专辑： Half the Perfect World 艺人： Madeleine Peyroux 公司： Rounder / Umgd 语言： 英文 发行日期： 2006年9月12日
专辑介绍：
Smokey-voiced chanteuse Madeleine Peyroux's third CD is a lovely collection of after-hours ruminations and should confirm her rise to fame. Credit producer Larry Klein for doing a bang-up job with the album's sound: the elegant, pared-down arrangements are all brushed drums, acoustic guitars, and cool organ licks. But of course it's Peyroux's voice that brings it all home--preferably one where the shades are drawn, embers are smoldering in the fireplace, and the white wine is kept dry. Two-thirds of the songs are well-chosen covers, including a duet with k.d. lang on Joni Mitchell's "River"; a relaxed version of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin'," from Midnight Cowboy; a delicately lilting samba take on Leonard Cohen and Anjani Thomas's title track; Serge Gainsbourg's "La Javanaise," performed in the original French; and Charlie Chaplin's "Smile," from Modern Times. The four originals, all coauthored by Peyroux, easily keep up with such august company, especially "I'm All Right"--written with Klein and Walter Becker, it captures the easy sophistication of Becker's regular band, Steely Dan. Fans of Norah Jones (whose collaborator Jesse Harris cowrote three of the songs) should gobble up this album, but Peyroux is no mere imitator: She's her own, very real thing.
Madeleine Peyroux的J'ai deux amours是巴黎清晨的一陣薄雨輕霧，淡淡地降臨在窗前，溫柔輕透的歌聲散佈整個空間....... Hey Sweet Man...Who you give your lovin' to?I gotta mind to love you,I'll love you through and through.....
曾在電影Autumn In New York中驚艷於madeleine主唱的 (getting some) fun out of life竟像極了billie的聲音，1996年Atlantic為她灌錄首張專輯「Dreamland」，全球銷售超過二十萬張的成績，難怪時代雜誌會給她冠上「比莉．哈樂黛接班人」的稱號，對一個新進爵士樂手來說，這是個極高的讚譽，相對的也可能帶來喘不過氣的壓力。
(getting some) fun out of life
1973年出生在美國喬治亞洲，15歲在巴黎迷上街頭演藝，便跟著街頭藝人走唱歐洲，與William Galison合唱的The Way You Look Tonight，還帶著吉普賽人式的悠遊瀟灑。婉轉低迴的歌聲，溫柔的要把人化掉的NO more，展現的是充滿藍調的氣質，說她是Bessie Smith再世也不為過啊。
2004年，Madeleine Peyroux 才推出了她第二張專輯：「Careless Love」。這8年，一直在各地小型爵士俱樂部表演的她，從紐澳良、洛杉磯、紐約到歐洲，有人說她是在找尋自己的聲音。我不知道，擁有天生歌后的歌喉，其實很令我羡慕。雖然我比較喜歡她的第一張專輯，幾乎是全張都好聽，但這一張應該是她的演唱生涯的一個轉型期吧。dance me to the end of love與i'll look around二首歌，乍聽雖有與billie歌聲相仿的錯覺，但刻意表現的獨特而更輕鬆自如的演唱方式，可以感受到她在為脫去billie光環所做的努力。
最令人激賞的是這首J'ai deux amours，不是濫情式的香頌，和聳斃斃的靈魂樂也扯不上邊，忘掉辛酸過往的殖民離殤，巴黎，還是那麼美。
1| I’m All Right 2| The Summer Wind 3| Blue Alert 4| Everybody’s Talkin’ 5| River” (duet featuring k.d. lang) 6| A Little Bit 7| Once in a While 8| (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night 9| Half the Perfect World 10| La Javanaise 11| California Rain 12| Smile
