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█ ARTIST: Belle Plaine █
█ TITLE: Notes from a Waitress █
█ LABEL: 13th Avenue █
█ GENRE: Pop █
█ BITRATE: 218kbps avg █
█ PLAYTIME: 0h 28min total █
█ RELEASE DATE: 2012-00-00 █
█ RIP DATE: 2012-02-28 █
█ URL: █
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█ 01. Sweet Tart 2:39 █
█ 02. Notes From A Waitress (Thanks Bulgakov) 3:15 █
█ 03. Maybe Winter 2:10 █
█ 04. Port Angeles 3:06 █
█ 05. Vegas 4:28 █
█ 06. Waikiki 3:22 █
█ 07. Old Love 2:37 █
█ 08. Legendary 3:04 █
█ 09. To The Best Of Our Memories 3:49 █
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█ ôIf Patsy Cline and Blossom Dearie had a love child she would sing like █
█ Belle Plaine. Belle?s voice is old timey and jazzy. It has twang, █
█ crystal bells and swing. You listen to this voice, and all of a sudden █
█ your cheatin? heart has a very dry martini in hand, and you?re hearing █
█ something both timeless and brand new.ö █
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█ - Kelley Jo Burke, host of CBC?s SoundXchange █
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█ Belle PlaineÆs first full-length album, Notes from a Waitress, is a █
█ throwback to the vocal jazz of the 1960s. Think Peggy Lee. Julie London. █
█ Smart lyrics paired with a smokinÆ band. █
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█ The theme for Notes from a Waitress originated while Belle Plaine was █
█ overseas. Each song reads as a travelogue from different locales, and █
█ the listener pockets them one by one, like souvenirs from a █
█ globetrotting journey. █
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█ The title track was written while working as a waitress in Sydney, █
█ Australia. It was a dodgy restaurant with cockroaches, overly friendly █
█ cooks and the nocturnal visits of rodents. ôItÆs a mystery anyone ate █
█ there, let alone why it was so busy,ö she says. The song is a memento of █
█ her time in the service industry, and the tempo reflects the hectic pace █
█ of the popular haunt. █
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█ Midway through the album is the atmospheric ôVegasö. After she found an █
█ abandoned page of handwritten poetry in the street, Belle worked the few █
█ legible lines into a fictitious tour of the famous desert city. The █
█ ghostly mood of the song is set by the eerie tones of a vintage Premier █
█ vibraphone. █
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█ The albumÆs opener ôSweet Tartö is about as catchy they come. ôIt was █
█ supposed to be cheeky. A snarky response to unwanted advances. The █
█ irritating irony is that itÆs really who I am as a girlfriend: a tarted █
█ up version of a 1950s housewife,ö █
█ she explains. █
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█ A number of the tracks were brought to life by collaborations with █
█ pianist Jeremy Sauer. The co-writing process often found them both at █
█ the piano: Belle singing lyrics and melodies from ragged notebooks, and █
█ Jeremy composing the complex chord changes that support the tunes. █
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█ Belle chose producer/engineer Doug Organ (Colleen Brown, Ann Vriend) of █
█ Edmontone Studio to produce the album. She recruited a band of fellow █
█ Grant MacEwan alumni for the studio recording. The result of their █
█ combined efforts is nine original songs that add to the tradition of the █
█ classic jazz standards. █
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