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Madeleine Pei
SOUND ADVICE
DREW HARTON Staff Writer
DREAMLAND Madeleine Peyroux
As soon as you hear Madeleine
Peyroux sing one word on
Dreamland. voull be certain she is
the product of a gene cloning
experiment light years more radical
than sheep.
The mad scientists apparently
took DNA from the long-departed
Billie Holiday and Bessie Sn^ith
and fused it to create an uncanny
combination. Hearing Peyroux sing
Humpers' remc
SOUND ADVICE
DAVID BISHOP Staff Writer
PLASHQUE VALENTINE The Humpers
Until about two years ago
Epitaph was mainly known as a
"new school" punk label that mostly
put out So Cal influenced melodic
hardcore.
Then, one of their mindnumbingly
generic bands, the
Offspring, achieved mainstream
success, and suddenly, Epitaph
owner (and former Bad Religion
guitarist) Brett Gurewitz found his
D.I.Y. little label had gained the
attention of the mainstream.
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causes an immediate double take;
it is actually scary how similar she
sounds to the Queen of Blues and
the Queen of Jazz.
Madeleine Peyroux's voice is an
amazing mix of the two singera with
the mellow throatiness of Billie
Holiday and the warm roughness
of Bessie Smith wrapped in
Peyroux's own silky smoothness.
Even if Peyroux is not the genetic
daughter of Billie Hobday and Bessie
Smith, she is certainly their spiritual
daughter.
Her voice moves over a wide
iin true to punk
the Offspring were just the first
Epitaph band to really break into
that "let's spend our entire life at
the mall, dude" demographic.
Mr. Brett, being the savvy
businessman CNN portrays him
as, realized he could earn enough
for a Scrooge McDuck-like money
bin if he could convince the public
Epitaph was a "legitimate" label.
It didn't help when Offspring
switched to a major label after
entering the realm of being played
during fair rides.
One of Mr. Brett's first moves
toward "legitimizing" Epitaph was
signing a band that broke away
from the traditional skateboardingfriendly
sound Epitaph was
renowned for, yet who would sell
more albums than previous Epitaph
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range of emotion through the album,
from happiness, to love and sadness,
to desperate longing. Each different
emotion is so subtly vet fully
conveyed by her full, flowing voice,
so much so that you can embrace
all of her heartbreak in the soft
roughness and all of her joy in the
warmth of her voice.
On the album, the restless
sadness of ":Walkin' after Midnight"
is followed married bliss of "Fun
Out of Life." The entire album is
constantly contrasting itself to a
beautiful amalgamation of emotion.
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experiments like Wayne Kramer
and Gas Huffer.
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mostly covers of classic jazz, blues,
and fhlk tunes, as well as two Bessie
Smith tunes. Three of the tunes
are penned by Peyroux, and like
her voice, the songs on the album
cover a total range of emotion. The
songs are eclectic, even dipping into
French folk songs.
And in tracks like "I'm Gonna
Sit Right Down and Write Myself
a Letter" and her self-penned
"Dreamland," she mixes folk and
jazz styles in a manner reminiscent
of that pioneered by Joni Mitchell
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you touch / Turns to whitebreac
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of the people you meet" (in the aptly
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