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MADELEINE PEYROUX - STANDING ON THE ROOFTOP (2LP)Price: $29.99Category: Music, Vinyl, Standard Vinyl. SKU: LDP0938 Availability: * All specified ship dates are estimates |
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Madeleine Peyroux Standing On The Rooftop on 2LP
Audiophile Favorite Jazz-Pop Chanteuse's 2011 Set Expands Into Rootsier, Slightly Edgier Styles
Acclaimed Guitarist Marc Ribot, Bassist Me'shell Ndgeocello Join Peyroux in Her Pursuit of Organic Beauty
Producer Craig Street (Norah Jones, K.D. Lang) Turns In Terrific Arrangements and Close-Up Sound
Madeleine Peyroux's audiophile credentials speak for themselves. Yet she continues to separate herself from sonics-minded contemporaries due to her unrivaled songcraft, delicate phrasing, and rich, conviction-filled singing. Helmed by noted producer Craig Street (Norah Jones, K.D. Lang, Cassandra Wilson) and featuring Marc Ribot on guitar/banjo along with Me'shell Ndegeocello on bass, Standing On The Rooftop signals a new, slightly edgier approach for the acclaimed vocalist as she carries her jazz sensibilities into rootsier territory. Credit goes to the singer's diverse abilities as well as her pairing with inimitable musicians Marc Ribot (guitar) and Me'shell Ndgeocello (bass). In addition to the Peyroux/Scheinman original, "The Things I've Seen Today," which finds Peyroux exploring American roots music with a delicate touch and haunting resonance, Standing On the Roof also includes a gorgeously melancholic folk rendition of The Beatles' "Martha, My Dear," among other standouts. Peyroux's 2004 album Careless Love was a major breakthrough, reaching Gold status in the U.S., selling over two million copies worldwide and landing on numerous top-of-the-year lists. Known as a gifted interpreter of material from the jazz canon to Bob Dylan, with her last album, 2009's Bare Bones, Peyroux found her voice as a songwriter. The New York Times noted that Peyroux "has branched out to refine an enigmatic, low-key personal style that is all her own." "Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, the two-LP, 33RPM set offers sound on par with Peyroux’s last two Mobile Fidelity LPs. Surfaces are exceptionally quiet, complementing her voice perfectly and allowing Ribot’s reverb-laden guitar to stretch out to infinity. Ndegeocello’s bass is full of rich overtones that perfectly translate, and infrequent bursts of percussion emerge across a very wide soundstage." --Jeff Dorgay, TONE Audio, Issue 39 "Here their playing creates some valuable tension beneath Peyroux’s still-placid singing, as in the title track, where Ribot’s nagging electric-guitar riff seems to be hurrying (or trying to hurry) the vocal along. Even better is “The Kind You Can’t Afford,” which Peyroux co-wrote with Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones. As the singer glides over Ndegeocello’s taut, funk-informed bass line, she sounds newly awakened to a fresh range of nighttime activities." --Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, June 13, 2001 Madeleine Peyroux Standing On The Rooftop Track Listing: 1. Martha, My Dear 2. The Kind You Can't Afford 3. The Things I've Seen Today 4. Fickle Dove 5. Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love 6. Standing On the Rooftop 7. I Threw It All Away 8. Love In Vain 9. Don't Pick A Fight With a Poet 10. Meet Me In Rio 11. Ophelia 12. The Way of All Things |
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