From the Top of the WorldCatalog: AKR057
Cover art by David Stith
Release date: September 23, 2008
While Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond retains a French vocabulary more comparable to that of an African Grey Parrot than to Victor Hugo, oh how she does love to sing French songs from the 1930s. Borrowed melodies from Worden's favorite French sparrow, the inimitable Edith Piaf, "Adieu mon Coeur," and "Hymne A L'Amour" have become standard concert repertoire for My Brightest Diamond in recent years.
After having fled Germany to escape the Nazi's in 1933, composer Kurt Weill penned the music for "Youkali:Tango Habenera". Years later, Roger Fernay added lyrics describing a vagabond trip to an island of bliss called Youkali, whereupon landing a fairy would act as one's personal tour guide. Youkali is a land of happiness and fulfilled desire, a place where all the stars shine brighter. But the dreamy mists dissipate in the second verse of Fernay's piece, as life progresses only tediously while poor human souls seek to escape to the mysterious utopia in vain.
With the help of co-producer / ear candy man Zac Rae, a longstanding Diamond collaborator, these recordings take new flight with his host of reversed pianos, paint can snares, and warbling theramins. |
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Be Brave
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Shark Remixes
Shark Remixes Vol 3 - Roberto C. Lange
Shark Remixes Vol 2 - Son Lux
Shark Remixes Vol 1 - Alfred Brown
A Thousand Shark's Teeth
Inside a Boy
Tear It Down
Disappear
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