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In 2009, Madeleine Peyroux issued Bare Bones, her first recording of all-original material with producer Larry Klein and a small group of jazz musicians and co-composers. Standing on the Rooftop is her debut recording for Decca with producer Craig Street. The group of players here is a diverse lot: drummer Charlie Drayton, guitarists Christopher Bruce and Marc Ribot, bassist Me'Shell Ndegeocello; John Kirby, Glenn Patscha, and Patrick Warren alternate on keyboards, percussionist Mauro Refosco, violinist Jenny Scheinman, and Allen Toussaint guests on piano. The program is richly and elegantly painted with modern production touches even as its songs are rooted in the historical past of classic Americana: pop songs, blues, jazz, and sitting room tunes. It includes eight originals and four covers, among them a poem by W.H. Auden set to music by Ribot entitled "Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love." The music is summery and laid-back. The languid parlor-room reading of "Martha My Dear" by Lennon & McCartney has a deliberate old-timey feel and twins well with "Fickle Dove" (one of two Peyroux tunes written with Scheinman). Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain," with its strange pump organ backdrop and studio echo, indulges the kinds of production tricks Tom Waits might employ in disguising a blues. That said, this song too has a twin of sorts in the sonically similar title track; a clattering rag blues with ambient electronics held in check by Peyroux's elegantly earthy vocal. Ribot's acoustic guitar and Toussaint's upright on the Auden poem give the singer a perfectly loose frame to create a song inside. The thin, lean, funky blues on "The Kind You Can't Afford" (co-written with former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman) and Bob Dylan's "I Threw It All Away" are both slow shuffles and high points. In the latter, Peyroux's voice shifts the lyric's meaning to where the implied bitterness gives way to bewilderment. The album's final three cuts, "Meet Me in Rio," "Ophelia," and "The Way of All Things" make fine use of Peyroux's jazz chops; and because of Street's production, make an exact time-space continuum wonderfully imprecise. As an album, Standing on the Rooftop may not be as striking as its predecessor, but perhaps it wasn't meant to be. It is a seemingly effort that pushes the familiar toward an uncertain future where pop genres cease to need to exist at all.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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John Lennon, ComposerLyricist - Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist - Marc Ribot, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Christopher Bruce, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Charley Drayton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Meshell Ndegeocello, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - John Kirby, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Emarcy
Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Bill Wyman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, INC.
Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Bill Wyman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, Inc. Under Exclusive license to Universal Music International B.V.
Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Marc Ribot, MainArtist - Christopher Bruce, MainArtist - Charley Drayton, MainArtist - Meshell Ndegeocello, MainArtist - Jenny Scheinman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Emarcy
Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jenny Scheinman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, Inc. Under Exclusive license to Universal Music International B.V.
Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist - Marc Ribot, ComposerLyricist - Wystan Hugh Auden, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, Inc. Under Exclusive license to Universal Music International B.V.
Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Batteau, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, INC.
Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist - Dylan, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, Inc. Under Exclusive license to Universal Music International B.V.
Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, Inc. Under Exclusive license to Universal Music International B.V.
Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jonatha Brooke, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, Inc. Under Exclusive license to Universal Music International B.V.
Robert Leroy Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist
℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, Inc. Under Exclusive license to Universal Music International B.V.
Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Andy Scott Rosen, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, Inc. Under Exclusive license to Universal Music International B.V.
Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, Inc. Under Exclusive license to Universal Music International B.V.
Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - David Batteau, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, INC.
Madeleine Peyroux, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, Inc. Under Exclusive license to Universal Music International B.V.
Album review
In 2009, Madeleine Peyroux issued Bare Bones, her first recording of all-original material with producer Larry Klein and a small group of jazz musicians and co-composers. Standing on the Rooftop is her debut recording for Decca with producer Craig Street. The group of players here is a diverse lot: drummer Charlie Drayton, guitarists Christopher Bruce and Marc Ribot, bassist Me'Shell Ndegeocello; John Kirby, Glenn Patscha, and Patrick Warren alternate on keyboards, percussionist Mauro Refosco, violinist Jenny Scheinman, and Allen Toussaint guests on piano. The program is richly and elegantly painted with modern production touches even as its songs are rooted in the historical past of classic Americana: pop songs, blues, jazz, and sitting room tunes. It includes eight originals and four covers, among them a poem by W.H. Auden set to music by Ribot entitled "Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love." The music is summery and laid-back. The languid parlor-room reading of "Martha My Dear" by Lennon & McCartney has a deliberate old-timey feel and twins well with "Fickle Dove" (one of two Peyroux tunes written with Scheinman). Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain," with its strange pump organ backdrop and studio echo, indulges the kinds of production tricks Tom Waits might employ in disguising a blues. That said, this song too has a twin of sorts in the sonically similar title track; a clattering rag blues with ambient electronics held in check by Peyroux's elegantly earthy vocal. Ribot's acoustic guitar and Toussaint's upright on the Auden poem give the singer a perfectly loose frame to create a song inside. The thin, lean, funky blues on "The Kind You Can't Afford" (co-written with former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman) and Bob Dylan's "I Threw It All Away" are both slow shuffles and high points. In the latter, Peyroux's voice shifts the lyric's meaning to where the implied bitterness gives way to bewilderment. The album's final three cuts, "Meet Me in Rio," "Ophelia," and "The Way of All Things" make fine use of Peyroux's jazz chops; and because of Street's production, make an exact time-space continuum wonderfully imprecise. As an album, Standing on the Rooftop may not be as striking as its predecessor, but perhaps it wasn't meant to be. It is a seemingly effort that pushes the familiar toward an uncertain future where pop genres cease to need to exist at all.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:59
- Main artists: Madeleine Peyroux
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal Music Group International
- Genre: Jazz
© 2011 Pennywell Productions, Inc. Under Exclusive license to Universal Music International B.V. ℗ 2011 Pennywell Productions, Inc. Under Exclusive license to Universal Music International B.V.
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