New Music: Julian Yeo
Julian Yeo - Deep Purple Dreams
It's the first 2010 release to hit the mailbox here at TPR and it's another album that I have been listening to since the summer that is finally mastered and out as a finished project. You may have noticed that we have been playing some cuts on The Penthouse ever since Julian handed me the final mixes on a CD-R a while back.
It is (sort of) a concept album, as our artist is a jazz vampire in the 1930s. The back story, included in the packaging, tells the story of Yeo - who takes the job singing at the Bitter Melon run by a pale skin Russian woman named Yelena. It doesn't seem very odd that, as a jazz club owner/manager, she never goes out during the day. Of course, our clever hero starts to put things together in his mind but by that time, he's in love and chances are he'll be dropping into dark, smoky clubs for quite some time to come. You'll have to read the rest of the tale, penned by Andrew Willet, in the CD.
The lineup is somewhat dark and down tempo (following the theme):
No Moon At All
Close Your Eyes
Whatever Lola Wants
How Insensitive
Deep Purple
Love For Sale
Quizas, Quizas, Quizas (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps)
Anything Goes
Let Yourself Go
Too Darn Hot
On A Slow Boat To China
September Song
I'll Wait For You
While this isn't a full review, let me say that Julian loves a retro-jazz sound and his musicians give these standards a new and perhaps somewhat twisted feel. If someone wants to make a "Indiana Jones"-era prequel to the Twilight saga, I think this could serve as a ready-made soundtrack.
Julian's musical director Jesse Gelber leads the band from the piano, Doug Largent is on stand-up bass and Kevin Dorn on drums. Nick Russo (Guitar) and Alan Grubner (Violin) fill out the production. Recorded at Pete Karl Studios in Brooklyn and sounding great, this album really shows the continued growth of Yeo and his band since their wonderful 2008 effort Unusual Passage.
Currently available for pre-order (shipping January 11, 2010) on Amazon.com
http://www.julianyeo.com/
BP
It's the first 2010 release to hit the mailbox here at TPR and it's another album that I have been listening to since the summer that is finally mastered and out as a finished project. You may have noticed that we have been playing some cuts on The Penthouse ever since Julian handed me the final mixes on a CD-R a while back.
It is (sort of) a concept album, as our artist is a jazz vampire in the 1930s. The back story, included in the packaging, tells the story of Yeo - who takes the job singing at the Bitter Melon run by a pale skin Russian woman named Yelena. It doesn't seem very odd that, as a jazz club owner/manager, she never goes out during the day. Of course, our clever hero starts to put things together in his mind but by that time, he's in love and chances are he'll be dropping into dark, smoky clubs for quite some time to come. You'll have to read the rest of the tale, penned by Andrew Willet, in the CD.
The lineup is somewhat dark and down tempo (following the theme):
No Moon At All
Close Your Eyes
Whatever Lola Wants
How Insensitive
Deep Purple
Love For Sale
Quizas, Quizas, Quizas (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps)
Anything Goes
Let Yourself Go
Too Darn Hot
On A Slow Boat To China
September Song
I'll Wait For You
While this isn't a full review, let me say that Julian loves a retro-jazz sound and his musicians give these standards a new and perhaps somewhat twisted feel. If someone wants to make a "Indiana Jones"-era prequel to the Twilight saga, I think this could serve as a ready-made soundtrack.
Julian's musical director Jesse Gelber leads the band from the piano, Doug Largent is on stand-up bass and Kevin Dorn on drums. Nick Russo (Guitar) and Alan Grubner (Violin) fill out the production. Recorded at Pete Karl Studios in Brooklyn and sounding great, this album really shows the continued growth of Yeo and his band since their wonderful 2008 effort Unusual Passage.
Currently available for pre-order (shipping January 11, 2010) on Amazon.com
http://www.julianyeo.com/
BP
Labels: 2010, Deep Purple Dreams, jazz, Julian Yeo, The Penthouse, vampire, Yeomo
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