Clear Day (Emilie-Claire Barlow album)

Clear Day
Studio album by Emilie-Claire Barlow
Released October 23, 2015
Recorded 2015
Genre Jazz
Length 66:00
Label Empress Music Group
Producer Emilie-Claire Barlow, Steve Webster
Emilie-Claire Barlow chronology
Live in Tokyo
(2014)		 Clear Day
(2015)

Clear Day is the 11th album by Canadian Jazz Vocalist Emilie-Claire Barlow. It features the Dutch jazz and pop orchestra Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley. It won the Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year in 2016.

Clear Day is a "mélange of folk and rock staples"[1] with songs by "artists spanning all genres and time periods, from Brad Mehldau to Coldplay."[2] The album is a narrative with each song telling part of her personal story -- "Each song represents my state of mind, a turning point, a crossroad, ...The important thing was that the song needed to convey that particular moment in time."[3] The record also features a 70-piece Metropole Orkest, expanded from the usual 52 piece line up.[4]

The album was produced and arranged by Barlow and Steve Webster with orchestration by the duo as well as two orchestrations by John Metcalfe, arranger for the Peter Gabriel's New Blood Orchestra.[5]

Critical reception

Clear Day has been critically acclaimed by reviewers. Canadian music writer Kerry Doole wrote that Barlow's talents "coalesce to stunning effect on Clear Day, the most ambitious offering yet in a prolific discography".[6] The CBC's Melody Lau wrote that Clear Day is "a gamble that pays off when she cleverly pulls a mélange of folk and rock staples into the realm of orchestration."[7] Christophe Rodriguez of Montreal's Sorties Jazz Nights wrote that Barlow "seems to have reached another level" and that "she crafts her albums like a precision watchmaker"[8]

Track listing

  1. "Amundsen" - (Shelly Berger)
  2. "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner)
  3. "Midnight Sun" (Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke, Johnny Mercer)
  4. "Because" (Lennon–McCartney)
  5. "Fix You" (Coldplay)
  6. "Unrequited" (Brad Mehldau)
  7. "Under Pressure" (Queen, David Bowie)
  8. "Si j'étais un Homme" (Dianne Tell)
  9. "It's Just Talk" (Pat Metheny)
  10. "Feelin' Groovy" (Simon & Garfunkel)
  11. "La Llorona" (Traditional)
  12. "I Don't Know Where I Stand" (Joni Mitchell)
  13. "Sweet Mineiro de Coração—Gord Sheard" (Van Morrison)

References

  1. ↑ "CBC".
  2. ↑ "CBC".
  3. ↑ "CBC".
  4. ↑ "CBC".
  5. ↑ "CBC".
  6. ↑ "Kerry Doole".
  7. ↑ "Melody Lau".
  8. ↑ "Christophe Rodriguez".
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