Madeleine Peyroux

Hi,

Bob Reina of Stereophool put me on to Madeleine Peyroux, she'll be playing one of my local, relatively, music halls in october. The first one I heard was 'Dreamland' which appears to be getting some light re-promotion, in my view this one bears a much stronger 'Holiday' stamp. Peyroux herself always denies this, but there's a certain timbre of voice that brings Billie to mind but Peyroux does not carry the evident pain that Bille evokes for me.

'Careless' love is more mainstream than jazz to me, and has some fine covers including a Dylan song "You're going to make me lonesome when you go", there's also a hank Williams cover. It's very pleasant ear candy in any case.

BTW, "Dreamland" is available for 6.98€ from http://www.amazon.fr so it's got to be available elsewhere for a similiar price.

Hi Peter

I think I know what you mean by "mainstream", inasmuchas it's definitely easy on the ear, & not one of those albums that you have to already be into Jazz to appreciate.

Apparently, having waited 8 years since putting out Dreamland, she's now released two albums in as many months. OK, "Got You on My Mind" is actually a duet, with William Galison, but it looks like maybe the respective labels aren't on speaking terms?

Still, all good news from my POV - more new music for me to hear

J

PS, Dreamland is slightly more over here: £7.99 at Amazon - think it'll be worth it though.

Postage and packing to add at Amazon unless you put in a bigger order.(£19)

Howard

.........101cd.com have Dreamland for £4.99 plus 75p P&P

uniffical website : http://www.madeleinepeyroux.org/index.asp

Note ther is a rumor she is on TOTP on BBC 2 tonight at 7.00pm

I have all her CD's-great voice. Apparently from reports she is shy and nervous performing live though teh voice is just as it sounds on CD.

regards
GEOFF

Thanks guys, Have just ordered Dreamland from 101.com (it's £10-99 on Play.com!!)

Phil.

I just discoveded Muriel Zoe, who does a great cover of "rickki don't lose that number" on "Neon Blue". Huskier than Madeleine, but not a siren either, still hardly jazz, but on the excellent ACT label that has brought you E.S.T.

Rubbish for the Gittanes/Espreso set, drivel for men or more unlikely women with Hifi systems.
The absolute pits.

KRO. I take it from the 'KRO' that your taste in football teams greatly outweighs your taste in music

Entirely too correct.

What does K R O stand for? I am curious, given the above, which mystifies me. Maybe I am just thick, but please do explain! After all I know somethings, so I'd do well to learn a few others.

Fredrik

KRO = Keep Right On = Keep Right on till the End of the Road which is to Birmingham City Football Club what You'll Never Walk Alone is to Liverpool FC. If you see what I mean.

It's actually an old Harry Lauder song which was first sung, so legend has it at the FA Cup Semi Final in 1956 - although it has to be said there is some debate about that.

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Originally posted by KRO:
Rubbish for the Gittanes/Espreso set, drivel for men or more unlikely women with Hifi systems.
The absolute pits.

Muriel or Madeleine ? both, most likely, nevermind. Why do you assume that people that might like that kind of music smoke & drink coffee ?

The whole thing is a marketing exercise,french fags,coffee,choice of guitar,name,cafe,all a load of bollocks.

KRO

No pleasure in life at all? It's all a load of bollocks right?

Geoff, Having a third rate artist foisted upon you in a most obvious Parisienne/Cafe marketing ploy is not my idea of a good time.
Why do your self down and listen to the rubbish,file with Harry Connick jnr,and that other prat who plays the piano his name i forgot long ago.
Strip all the trimmings away and you are left with little of any worth.

Madeleine Peyroux gets played to death on the Australian radio. I quite like her but I didn't buy her album as I get to hear it it on the radio everyday.

It is pretty relaxing, does she get Norah Jones style hype in Europe?

Gus

KRO
I will admit this is simple stuff which does not challenge the listener. I happen to have a liking for Madeleine's singing voice strengthened by the fact that it is what you hear when she sings in the flesh which is often not the case with lightweight pop vocalists who were created in studios. Don't blame the french blame the canadians.

BTW I suspect the "other prat who plays the piano" you refer to is Jamie Cullum! If so I think your description is spot on.

Of course that does'nt mean to say we understand each other.

quote:

Originally posted by KRO:
The whole thing is a marketing exercise

Please point me toward the label that doesn't engage in this. Some of the marketing exercises are more sophisticated, some less so, some are much more successful than others, but labels want to sell Miles just as badly as they want to sell Eminem. The Mercedes salesman may wear a nicer suit than the guy selling Hyundais, but that's his schtick, and it doesn't keep the Hyundai guy from moving a helluva lot of cars. Car salesmen and record labels just want to sell you things - that's what businesses do. Who sees quality in which product is down to the driver or the listener.

PS - Seeing as Ms. Peyroux made a living for awhile as a street musician in Paris, reckon she's got the proper cred to pull off the "marketing hype" her label has fabricated for her.

Bought the CD without listening beforehand (no available listening post).
Had never heard this artist before, nor been subjected to any "marketing".

In a word...Fantastic voice...very billie holliday-esque; I love it

quote:

Originally posted by KRO:
The whole thing is a marketing exercise,french fags,coffee,choice of guitar,name,cafe,all a load of bollocks.

I certainly feel that way about Norah Jones & Diana Krall, but didn't feel that way about Madeleine Peyroux. I'll accept that thay can hardly be considered jazz vocalists against the likes of the greats from a bygone age. But I find I can listen to the likes of Stacey Kent or Madeliene Peyroux with pleasure.

So, where are you seeing the marketing for MP ? Coz, over here in France, I ain't seeing any, except that if you want to have a listen at the FNAC (think virgin megastore but not so loud) you can because she might be on one of the listening posts.

I find also that vocalist and small jazz group fits into a living room better that many other kinds of music.

God ,you can even buy it at Starbucks now!

Following on from the earlier comments about this being "a marketing exercise", it turns out that Ms Peyroux would disagree - seems like she's done a runner to avoid being part of the PR machine. Jazz singer Peyroux 'disappears'

The quote "She is that rare thing, an artist more interested in her music than in the glitz and glamour of showbusiness." seems to sum up her views well....

Yeah, And if you buy that,you will have no trouble buying in to all the affectation that her music reeks of, putting aside the packaging.