This track is from the album Songs of Antônio Carlos Jobim and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ipanemaloungeprojectandf

One Note Samba

This track is from the album The World I Am Livings In and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/franceslivings13

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Moontraxx is very exited to announce a new album currently being recorded by the Ipanema Lounge Project! It will be bursting with beautiful French chansons, Spanish, English and Portuguese jazz songs - a world jazz album in the true sense: These songs are a fusion of musical styles and and will transport you into different atmospheres of Southern Europe and Brazil! This is a sneak pre-hear of Sway. It is unmixed and mastered - enjoy!

With:
Frances Livings - vocals
Greg Porée - guitar
Darrell Diaz - keyboards
Joe Ayoub - upright bass
Sandro Nogueira Feliciano - percussion

Sway is the English version of the song ¿Quién será?, a 1953 mambo instrumental song by the Mexican composers Luis Demetrio and Pablo Beltran Ruiz. The most famous English version is that of Dean Martin recorded in 1954. English lyrics are by Norman Gimbel.

Moontraxx presents: Sneak preview of "Sway" by Ipanema Lounge Project!

This is just a little Samba, built upon a single note...

One Note Samba is one of our favourite tunes by the Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927 – December 8, 1994), also known as Tom Jobim. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within Brazil and internationally. 

Jobim is widely known as the composer of "The Girl from Ipanema" (Garota de Ipanema), one of the most recorded songs of all time, Jobim has left a large number of songs that are today included in the standard Jazz and Pop repertoires.

The Ipanema Lounge Project never loses touch with the intentions of the original tune. Their sophisticated interpretation of standards like ‘Corcovado’ or ‘Dindi’ perfectly capture the mood of the time, on the same note, infusing them with an easy-going, contemplative and seductive Lounge-jazz feeling.

Backed by incredible rhythmic talent on bass and percussion, the ‘Ipanema Lounge Project’ features the sultry voice of the Nu-jazz singer and songwriter Frances Livings and the harmonious tones of the classical guitarist, arranger and composer Greg Porée. 

One Note Samba by Ipanema Lounge Project (final mix)

This track is from the album Inventions and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/gregpore3

Greg Porée - Traveler

“'Songs of the Souls' is a plunge into an ocean of emotional colors, and the alto sax player on this cut never misses opportunities to express the leaps in time, place, and images of a very intimately soft spoken piece. The contrast of covering epic flows of intensity with the soft spoken voice is very interesting. The sax absorbs and reflects the intensity of the words, aptly helping to unleash the power of Frances' poetic narrative."
CD review, During the Hours (Frances Livings) by Michele Wilson-Morris,
The Entertainment Bank http://bit.ly/OPogeK


Recording credits:
Artist: Frances Livings
Album: During the Hours
Label: Moontraxx Records, 2010
Frances Livings – voice
Zane Musa – saxophone
 

This track is from the album During the Hours and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/franceslivings1

Songs of the Soul by Frances Livings

"“Maliciousness of Words” provides the listener with a taste of just how powerfully impacting words can be, when chosen carefully and said with just the right tone, volume, and intent. I found this piece to be clever and the pianist brilliant in the choices of voicings and tonal colors."
CD review, During the Hours (Frances Livings) by Michele Wilson-Morris,
'The Entertainment Bank' http://bit.ly/OPogeK


Recording credits:
Artist: Frances Livings
Album: During the Hours
Label: Moontraxx Records, 2010
Frances Livings – voice
Brandon Coleman – piano
 
This track is from the album During the Hours and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/franceslivings1

The Maliciousness of Words by Frances Livings

"The 3 songs on this recording feature duets of spoken prose and virtuoso solo instruments. The responsive tones of the performers are intimately tied to the images painted by the poetry of Ms. Livings. The single violin joining Ms Livings has amazing control of texture and intensity, so as to never get in the way or waver from the flow of images and meter of Frances’ poetic thoughts."
CD review, During the Hours (Frances Livings) by Michele Wilson-Morris, The Entertainment Bank

Recording credits:
Artist: Frances Livings
Album: During the Hours
Label: Moontraxx Records, 2010
Frances Livings – voice
Paul Cartwright – violin
 

It is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/franceslivings1

During the Hours by Frances Livings

“True Colors” is the only cover song on Frances Livings new album "The World I Am Livings In". It was written by Billy Steinberg and Tim Kelly and made famous by the American pop artist Cyndi Lauper. It was both the title track and the first single released from Cyndi Lauper's second album. 

Frances Livings’ version is influenced by European nu-jazz. Her singing style sounds for the most part effortless and soothing, giving her voice a velvety quality that is free from vocal histrionics. The instrumentation is classical guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, cajon, electric piano and synth pads. The atmosphere for the recording is set up at the beginning with a trip hop cajon groove supporting a hypnotic, arpeggiated classical guitar. This approach carries through the entire recording creating somewhat of a dreamy lounge feel. 


Frances Livings - True Colors (from the album The World I Am Livings In)

"What first really caught my brainworks in the disc was I’ll be Leaving Soon, a dark-ish pensée executed in semi-stream-of-consciousness illuminated by beautifully understated chamber strains (arranged by Livings’ husband Greg Poree) exalting a weary soul encanting verses of departure and hopeful renewal. Think of William Lyall or the Penguin Cafe Orchestra sitting in, but it’s really Livings’ writing that’s entrancing, and she penned almost everything on the CD, then chose some really good sessioneers, including Jeff Colella, whose piano work is a central aural motif, along with several superb strings-raspers." 
- A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange by Mark S. Tucker

Frances Livings - I'll Be Leaving Soon

Moontraxx - An intelligent approach to popular music! Record label and music production company, representing the singer-songwriter Frances Livings, the guitarist and jazz composer Greg Porée and recordings of the electronica band 4Urbanartists.

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