Melanie de Biasio

Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities (2016) Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 1, 2022

When Melanie De Biasio released No Deal in 2014, it was embraced by jazz critics, DJs, and club audiences simultaneously. Gilles Peterson was so taken with its monochromatic ambient textures, stark arrangements, and clever improvisational intimations that he commissioned an album of remixes. Blackened Cities is not a conventional follow-up, but an adventurous endeavor rife with risk. The release consists of a single 24-minute track that unfolds like a suite. The conservatory-trained Belgian vocalist and flutist and her longtime musical associates – Pascal Mohy on piano, Pascal Paulus on analog synths and clavinet, and Dré Pallemaerts on drums (with guest double bassist/cellist Sam Gerstmans) – deliver a full-scale sonic drama that crosses a wide musical expanse and evokes an encyclopedia of stylistic references, yet comes across as a totally original whole. Its title comes from impressions of postindustrial cities De Biasio visited on her international tour: Detroit, Manchester, her native Charleroi; each has a storied past and a devastated façade, yet reflects its own unique beauty and tenacity.

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Melanie De Biasio - No Deal (2013) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at June 24, 2023

Melanie De Biasio - No Deal (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 38:35 minutes | 413 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Tasteful, subtle and inscrutable, Belgium's Melanie De Biasio and the band have made one of the few modern vocal jazz records. The singer, who also plays flute on the album, which she studied at the Conservatoire Royal De Bruxelles – was born in Charleroi, Belgium, to an Italian family originally from Venice and grew up listening to Maria Callas, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Jeff Buckley and Rage Against The Machine. But you wouldn't necessarily infer such diverse influences from "No Deal". It's a record that she produced herself and is steeped in the language of blues and jazz. "No Deal" is a dark, transcendent songs that seem to suspend time.

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Melanie De Biasio - Il Viaggio (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 11, 2023

Melanie De Biasio - Il Viaggio (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 373 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 189 MB
1:22:26 | Jazz | Label: [PIAS] Le Label

When the multidisciplinary arts festival Europalia invited Melanie de Biasio to participate in it's 2021 festival on the theme of Trains & Tracks, the Belgian musician was inspired to return to her roots, to retrace the route of immigration from Italy to Belgium taken by her father's parents. With lightweight recording equipment and an old camera, she settled alone in the small mountain village of Lettomanoppello, in Abruzzo, Italy. This became the starting point Il Viaggio. From there Melanie journeyed in the Dolomites where her family originated from and where she spent summers as a child. This journey was not only introspective but also collaborative at it's heart. All English lyrics are the result of a continuing collaboration with Gil Helmick, poet and activist living in Maine. With Gil's poetry as a starting point, the two create an improvisation with words, and a synergy of images and meaning is born.

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Melanie De Biasio - Il Viaggio (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 11, 2023

Melanie De Biasio - Il Viaggio (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 82:32 minutes | 848 MB
Experimental Jazz, Noir Jazz, Ambient, Female Vocal | Label: PIAS Recordings, Official Digital Download

Il Viaggio is an offering, a quest for musical, physical, and spiritual renewal, born from an emotional memory awakened. Joining the concrete and ambient, it drifts from the natural sounds of a new day towards a dreamed world. Taking to the road to reinvent oneself is the common thread running through this album, which is organized as a sonic journey in two parts, Lay Your Ear To The Rail (Disc 1) and The Chaos Azure (Disc 2).

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Melanie De Biasio - Lilies (2017) Music

Posted by Domestos at Nov. 29, 2017

Melanie De Biasio marks her return with third album, Lilies - from the unsettled glide of Your Freedom Is The End Of Me, De Biasio mining a deep blues over spectral, knowing piano, to the restless rumble of Gold Junkies, which relocates the infernal bustle of Nina Simone's Sinnerman to the 21st Century, to the bereft, bewitched Brother, and the haunted, after-midnight spook of And My Heart Goes On - you'll be struck by how alive, how teeming with ideas and energy this music is. Classically trained and revered in her native Belgium, De Biasio has uncovered fans in the shape of Gilles Peterson - who heralded De Biasio as one of the most exciting artists in the jazz world and Radiohead's Phillip Selway with the release of her second album, 2014's No Deal.

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Melanie De Biasio - Gilles Peterson presents: Melanie De Biasio - No Deal Remixed (2015) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by Pisulik at Jan. 29, 2018

Melanie De Biasio - Gilles Peterson presents: Melanie De Biasio - No Deal Remixed (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 45:42 minutes | 457 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Internationally renowned DJ and radio personality Gilles Peterson has called upon some of the most exciting names across the jazz, electronic and indie worlds to rework Melanie De Biasio's acclaimed album No Deal, including EELS, The Cinematic Orchestra, Hex, and Seven Davis Junior. EELS haunting, orchestral reworking of opening track I Feel You is the first ever remix by Mark Oliver Everett (AKA E), who fell in love with De Biasio's music when she supported EELS at the Royal Albert Hall in June. The Cinemantic Orchestra give I'm Gonna Leave You an intense reworking, while beat maker C. Crisci, a.k.a Clap! Clap! gives the same track an afro-beat slant. Seven Davis Jr gives title-track No Deal an old school house flavour, while LA's Jonwayne coats With All My Love a lush balm of hip-hop. Japan's Toshio Matsuura (AKA Hex) adds an impressive urgency to The Flow, whilst France's modern classical composer Chassol provides a downtempo and discordant take on Sweet Darling Pain.

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Melanie De Biasio - Lilies (2017) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Oct. 6, 2017

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Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities (2016) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by Pisulik at Dec. 12, 2017

Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 24:16 minutes | 280 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Singer Melanie De Biasio breaks through in 2013 with her second album No Deal. Both public and critics are very impressed by the way in which the daughter of a Belgian mother and Italian father mixes pop with jazz. Three years later her third album Blackened Cities is released. The plate is even more versatile than its predecessor and includes a 24-minute song.

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VA - All the Singing Ladies (2018) Music

Posted by delpotro at May 16, 2018

VA - All the Singing Ladies (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 02:32:55 | 938 Mb
Pop, Vocal Jazz, Rock, R'n'B | Label: Sony Music

Radio 1 shows its female side on 4 March. Isolde Lasoen and band stroll with the fine fleur of Belgian female singers by more than half a century of female songs. Angèle, Marie Daulne (Zap Mama), Slongs Dievanongs, Lady Linn, Stefanie Callebaut (SX), Charlotte Adigéry (WWWater), Few Bits and Isolde themselves get their best with Aretha Franklin, Blondie, Nina Simone, Cindy Lauper, Billie Holiday, Feist , Sade, Dolly Parton, Janis Joplin, Suzanne Vega and Beyoncé above.

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VA - Belgian Nuggets 90s-00s Vol.2 (2018) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at May 25, 2018

VA - Belgian Nuggets 90s-00s Vol.2 (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) | 1:17:10 | 493 Mb
Genre: Acoustic, Rock, Blues, Brit Pop, Synth-pop / Label: Mayway Records

Of course, all the accolades were just another impetus to outdo ourselves with volume 2. Whereas volume one was a blend of many different genres - from heavy guitars across Brit and synth pop to hard electro beat, mellow soul and cabaret - our second instalment will have the feel of a genuine album, albeit without abandoning the treasure hunt vibe that characterises the series.

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