A Stomach Is Burning
Melanie De Biasio
Jazz
2007 | FLAC 44.1kHz 16bit | 10 tracks · 49:24
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Melanie Di Biasio's voice is infused with a dark, caramel warmth that is at its best when given time to ooze out slow and quiet. Occasionally clumsy lyric-writing and diction (De Biasio sings mostly her own English-language songs) is rendered irrelevant through timbre and lingering phrasing. Although a sprinkling of more melodic and sprightlier songs enliven the album, it's when the tempo crawls and forms are distended that the singer can generate her most powerfully absorbing atmospheres, as she does on the title track. Her high-pedigree lineage (Billie Holiday/Nina Simone/Erykah Badu) places the singer at the centre of the songs,

Melanie De Biasio

1Down3:21Melanie De Biasio / Pascal Mohy / Pascal Paulus
2A Stomach Is Burning5:04Melanie De Biasio / Pascal Paulus
3Never Gonna Make It3:49Melanie De Biasio / Pascal Mohy / Pascal Paulus
4My Man’s Gone Now7:22Ira Gershwin / DuBose Heyward / Dorothy Heyward / George Gershwin
5Blue5:17Melanie De Biasio / Pascal Mohy
6Let Me Love You5:35Melanie De Biasio / Pascal Paulus
7The Latest Light of Love3:05Melanie De Biasio / Pascal Mohy
8Convictions6:56Melanie De Biasio / Pascal Paulus
9One Time4:29Melanie De Biasio / Pascal Mohy / Pascal Paulus
10Les Hommes Endormis4:29Louis Aldebert / Monique Aldebert

Credits

Acoustic Bass — Axel Gilain Drums — Teun Verbruggen Guest — Steve Houben Saxophone — Steve Houben Flute — Steve Houben Mixed By — Daniel Léon Organ — Pascal Paulus, Pascal Paulus Clavinet — Pascal Paulus Piano — Pascal Mohy

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