyroux's rendition of Walkin' After Midnight, is a perfectly well executed rendition of the Patsy Cline hit, my feeling is that it is too much Patsy Cline's, to be comfortably covered by another vocalist. Apart from which it's out of place on this album. As it happens I prefer this version of La Vie En Rose to the original performed by Edith Piaf. Aprt from the strange choice of opening track this is an enjoyable (if somewhat mawkish) selection of songs which are almost flawlessly performed. There's a lot to like. If you are a fan of Madeleine Peyroux you won't want to miss it. Rating: - An outstanding debut albumThis is unquestionably the best debut album I have ever heard, and I have been collecting records for over forty years. Yes, Madeleine's voice is reminiscent of Billie Holiday, and it is apparent that she has been listening to Bessie Smith and the great blues divas, but she has a shining talent of her own. Listen to her version of Edith Piaf's 'La Vie en Rose' - others have tended to copy 'the Little Sparrow', but Madeleine gives it new life. I have her second album, and it is not quite as good as her first, but that is no condemnation. I look forward to her third! Rating: - Excellent albumListening to this album it is hard to believe this isn't one of the great black female Jazz artists from the 30's or 40's. Madeleine Peyroux has a voice very reminiscent of Billie Holliday yet uniquely her own. She delivers her songs with a style and maturity way beyond her years; she was a mere 22 years old when she recorded this. As well as covering some well-known numbers Ms Peyroux performs some of her own songs proving she is as talented a songwriter as she is a singer. There isn't a track on this album that isn't flawlessly performed but particularly outstanding are 'La Vie En Rose' and 'A Prayer'. This is an album that you want to listen to with the lights low and curled up in a comfy chair.... bliss. Rating: - LIKE BILLIEStunning This singer does not copy Billie, she sounds like her, and can take a blues number and swing it, a true jazz singer! She also gives an authentic thirties style to this album Amazing its as if she is streamlining Billie ! |
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