Results for "Meeco"

Chris May's Best Releases of 2012

by Chris May
December 20, 2012

Christian ScottaTunde AdjuahConcord RecordsIn 1959, when Whitney Balliett, the New Yorker's jazz critic, published a collection of his columns, he titled the book The Sound of Surprise. The promise of the unexpected, wrote Balliett, was jazz's most precious quality. In a year which went on to include the release of ...

Meeco - Eloisa

Featuring the music of Meeco
Duration: 5:37
March 27, 2012

Meeco: Beauty of the Night

by Dan Bilawsky
March 3, 2012

While danger, intrigue and excitement are often born beneath a silvery moon, love, loss and regret seem to come first to Meeco's mind when his thoughts turn to the night. The Paris-based composer/producer gathered what can only be described as a dream team of jazz's crème de la crème to help him bring life to eight ...

Meeco: Meeco: Beauty of the Night

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 2, 2012

Extraordinary songwriter/producer Meeco's Beauty Of The Night comes with a hidden cautionary note which is not visible or audible until the first strains of the music is heard. It is an elementally sad album and a box of Kleenex may be de rigueur. However, this is not to say that the album is not beautiful. After ...

Meeco: Beauty of the Night

by Edward Blanco
February 26, 2012

Paris-based composer/producer Michael Christian Maier, alias Meeco, has never truly delivered a standard jazz album, preferring instead to craft musical projects that are creative, innovative and different from the rest, described as “neither classical nor jazz" (Jaques Morelenbaum). A follow-up to Perfume e Caricias (Connector, 2010), Beauty of the Night is Meeco's third disc and his ...

Meeco: Beauty of the Night

by Chris May
February 17, 2012

Anyone unfamiliar with Paris-based composer/producer Meeco and his gorgeous, sophisticated jazz can get approximate bearings from two other artists. One is Antônio Carlos Jobim, partly for the influence of bossa nova on Meeco's writing, partly for the heart-on-sleeve romanticism his songwriting shares with Jobim. The second is Astrud Gilberto, who is suggested by the Brazilian vocalist ...

Perfume e Caricias

By Meeco

Label: Connector Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Cabelos ao Vento; Segredos; Perfume e Caricias; Passaro Azul; Robe Cetin; Simplismente Voce; Cartas e Livros; Renacenca de Amor; Cabelos ao Vento (Alternate Take).

Perfume e Carícias

By Meeco

Label: Connector Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Cabelos ao Vento; Segredos; Perfume e Carícias; Pássaro Azul; Robe Cetin; Simplismente Você; Cartas e Livros; Renacença de Amor; Cabelos ao Vento (Alternate Take).

Meeco: Perfume e Caricias

by Edward Blanco
October 27, 2010

Portuguese for “Perfume and Caresses," Perfume e Caricias offers a relaxing and tender musical experience, perfect for those who appreciate the lighter side of jazz. Written as an intimate statement of music, the eight-song, one alternate take repertoire, has been described as “fragile and introspective" in nature. Composed and produced by German-born Michael Maier aka “Meeco," ...

Meeco: Perfume e Carícias

by Dan Bilawsky
September 26, 2010

Everything about the music of Meeco speaks of subtlety, seduction and mood, from the cover art--with vocalist-lyricist Eloisia embracing him in what can only be described as a Calvin Klein advertisement-type pose--to the title itself, which is Portuguese for “Perfume and Caresses." The music, presented in easy-to-digest short tracks, with the longest performance clocking in at ...