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Changing Lights 180gr 2LP

Stacey Kent - vocal

Side 1
This Happy Madness
The Summer We Crossed Europe In The Rain
One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So)

Side 2
Mais Uma Vez
Waiter, Oh Waiter
O Barquinho

Side 3
The Changing Lights
How Insensitive
O Bebado E A Equilibrista/ Smile

Side 4
Like A River
The Face I Love
A Tarde
Chanson Legere


Stacey Kent's latest album, The Changing Lights,
again demonstrates her vocal mastery. The
immaculate intonation, timing and diction are
flawless to the point of sheer purity. Her voice
becomes an instrument with impeccable clarity and
minimal vibrato.

The album's musical focus is Brazilian, mixing
classics with originals, while switching smoothly
between English, Portuguese and French.

There are covers of Bossa Nova numbers from Tom
Jobim, Roberto Menescal, Marcos Valle and others.
Highlights include Jobim's 'How Insensitive,'
which is quietly and intensely melancholic, while
the Jobim classic, 'One Note Samba,' is given a
cheeky up-tempo treatment. It is a difficult
number to handle at such pace with the
short-spaced, almost staccato notes. Stacey
effortlessly takes the scale runs in her stride.
Roberto Menescal's 'O Barquinho' is given a fresh
arrangement and is performed by the composer
himself on guitar.

Six originals by Jim Tomlinson make up the rest of
the album, three written with novelist and
lyricist, Kazuo Ishiguro; the sublime title song,
The Changing Lights, The Summer We Crossed Europe
in the Rain, a story gracefully sung by Ms Kent
and Waiter, Oh Waiter, a neat and jaunty request
for help in choosing from a French menu. Two songs
in Portuguese, Mais Uma Vez and A Tarde, written
with poet, Antonio Ladeira, and Chanson Lége`re,
written with Bernie Beaupe`re, who penned the
title track to Stacey's Raconte-Moi, add yet more
flavours to the album.

The arrangements and accompaniment of producer and
husband, Jim Tomlinson are outstanding. The
rhythm section is wonderfully subtle with praise
for the percussionists, Josh Morrison and Matt
Home, pianist Graham Harvey, bassist, Jeremy Brown
and the guitarists, Roberto Menescal and John
Parricelli. However, The Changing Lights is Stacey
Kent's record first and foremost; impressive and
top class.

Explaining his and Stacey's musical process,
Tomlinson elaborates on Kazuo Ishiguro's thoughts
in his liner note of Stacey's 2001 Candid album,
In Love Again. 'Stacey's style reminds me of the
best film actors who, on camera, develop a very
different style to that of stage actors who are
required to project their voices and gestures in
order to express themselves across the space of
the theatre. In film, an actor can do a lot with
very little, whether in terms of expression,
gesture, inflection or tone of voice. With Stacey,
I believe that we create music in the same way,
where even the smallest gestures have great
emotional significance.'

Highly recommended.

Kat.č.: PP 17529  (LP - audiofilský vinyl), Pure Pleasure , cena: 1249.00 Kč, EAN: skladem: 0ks, expedujeme do 2-40 dnů