STOLEN DIAMONDS - Beas

STOLEN DIAMONDS (CVLD290 )

Author : Oscar Del Barba
Performer : Beàs

Traces

1) Dream A Little Dream (W.Schwandl - F.Andrè - G.Khan) 2:52
2) Night And Day (C.Porter) 5:47
3) Mother's Nature Son (Lennon - McCartney) 3:53
4) Moon Over Bourbon Street (Sting) 5:35
5) Duerme Negrito (Atahualpa Yupanqui) 3:50
6) Moonlight In Vermont (Suessdorf - Blackburry) 5:58
7) Moon River (H.Mancini) 4:38
8) Baby Mine (F.Churchill - N.Washington) 4:52
9) Goodnight little flower (F.De Gregori) 2:11
10) The infinite (O.Paz - O.Del Barba) 3:05
11) Fly Me To The Moon (B.Howard) 3:26
12) Good Night (Lennon - McCartney) 4:09
Total Time 50:21

All arrangements by Oscar Del Barba

Tracks 1 - 2 - 3 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 10 - 11
24bit/88.2kHz original recording at Salone Da Cemmo, in Brescia, on November 2002:
Oscar Del Barba, grand piano / Guido Bombardieri, clarinets / Marina Rossi, trombone
Salvatore Maiore, double bass / Beppe Gioacchini, percussion

Tracks 4 - 9 - 12
24bit/88.2kHz original recording made at Fondazione Masiero e Centanin, in Arquà Petrarca, on October 2002: Roberto Loreggian, harpsichord / Mario Folena, flute / Paolo Tognon, dulcian

The voice of Beàs was recorded at Velut Luna Studio, Casalserugo, on February 26th, 2017 using Ribera R12 tube microphone and 24bit/88.2kHz Prism Sound AD2 Dream converter.

Mix and Mastering was made at Velut Luna Studio, Casalserugo, on February 28th, 2017

Production: Velut Luna
Executive Producers: Marco Lincetto & Emilia Vecchi
Musical Producer: Marco Lincetto
Recording, Mixing and Mastering: Marco Lincetto
Photo: Marco Lincetto
Design and Layout: The image

Notes

In the late 1990s, Emilia Vecchi—an intellectual, humanist, and passionate singer—decided to create a concept album dedicated to the world of the night, its sweetest and most dreamy side. With the help of Marco Lincetto, she selected a series of famous songs, drawing from the world of international and Italian pop and rock; she then entrusted these pieces to composer and arranger Oscar Del Barba. Internationally renowned for his uncommon musical talents as a songwriter and performer, and for his unique compositional style, which blends classical, jazz, and folk styles with unusual sophistication and elegance, Maestro Del Barba created a unique, coherent, and unified musical score. Two different, atypical, and almost diametrically opposed instrumental ensembles created a work that, from the moment it was written, became a timeless classic, beautiful yet captivating, also because of its extreme difficulty for anyone wishing to attempt singing. This instrumental base was then recorded, over which Emilia Vecchi herself, after a long study process, sang the original lyrics for an album that was released in 2003 by the Sicut Sol label.
Today, about 15 years after those days, Emilia Vecchi has “agreed to have the legendary original instrumental backing tracks stolen” by the young, but already esteemed singer Beàs, for her first solo album, not coincidentally titled “Stolen Diamonds”.
With this project, Emilia Vecchi and Marco Lincetto bring to the world of so-called "non-classical" music what is instead a common practice in the classical music world: the reinterpretation of a somewhat "written" score (in our case, even partially recorded). The instrumental backing tracks, recorded in 2002, were remixed by Marco Lincetto to harmonize with Beàs's voice, who sang the lyrics today, offering a fittingly new and original interpretation. The magic of Great Music, reborn and transformed every time a great interpreter presents it.
In the late '90s years, Emilia Vecchi - Italian scholar and amateur singer - decided to produce a musical concept album, based upon the theme of the “Night”, according especially to the dreaming soul of it.
She selected few songs among famous pop and rock hits with the help of the producer Marco Lincetto and then she asked the composer Oscar Del Barba to write a totally new arrangement of these songs. Well known all over the world for the extraordinary quality and originality of his work, Maestro Del Barba wrote a completely new score, that mixes different styles from Classical, to Jazz, to World Music. The result was a score that became “a classic” exactly when it was written...: fascinating even due to extreme difficulty for any voice that would try to sing it. In the early 2000s years the score was recorded by Marco Lincetto and afterwards Emilia sang and recorded the original texts of the songs into the new score written by Del Barba, for the Italian independent label Sicut Sol (very good “friend” of Velut Luna...).
Now Emilia Vecchi “agreed to be stolen” the legendary files from Beàs, young singer, but already hold in high regard, for her first solo album, whose title is not by chance “Stolen Diamonds”. This project is not a “cover album”, but you can listen to a new performance of a fixed, written, score, such as you can listen to thousands and thousands performing of Classical Music: but it is NOT exactly Classical... For the very first time ever...
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