Melanie De Biasio ...

Melanie De Biasio is a Belgian vocalist who mixes jazz, blues, and soul. 
Born in Charleroi, Belgium in 1978, De Biasio studied classical dance and flute before discovering her love of singing. She studied music at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven and the Brussels Conservatory. De Biasio released her debut album, A Stomach Is Burning, in 2007. In 2013, she returned on PIAS with No Deal, an album that reached number five on Belgium's Ultratop chart and earned her a 2015 European Border Breakers Award. The release was also strongly supported in the U.K. by BBC DJ Gilles Peterson, who had the singer perform at his 2015 Worldwide Awards ceremony. Peterson helped put together No Deal Remixed, issued on PIAS in February 2015. Contributors included Eels, Seven Davis, Jr. and Cinematic Orchestra. De Biasio followed this up with the aural odyssey Blackened Cities on Play It Again Sam in May 2016. The EP consisted of a single 24-minute suite-like track inspired by her travels through post-industrial environs such as Charleroi, Manchester, and Detroit. The composition provocatively explores European jazz, noir-ish soul, avant pop, electro, trip-hop, and classical crossover.
(Artist Biography by Matt Collar)




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Pedro Nóbrega

 Mélanie de Biasio - No Deal (2013)

 01. I Feel You 0:00
02. The Flow 1:43
03. No Deal 7:03
04. With Love 11:29
05. Sweet Darling Pain 14:24
06. I'm Gonna Leave You 20:55
07. With All My Love 25:19
08. Sweet Darling Pain [alternative take] 33:40

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Blackened Cities

When Melanie De Biasio released No Deal in 2014, it was embraced by jazz critics, DJs, and club audiences simultaneously. Gilles Peterson was so taken with its monochromatic ambient textures, stark arrangements, and clever improvisational intimations that he commissioned an album of remixes.Blackened Cities is not a conventional follow-up, but an adventurous endeavor rife with risk. The release consists of a single 24-minute track that unfolds like a suite. The conservatory-trained Belgian vocalist and flutist and her longtime musical associates -- Pascal Mohy on piano, Pascal Paulus on analog synths and clavinet, and Dré Pallemaerts on drums (with guest double bassist/cellist Sam Gerstmans) -- deliver a full-scale sonic drama that crosses a wide musical expanse and evokes an encyclopedia of stylistic references, yet comes across as a totally original whole. Its title comes from impressions of postindustrial cities De Biasio visited on her international tour: Detroit, Manchester, her native Charleroi; each has a storied past and a devastated façade, yet reflects its own unique beauty and tenacity.

 Recorded live in the studio, Blackened Cities began as an unfinished three-minute idea brought in by the singer and left open for group interpretation. It starts with a whisper, a single organ-esque chord followed by a cello, before its lone guidepost enters: Pallemaerts' nearly constant, always inventive drumming -- shuffling, syncopating, circling -- is the pulse that signals each wave-like segment. (The spirit of Tony Williams on Miles Davis' In a Silent Way is redolent.) The musical reference points are wildly diverse:Nina Simone (the cover of "I'm Gonna Leave You" on No Deal was a watermark), the piano vamp from the Doors' "Riders on the Storm," Julie Tippetts with Brian Auger, Talk Talk's Laughing Stock, Simin Tander, Annette Peacock, Portishead, The The's "Uncertain Smile," Judy Nylon, and more come and go unhurriedly. The work gradually builds and then builds some more, without ever ratcheting up in intensity. Even at its most improvisational, Blackened Cities retains its moody, spatial, and spectral sense of groove.De Biasio delivers her lyrics in flowing extensions and deconstructions; the instrumental themes emerge from and vanish into them. Her unique phrasing employs the same maxims of silence and space that her musicians do. Even her own flute break uses an economic palette, elastically balancing harmony with breath. But in its creative leap, Blackened Cities retains all of the appealing elements heard on No Deal. As the track eventually washes into silence, it becomes evident that it had to stand as its own release. This aural travelogue's sensual cool, brooding tension, and elegiac tenderness are inseparable from one another. It is complete, but even at this length Blackened Cities ends all too soon.

 Thom Jurek  
http://www.allmusic.com/album/blackened-cities-mw0002937559

Soulipsism

Melanie De Biasio ‎– Lilies (2017 - Full Album)

 [00:00] - 1) Your Freedom Is The End Of Me Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Melanie De Biasio Lyrics By – Juba Zaki Music By – Melanie De Biasio, Pascal Paulus Piano, Clavinet, Bass [r-bass], Drums, Backing Vocals, Synth [juno/solina] – Pascal Paulus [03:51] - 2) Gold Junkies Clavinet, Electric Guitar, Beats, Bass [r-bass], Tambourine, Backing Vocals – Pascal Paulus Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Sounds [vocal beats], Electric Guitar – Melanie De Biasio Lyrics By – Gil Helmick, Melanie De Biasio, Pascal Paulus Music By – Melanie De Biasio, Pascal Paulus [07:09] - 3) Lilies Bass [r-bass] – Pascal Paulus Cymbal – Dré Pallemaerts Lead Vocals – Melanie De Biasio Lyrics By – Gil Helmick, Melanie De Biasio Music By – Melanie De Biasio, Pascal Mohy, Pascal Paulus Piano – Pascal Mohy [11:12] - 4) Let Me Love You Drums – Dré Pallemaerts Lead Vocals, Sounds [vocal beats], Backing Vocals – Melanie De Biasio Lyrics By – Melanie De Biasio Music By – Melanie De Biasio, Pascal Paulus Piano – Pascal Mohy Piano, Clavinet, Synth [juno] – Pascal Paulus [15:23] - 5) Sitting In The Stairwell Lead Vocals, Finger Snaps – Melanie De Biasio Lyrics By – Gil Helmick Music By – Melanie De Biasio [18:16] - 6) Brother Clavinet, Synth [juno], Bass [r-bass], Drum [bassdrum], Tambourine – Pascal Paulus Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Noises – Melanie De Biasio Lyrics By, Music By – Melanie De Biasio, Pascal Paulus [21:21] - 7) Afro Blue Drum [drum samples] – Dré Pallemaerts Lead Vocals, Flute – Melanie De Biasio Piano – Pascal Mohy Synth [juno], Bass [r-bass], Beats – Pascal Paulus [25:58] - 8) All My Worlds Cymbal – Dré Pallemaerts Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Melanie De Biasio Lyrics By – Melanie De Biasio Music By – Melanie De Biasio, Pascal Paulus Piano – Pascal Mohy Synth [juno], Bass [r-bass], Beats – Pascal Paulus [32:35] - 9) And My Heart Goes On Clavinet, Bass [r-bass], Drums – Pascal Paulus Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Flute – Melanie De Biasio Lyrics By – Gil Helmick, Melanie De Biasio Music By – Melanie De Biasio, Pascal Paulus