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Out Of The Dark: The Film Noir Project
Melissa Errico
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
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Tracks
1 Angel Eyes 2 2 With Every Breath I Take 1 3 It Was Written in the Stars 4 The Bad and the Beautiful 5 Haunted Heart 6 Amour, Amour 7 Silent Partner 8 Farewell, My Lovely 9 Laura 10 Blame It on My Youth 11 Checkin' My Heart 12 On Vit, On Aime 13 La Solitude 14 The Man That Got Away 15 Detour Ahead 16 Shadows and Light 17 Again
Personnel
Melissa Errico
vocalsAlbum Description
At the height of the pandemic in 2020, with all the world locked away in lonely rooms and only old movies to watch at midnight, singer and author Melissa Errico suddenly returned to one of her life-long obsessions – noir! That dark, disturbing sensibility of intractable fatalism that Paris existentialists discovered in American film in the nineteen forties, and that runs as a mesmerizing, mysterious current through modern movies and modern music alike. Along with her collaborator Adam Gopnik, she curated a series of film noir classics at New York’s FIAF, appeared in the New York Times with an essay on having a black sequined gown specially made to play the role of the femme fatale on stage and offered Manhattan a concert of noir songs.
Now, her recording “Out Of The Dark: The Film Noir Project” brings together all of those threads in a single masterly sequence, a song cycle that offers an unforgettably sexy, sensual, and sophisticated arc, all black-velvet piano and vibraphone tones, telling a complete story of hope, despair, and hope renewed. In no sense a retro project, her choices reach from noir classics, like Laura and The Bad and The Beautiful, into the French chansons of the fifties and sixties, and includes the debut of four entirely new songs, by Michel Legrand, David Shire, and the late Peter Foley, all with arrangements by her musical director, pianist Tedd Firth.
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