Artist.......: Eleni Mandell
Album........: Miracle Of Five
Label........: Zedtone Inc.
Genre........: Pop
Catnr........: ZED-005
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Feb-07-2007
str.date.....: Feb-06-2007
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.elenimandell.com
track title time
01. Moonglow, Lamp Low 03:36
02. Girls 03:25
03. My Twin 04:12
04. Salt Truck 02:29
05. Wings in His Eyes 02:14
06. Make-Out King 03:27
07. Miracle of Five 04:04
08. Perfect Stranger 03:18
09. Dear Friend 03:39
10. Somebody Else 03:00
11. Beautiful 02:44
12. Miss Me 03:04
Runtime 39:12 min
Size 46,6 MB
Release Notes:
With the conversational intimacy of her phrasing
and the torchy romanticism of her most seductive
material, Eleni Mandell sounds more than ever like
a period piece throwback here. The title track, the
opening "Moonglow, Lamp Low," and the closing
after-hours-piano-lounge "Miss Me" evoke the
sophisticated heyday of Cole Porter and the
Gershwins, with saxophonist Jeff Turmes playing
Lester Young to Mandell's Billie Holiday. She also
displays a penchant for waltzes and lyrical
anachronisms (does anybody really speak of "motor
cars" these days?). Yet "Girls" and "Make-Out King"
sound girlishly coquettish in comparison with such
cosmopolitanism, "Salt Truck" seems sing-song and
nursery-rhyme slight, and "Dear Friend" suffers
from an increasingly busy arrangement. "My Twin,"
"Wings in His Eyes," and "Perfect Stranger" reflect
Mandell's continued growth as a writer, but the
album as a whole, despite generally strong
production by Andy Kaulkin, suggests that she most
needs an editor who can help this eclectic artist
focus on what she does best. Don McLeese
