Music Imelda May is a strange mix of styles. It's a lot of traditional rockabilly and rock & roll in its original form. There are also lots of jazz in dance halls of Harlem, but she certainly does not hide the origin and his Irish accent. When wants and needs, is much more American - like on Jeff Beck's "Rock 'N' Roll Party: Honouring Les Paul." Her latest album - "Mayhem" certainly is not directed solely to the Dublin clubbers. This global production prepared with great attention to detail by the Decca label. It's kind of a modern swing ready, so that younger customers recognize it, that is also their music.
long time ago there was jazz music for dancing. Do not forget about listening to be-bop intellectual, and sometimes a bit on the strength of the original avant-garde. In any standard, jazz is a note of the blues, or swing, or a bit of Broadway theater. Design Imelda May is a modern incarnation aranżacyjnie sonically and vitality of jazz dance. This peculiar fusion of jazz and rockabilly, which after all comes from jazz in a straight line. This is music that young people can accept as pop, but which does not hurt your ears are accustomed to good composition and a bit more complex harmony. Do not forget that all great in the forties and previously played for dancing ... ..
album "Mayhem" contains almost entirely original repertoire written by Imelda May with her husband and her band while guitarist Darrell Highamem. The exception to this rule is a cover of "Tainted Love" - Song written by Ed Cobb for the soul of the American singer Gloria Jones in the sixties. The real has gained popularity t composition, however, in the eighties due to the popular version then the group Soft Cell.
title track - "Mayhem" is a powerful rock guitar. This is followed by one of the most interesting compositions on the album - "Kentish Town Waltz" - a great ballad, and great vocals. "Inside Out" is a song alive, removed from the cabarets and more popular 60 years ago in black neighborhoods of American metropolises. "Bury My Troubles Away" is a great dance hit with a touch of blues.
Music from "Mayhem" undoubtedly owes much not only a superb voice Imelda May. It is also stable and swinging rhythm section - Al Gare (Double Bass and Bass) and Steve Rushton (drums). Darrel Guitar Highama sometimes resembles a classic rhythm guitar, Scotty Moore and Duane Eddy. The solos Darrel Higham tradition dating back to the Les Paul, it can also show the rock edge. Dave Priseman (trumpet) gr much, but it is always present where needed and when needed - just listen even "Bury My Troubles."
Let us drop so serious intellectual jazz, and suppose that there was no World War II, global recession and a ban on recordings (record ban) in the forties. Certainly, if not all of these disasters, jazz would have been happy and very likely that the main stream of entertainment reminiscent of twórczość Imelda May. Does standing in a traffic jam on the way to the sea or the mountains you can listen to Cecil Taylor or Keith Jarrett? Sure you can, but I am in such circumstances will Imelda May. Take her music on holiday with me necessarily. It's not just "Mayhem," but also "Love Tattoo ', preferably in a two-disc version (with a bonus disc concert) because Imelda at concerts is excellent. Dołóżcie a recent Jeff Beck ("Rock 'N' Roll Party: Honouring Les Paul") in the role of Imelda Mary Ford ...
Imelda May
Mayhem
Format: CD
Label: Decca
number: 602527529257
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