STOLEN DIAMONDS - Beas

STOLEN DIAMONDS (CVLD290 )

Author : Oscar Del Barba
Performer : Beàs

Tracks

#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, percussions

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 90s, Emilia Vecchi - intellectual, humanist and passionate about singing - decided to create a concept music album, dedicated to the world of the night, in its sweetest and dreamiest soul. With the help of Marco Lincetto, she selected a series of famous songs, drawing from the world of international and Italian pop and rock; and then entrusted these songs to the composer and arranger Oscar Del Barba. Well known internationally for his uncommon musical qualities as an author and performer and for his very particular compositional style that knows how to mix classical styles with those of jazz and popular music with unusual refinement and elegance, Maestro Del Barba created an original, homogeneous and unitary musical score, in which two different instrumental groups, atypical and almost at opposite ends, gave life to a work that at the very moment it was written, already became a timeless classic, beautiful and at the same time fascinating also for its extreme difficulty for anyone who wanted to try their hand at singing. This instrumental base was then recorded on which Emilia Vecchi herself, after a long study period, sang the original lyrics for a record that was published in 2003 by the Sicut Sol label.
Today, about 15 years after those days, Emilia Vecchi has “agreed to have the legendary original files of the instrumental bases stolen” by the young, but already esteemed singer Beàs, for this her first solo album, not by chance entitled “Stolen Diamonds”.
With this operation Emilia Vecchi and Marco Lincetto transfer into the world of so-called “non-classical” music what is instead a custom for the world of classical music, that is the reinterpretation of a score in some way “written” (in our case also already partially recorded). The instrumental bases, recorded in 2002, were in fact remixed by Marco Lincetto to harmonize them with the voice of Beàs, who sang the lyrics today, offering a rightly new and original interpretation. The magic of Great Music that is reborn and changes every time a great interpreter proposes it again.
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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