7/5/2023 0 Comments Emilie claire barlow clear day![]() ![]() Track List: Amundsen On a Clear Day Midnight Sun Because Fix You Unrequited Under Pressure Si J’etais un Homme It’s Just Talk Feelin’ Groovy La Llorona I Don’t Know Where I Stand Sweet Thing Mineiro de Coração. Related content: Artist Profile – Emilie-Claire Barlow ‘Clear Day’ was nominated for two 2016 Juno Awards: Vocal Jazz Album of the Year, and the “Jack Richardson Producer of the Year” Award for Steve Webster and Emilie-Claire Barlow. It’s going to be a long time before I or anyone who hears the album recovers from such abject beauty. Clear Day, to my mind, is an extraordinary, visual album with Emilie-Claire Barlow as its painter of songs. Despite its deep forays into her own experiences, this fine chanteuse had come to touch me in ways that I never thought possible with music that was not accompanied by pictures. I could see why Barlow was so (justifiably) proud of the achievement. The re-creation of the songs in Barlow’s sound world strikes a chord in the listeners’ hearts and minds. But Clear Day stands out as a most impressive record not simply vocally, but in terms of orchestral scoring as well. Mind you working with a big band and/or an orchestra is not new in popular music. She also manages en route to completing a most beautiful album to make music that is remarkably clean and unhackneyed. She is a compelling story-teller as much as decorative word-painter. And yet the profound beauty of the song is never lost as Barlow and Webster appear to have worked closely on the texts and their own interpretations in the form of original lyrics and arrangements.Įmilie-Claire Barlow is a musician who thinks through her material with nuanced gracefulness. Throughout these songs and in the mood portraits there is a fine use of dynamics with the barest minimum of melisma. The foreign language songs that includes Si J’étais un Homme (French) and Mineiro de Coração (Portuguese) suggests time-travelled joyfully. The recital’s repertoire keeps up the narrative suspense while seeming to peel away at the onion of her life delicately. Barlow leads you on a journey that you cannot pull out of, nor would you want to. There is no sentimentality, but great depth of emotion in the work. She begins her thematically-selected tales of ships and journeys and things that go bump in the heart with a challenge thrown at herself. Emilie-Claire Barlow is a truly enchanting artist. I was enthralled.Īnd then I heard the album and my heart started to beat a little faster. ![]() I heard all about how each song happened, the little things that made a difference to each and how what was conceived on the staves became this grand passion that finally exploded in the studio with Barlow’s group, getting the final treatment as Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest was plunged into the mix. ![]() The full impact of the trials and tribulations, and the joys of making something truly beautiful was delivered in all of its finery. She was reliving the precious moments in the making of Clear Day as if they were unfolding before our eyes. Barlow’s joy at making things come about was reflected in her voice as we spoke. Webster arranged and Barlow did too, also writing lyrics again, together with Webster for some of the instrumental originals on the album. Moving between Mexico and Canada became a way of life as the project took shape. The story goes that Emilie-Claire Barlow and her boyfriend and producer, Steve Webster retreated to Mexico spending the greater part of 2014 there as they crafted arrangements to the songs that she was going to make her own on this record. ![]()
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