Melissa Errico

Melissa Errico – Sondheim In The City (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 54:48 minutes | 988 MB | Genre: Jazz, Pop, Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Theatricals Recordings

“The finest all-Sondheim album ever recorded,” was The Wall Street Journal’s verdict on Melissa Errico’s ecstatic, inward-turning Sondheim Sublime (released in 2018). Now, her new tribute to Broadway’s greatest songwriter, Sondheim In The City, changes tone to offer us a more outward-driven, kaleidoscopic street fair of New York scenes and moments – summoning back to life the poetic vision of a man who once confessed that his entire creative life had been spent in a twenty-block radius of Manhattan.

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Melissa Errico – Out Of The Dark – The Film Noir Project (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:16:42 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ghostlight Records

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.
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