Melody Gardot: THE ESSENTIAL MELODY
H πολύ αγαπητή και στην Ελλάδα Melody Gardot, γιορτάζει 20 χρόνια καριέρας και κυκλοφορεί μια προσωπική συλλογή με δικά της διαχρονικά τραγούδια και 2 ακυκλοφόρητα νέα τραγούδια.
“THE ESSENTIAL MELODY GARDOT”
“A remarkable artist” - The Guardian
“A magnetic performer” - The Times
Η ανθολογία της Αμερικανίδας diva Melody Gardot, συμπεριλαμβάνει 25 κομμάτια που έχει επιλέξει η ίδια!
“I tried to create a vibe as one would with a set list, especially for the vinyl, so that each side has a mood,” – Melody Gardot
TRACKLIST
Side A:
1. Baby I’m A Fool
2. If The Stars Were Mine
3. C’est Magnifique feat. António Zambujo
4. Morning Sun
5. Sweet Memory
6. Mira
7. Over The Rainbow
Side B:
1. Worrisome Heart
2. Our Love Is Easy
3. Love Song (Feat. Ibrahim Maalouf)
4. La Charon des Vieux Amants
5. Les Étoiles - Live
6. La Vie En Rose
Side C:
1. First Song *UNRELEASED*
2. This Foolish Heart Could Love You - The Paris Sessions
3. Once I Was Loved
4. Ain’t No Sunshine (Live In Paris)
Moon River
Side D:
1. Your Heart Is As Black As Night
2. If I Tell You I Love You
3. Who Will Comfort Me
4. Love Me Liker A River Does (Live In Paris)
5. Bad News (Live)
5. La Llorana (Live) *UNRELEASED*
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Melody Gardot was born in 1985 in New Jersey, and was surrounded by music from the start, singing songs with her mother while riding in the car, and later taking piano lessons. By her teenage years, Gardot began to perform around Philadelphia, even as her studies led her more towards art and fashion. Then at the age of 19, while riding her bicycle on a city street, she was hit by a car making an illegal turn. The tragic event changed the course of her life.
The resulting head and pelvic injuries led to two years of an exceedingly slow and painful recovery process. Gardot had to recover memories and reestablish motor and communication skills. Finding herself overly sensitive to light and sound, music therapy proved the most effective recuperative tool, the “lightning bolt” — as she calls it — that brought her back. “I was singing and writing songs as a means to relearn how to speak. The message was that music is an all-powerful force.” Hypersensitive to light and noise, she wore dark glasses, and the music she listened to — and in which she began to discover her own sound — was necessarily soft, slow, and melodic. Even sitting in a chair was a challenge at first. Unable to play piano she began to learn guitar. While still in her hospital bed, she wrote and recorded songs that would become her first recording, the 2005 EP Some Lessons: The Bedroom Sessions.
The local, then regional notoriety Gardot gained quickly led to her being signed by Universal Music in 2006, and she soon recorded her full-length debut album Worrisome Heart, released in 2007 on the Verve label to warm critical response. Her breakthrough came in 2009 with My One and Only Thrill, produced by Larry Klein (celebrated for his work with vocalists, especially Joni Mitchell) with arrangements by Vince Mendoza, the album peaking at number two on Billboard’s U.S. Jazz Albums chart and eventually selling 1.5 million copies worldwide, and securing three Grammy nominations. Its success led to a number of international tours, lifting Gardot to headliner status. Three years later, in 2012, she released The Absence, which debuted at the top of Billboard’s Jazz LP chart and was produced by Brazilian guitarist/composer Heitor Pereira, revealing Gardot expanding her stylistic palette to include more exotic sounds and rhythms. Reuniting with Larry Klein, Gardot released Currency of Man in 2015, her voice developing a stronger, more robust edge and a musical direction that furthered her exploration of using recording techniques to creatively craft songs for modern ears, strongly influenced by R&B, blues, and traces of modern pop. Live in Europe, Gardot’s first full-length live album, was released in 2018, celebrating not only her live performances, but one of her favorite touring bands.
In 2020, Gardot and Klein reunited yet again to produce the voice-and-orchestra Sunset in the Blue. The 13-track album featured a mix of original tunes and well-chosen covers performed with the support of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and featured an all-star cast of studio contributors including Sting, jazz trumpeter Till Brönner, Portuguese singer Antonio Zambujo, arranger Vince Mendoza, and engineer Al Schmitt. Shifting her approach yet again, Entre eux deux was released in 2022, a fine-tuned collaboration between Gardot and Brazilian pianist Philippe Powell (son of a legendary guitarist Baden Powell.) Focusing only on voice and piano, the album features ten tracks, most composed by Gardot.
Gardot’s ongoing focus on her health and her love of foreign musical traditions contributed to her decision in 2012 to relocate to Lisbon, and then in 2017, to Paris. In France, she has been welcomed and risen to a star of great magnitude, winning the country’s highest cultural award, a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an honor shared by the likes of William Burroughs and Philip Glass.
Looking back on two decades of personal progress, musical ascendancy, and stunning consistency all points to the idea of an artist of lasting power who has many chapters left to write in her story. To think that Gardot’s journey began in a hospital bed is amazing in itself; that she was able, within a few short years, to discover her musical identity all while growing up in public, is testament to an enduring talent with much more left to share.
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