Artist.......: Melody Gardot
Album........: Live at Olympia Bruno Coquatrix
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2016-04-10
Str.date.....: 2015-10-26
Quality......: 216kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://melodygardot.co.uk/
track title time
1. Live at Olympia Bruno Coquatrix 62:48
* Don't Misunderstand
* 12/8 Interlude
* Same To You
* She Don't Know
* Morning Sun
* Les Etoiles
* Baby I'm a Fool
* Who Will Comfort Me
* Preacherman
Runtime 62:48
Size 97.03
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The story of vocalist Melody Gardot is as remarkable as any who perseveres
against abject adversity. Born in New Jersey in 1985, she took up piano and
played as a youngster on the nightclub scene of Philadelphia, influenced by
jazz, folk, rock, and pop music. At age 19 she was a fashion student at the
Community College of Philadelphia. But, on a fateful day, while riding her
bicycle, the driver of a Jeep made an illegal turn, hurtling into Gardot and
leaving her in the street for dead. As she lay hospitalized for months with
multiple head injuries and pelvic fractures, her love for music was the best
therapy she could receive. While in her hospital bed, she wrote and recorded
songs that would become the EP Some Lessons. Upon her eventual release from
intensive care, Gardot found the strength and determination to further her
career as an artist. Blessed with a beautiful voice and grand insight as a
songwriter, her cognitive powers slowly but surely became pronounced, leading to
the independent recording and release of her debut CD, Worrisome Heart, which
was reissued in 2007 by the Verve label. Her music could be described as a cross
between Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Eva Cassidy, and Shania Twain, but goes
deeper than mere pop convention. Gardot is hypersensitive to light and noise,
thus she wears dark glasses, and uses a cane to walk. On-stage she requires a
special seating unit, and wears a Transcutaneous Electro-Nerve Stimulator, a
TENS device, to assist in alleviating her neuralgic muscle pain. As amazing as
her story is, what is more evident is that she possesses a blue style and
persona that reflect not only her afflictions, but conversely the hope and joy
of making personalized music that marks her as an individual and original.
Though touring is difficult, she has been performing in major cities on the East
Coast to support her recordings. In 2009, working with producer Larry Klein and
arranger Vince Mendoza -- both known for their work with Joni Mitchell -- Gardot
followed up her Verve debut with My One and Only Thrill. Gardot returned in 2012
with her third studio album, The Absence, featuring production from
guitarist/composer Heitor Pereira.
Gardot altered her musical direction when she returned to the recording studio.
She reteamed with Klein, and focused on music strongly influenced by R&B, blues,
and jazz in a set of original, socially conscious songs. Her first single/video,
"Preacherman," was inspired by the death of Emmet Till. The second, "It Gonna
Come," was released as a docu-video a week prior to the album. The full-length,
Currency of Man, was released by Decca in June of 2015.
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