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David chose the music on this album as quote "music that had a specific influence and bearing on my becoming a vocalist" and the tracks chosen do showcase his vocal talents to great effect. It's hard to pigeon-hole the overall style of the album, but my main impression was the tracks would not have sounded out of place sung by the Rat-Pack (Frank, Dean, Sammy, etc.) of the sixties U.S. That's a compliment by the way! The inclusion of an Amy Winehouse song - Love Is A Losing Game also gives the album a contemporary feel.
Here is the official press release for the album and a cover image. PRESS RELEASE
The songs come from a wide range of times and places in David’s musical history: "I chose music firstly that I was passionate about, that I felt I had to sing, but secondly, music that had a specific influence and bearing on my becoming a vocalist." "Each song is a song that either taught me how to sing through its original singer or whose singer first lit the fire in me to sing at all." "I was still a kid when I first heard One Day In Your Life and 99 Miles From LA sung by the great Johnny Mathis. Lover Come Back To Me and Right As The Rain I heard by Streisand. These were singers with such inexhaustible range and control that they had me for the first time listening to the voice as much as the song." "The romantic power of Matt Monro made Portrait Of My Love a must sing and of course no album is complete without some homage to the genius of Burt Bacharach, God, Give Me Strength."
"Although some of the arrangements are set in the world of jazz we put a distinctive Latin flavour to several tracks as a sort of tribute to my Mexican origins and even included a song from one of Mexico’s greatest singers, Vikki Carr, Y Volvere." "In the end our goal was to create an album that feels adult, that feels sophisticated, that feels good." Many thanks to CURTAIN RECORDS for all the information and images. |
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