Melody Gardot – Sunset In The Blue (Deluxe Version) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

In 2015, Melody Gardot proved with Currency of Man that she was able to step out of her comfort zone, because this album, which looked like her hair, clearly showed a soul’n’blues oriented facet. That’s not to say that her brilliant previous attempts didn’t fit her musical personality, but on this record she confirmed with a hint of less jazz how much she feels connected to Philadelphia, the city where she grew up and where the groove has a completely different spice… The Sunset in the Blue, released five years later, sounds like a return to her own roots. Those thanks to whom Melody Gardot has made a name for herself. She approaches jazz and bossa nova in a liberated way, as if it were a matter of course due to the unexpected situation of 2020. Just as she starts working on this fifth studio album, the pandemic brings everything to a halt and forces the American to rethink her project. In this way, it proposes to all participants scattered all over the world to continue working from a distance. Melody Gardot lives in Paris, the conductor responsible for the arrangements Vince Mendoza in Los Angeles and most of the musicians in England! Despite all the limitations, the miracle takes place and it lasts for almost five months. So Mendoza was forced to conduct the musicians playing in London’s Abbey Road Studios from California and from the screen! In addition, there was also the time difference. In addition to Mendoza, Melody Gardot once again had two other key figures at her side, to whom she owed the success of My One and Only Thrill in 2009: producer Larry Klein and sound engineer Al Schmitt, two artisans who understand each other on velvety soft sound…

In the end, however, you forget this manual, because you really enjoy what has been concocted at the last minute. Throughout the Sunset in the Blue, Melody Gardot remains unshakably faithful to her confidential, almost unapproachable form of expression. She slips once more into the role of Gardot, who whispers something in our ear, in order to make us completely willless. It is the one who sometimes sings alternately with a phrase played on the piano, sometimes with a few plucked sounds on the guitar. Even those who loll on a lush, but never honey-sweet sound carpet full of violins. But the title song of the album is the icing on the cake of this recipe, which you just can’t resist. The same feeling arises when she looks with the same restraint at her beloved Brazil (Ninguém, Ninguém, Um Beijo) or when she covers first-class hits (Moon River, I Fall in Love to Easily). A beautiful album on which the somewhat intrusive pop song, Little Something, stands out in duo with Sting from the atmosphere typical for this Sunset in the Blue…

Tracklist:
1. Melody Gardot – If You Love Me (04:35)
2. Melody Gardot – C’est Magnifique (04:52)
3. Melody Gardot – There Where He Lives In Me (05:49)
4. Melody Gardot – Love Song (03:58)
5. Melody Gardot – You Won’t Forget Me (06:05)
6. Melody Gardot – Sunset In The Blue (04:32)
7. Melody Gardot – Um Beijo (04:06)
8. Melody Gardot – Ninguém, Ninguém (03:38)
9. Melody Gardot – From Paris With Love (Single Version) (04:47)
10. Melody Gardot – Ave Maria (04:27)
11. Melody Gardot – Moon River (03:48)
12. Melody Gardot – I Fall In Love Too Easily (03:09)
13. Melody Gardot – Little Something (02:41)
14. Melody Gardot – From Paris With Love (Acoustic) (04:21)
15. Melody Gardot – Love Song (05:25)
16. Melody Gardot – Trav’lin’ Light (04:06)
17. Melody Gardot – What Is This Thing Called Love (03:27)
18. Melody Gardot – C’est Magnifique (Live In Namouche Studios) (04:54)