HELEN MERRILL & PIERO UMILIANI - PAROLE E MUSICA
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LP USATO.COPERTINA INTEGRA VG CON BORDO SUPERIORE SCOLLATO.DISCO ASCOLTATO.
RCA LPM 10105 made in italy
Dai un'occhiata alle mie inserzioni!
LP IN VG CONDITION.
Side 1
01 Night And Day
02 Everything Happens To Me
03 Autumn In New York
04 Why Don't You Do Right
05 You Don't Know What Love Is
Side 2
06 These Foolish Things
07 April In Paris
08 I've Got You Under My Skin
09 Solitude
10 Willow Weep For Me
11 When Your Lover Has Gone
Helen Merrill will be turn eighty this year while this album - her masterpiece - is now fifty years old.
It was recorded in Italy, after she relocated there in early 1960. An unusual feature of the LP is the addition of spoken word lyrics which precede each song. Fernando Caiati does the honours with some rudimentary instrumentation in the background. This gives the album an atmospheric edge, the torch songs and ballads perfectly complimented by the eloquent Italian language lyrics.
The songs, many of them standards, are elevated to classic status by Merrill's flawless and emotional renditions. Autumn In New York is sublime, melancholy yet hopeful. Everything Happens To Me, a humourous homage to Sod's Law is almost devasting in its delivery. You Don't What Love Is, Solitude and Weep Willow For Me are brooding, smoky epics with perfect phrasing and sublime high notes.
After the faux-upbeat desperation of I've Got Under My Skin and These Foolish Things, the LP twists and turns into the final act with Caiati's words increasinly reeking of foreboding and regret (despite me not understanding a word of Italian). We finally slip into the mournful and desolate When Your Lover Has Gone.
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