STACEY KENT The Changing Lights (Pure Pleasure Analogue
limited edition 13-track double album 2-LP pressed on
180-gram vinyl, mastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering. The
album's musical focus is Brazilian, mixing classics with
originals, whileswitching smoothly between English,
Portuguese and French. 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. Gatefold picturesleeve with hype sticker, factory
sealed. Highly recommended).
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Stacey Kent The Changing Lights - 180 Gram Vinyl - Sealed UK 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
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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 Légère, written with Bernie Beaupère, 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.
Side 1
1. This Happy Madness
2. The Summer We Crossed Europe In The Rain
3. One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So)
Side 2
1. Mais Uma Vez
2. Waiter, Oh Waiter
3. O Barquinho
Side 3
1. The Changing Lights
2. How Insensitive
3. O Bebado E A Equilibrista/ Smile
Side 4
1. Like A River
2. The Face I Love
3. A Tarde
4. Chanson Legere
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| Condition : |
Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info. |
| Availability: |
In Stock - Buy Now for shipping on Monday 15th December
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| Year of Release: |
2014 |
| Artist: |
Stacey Kent (click here for complete listing) |
| Title: |
The Changing Lights (click here for more of the same title) |
| Price: |
£ 59.99, US$ 80.39
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| Postage/Shipping: |
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| Format: |
2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album) |
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| Record Label: |
Pure Pleasure Analogue |
| Catalogue No: |
PPAN17259 |
| Country of Origin: |
UK
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| Language: |
Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. |
| Date of Release: |
24 July 2014
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| EIL.COM Ref No |
CEY2LTH797716 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Barcode : |
5060149621998 |
| Genres: |
Female Solo, Jazz
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| Related Artists: |
Marcos Valle & Stacey Kent |
| Complete Stock List: |
Stacey Kent |
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sales@eil.com to contact our sales team. |
| Alternative Names: |
None |
| To order by phone: |
Call +44 1474 815010 quoting EIL.COM reference number CEY2LTH797716 |
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