Voice

Voice Artist: Alison Moyet
Label: Sanctuary
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5050159027095
ASIN: B0006ICFN6


Release Date: 2005-03-08

Voice


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Tracks:

  1. Windmills of Your Mind
  2. Man I Love
  3. Almost Blue
  4. Je Crois Entendre Encore
  5. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
  6. God Give Me Strength
  7. Wraggle Taggle Gypsies-O!
  8. Dido's Lament: When I Am Laid in Earth
  9. Chanson des Vieux Amants
  10. Cry Me a River
  11. Bye Bye Blackbird
  12. Alfie [*]

Similar Items:

  1. Hometime
  2. Raindancing

Album Description

Re-issue features one bonus track. Following on from the success of her Brit nominated album Hometime (2002), Alison Moyet releases Voice. Produced and arranged by Academy Award winner Anne Dudley, this album is certain to become an all-time classic. It is a collection of songs by other composers - a radical diversion for Moyet who has chosen in this instance to concentrate on her instrument alone. The album includes standards such as "The Man I Love", "Cry Me a River" and Michel Legrand's "Windmills of Your Mind". Voice further showcases Moyet's tone and phrasing, her eclectic tastes, and above all--her voice at its best. 12 tracks in total. Sanctuary. 2004.

Album Details

Updated Version of the Album featuring a Bonus Track. "Voice" is a Remarkable Lunge in a New Direction. She is Known as One of Premier Voices in British Pop, Thanks to her Hit Singles with Former Depeche Mode/Erasure Synth Wiz Vince Clarke as the Duo Yazoo and her Own Successful Solo Career in the Late 1980's. This Project Showcases her Vocal Prowess by Covering Some of Finest of Pop Classics, Like Michel Legrand's "The Windmills of Your Mind", Jacques Brel's "la Chanson Des Vieux Amants", Elvis Costello's "Almost Blue" and Costello and Burt Bacharach's "God Give Me Strength" as Well as Classics by Bizet and Purcell. The Album was Produced by the Art of Noise's Anne Dudley, who Won an Academy Award for "The Full Monty" Score in 1997.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars 5 + Stars from the ULTIMATE Critic...........2005-08-28

Never before has there been an artist to grace the scene and do it in style like Moyet. She shows and performs ever so gracefully, as a natural. Her vocal abilities are that of some of the greatest singers of all time. Why in America is she not recognized as much as trendy pop-icons? Probably because her style and class is too much to deal with, when what the record companies really want is sex, subsidy, and a flexible 17 year old barbie doll. Do we need another? ...Well, Alison is none of those, THANK GOD! Here's where the real talent is.
Glossy, smooth and rich, this mellow, chill-out work is definitely a must for the wind-down. "Voice" is that. A compilation of standards (and some non-standards) is quite a package to behold. You know when you hear the commencement of Alison's breathtaking performance of "Windmills Of Your Mind".
Crystal clear vocals and an orchestra that are a great compliment to her vocals that don't take them over (as often vocalists will do to cover their shortcomings).
It is amazing to me that this album was not the classic album of 2004, with its smooth, full, and satisfying path that it leads you down.
The songlist for this album has been wisely chosen, as it is not boring to sit through. With the medium-ranged "Windmills", then to the fast beat "Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies" in the middle to keep your attention, and then the closing finalé wraps up with the aluring "Bye Bye Blackbird" and a crecendo into "Alfie" (title song from the movie of the same name) that seems a better orchestrated package than the final product that appeared in the movie.
By the time you conclude this rich and chocolatey gem, you'll be relaxed.

5 out of 5 stars Spine tingling.......2005-08-11

Certain albums provide the perfect accompaniment to certain times of the day- ergo the appearance of something called `Supper Jazz". And `Voice'? Voice is an album for the small hours, a post dinner party time when you're cuddled up with the one you love on the sofa picking the bits of gristle from between your teeth. It's a gorgeous, smoky collection of torch songs and standards, all hand picked to show off Moyet's beautiful voice. And what a voice it is- at once fragile and immensely strong, and always wonderfully emotive. Her take on Purcell's majestic `Dido's Lament' is spinechilling in its magnificence. Excellent.

5 out of 5 stars

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