Madeleine Peyroux

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:06 pm

OK.

My computer is making me crazy though. I've said this before somewhere, but if you see a star blink out in the night sky, that will be me and my computer. Christmas comes first, so hopefully I can rememdy the situation by indulging myself (in advance of Christmas) and then indulge myself again at the correct time.

See you later,
Linda.

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:44 pm

Yes, Linda!

3) Stop that.

Immediately!!!

1) Once again, I am not playing games with you. 2) I am not suggesting you're making fun. 4) My reference to things 'leaking' was self-deprecating, 5) as my computer is dying as are many of my brain cells.

Tchocolatl · Post by **Tchocolatl** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:10 pm

linda_lakeside wrote:OK. My computer is making me crazy though. I've said this before somewhere, but if you see a star blink out in the night sky, that will be me and my computer. Christmas comes first, so hopefully I can rememdy the situation by indulging myself (in advance of Christmas) and then indulge myself again at the correct time.

See you later,
Linda.

Well Linda, here, get rust out of your French : decipher the info about another aphrodisiac cocktail. This one is much more appropriate for the long cold dark November evenings in North America, while helping your darling to make his Chrismas gifts list, among other things.

Pour deux personnes

Ingrédients :

* 20 cl de thé ;
* 2,5 cl de rhum ;
* 4,5 cl de cointreau ;
* 10 cl de jus d’orange ;
* une pincée de cannelle ;
* quelques clous de girofle et une orange pour la décoration.

Préparation :

Faites chauffer dans une casserole le rhum, le cointreau, le jus d’orange et la cannelle, remuez et retirez du feu avant ébullition. Versez le mélange sur le thé et répartissez-le dans deux verres, décorés d’un quartier d’orange piqué de clous de girofle et d’un bâton de cannelle.

Son secret :

Un cocktail chaleureux et doux, qui met en confiance et inspire la confidence. Les ingrédients simples et connus de tous jouent la carte du naturel. Pourtant, malgré son côté primaire, ce cocktail est une vraie bombe ! La cannelle, dont la saveur sucrée séduit le palais, s’avère un puissant aphrodisiaque si l’on en croit les Romains. Les clous de girofle, à l’odeur pénétrante et chaleureuse, sont un excellent stimulant, tout comme l’orange qui, grâce à teneur sa vitamine C, offre un concentré de vitalité. De quoi passer une nuit blanche !

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:20 pm

Tchoco,

I am going to copy this and put it inside my computer. It sounds very good. But tea? Well, why not? Most toddy-type drinks are made with coffee, however, I can see how Cointreau would work better with tea and oranges! Well, Cointreau being an orange liqueur anyway. Only 2.5 cl of rum?

for 2 people? You won't mind it I change it to one litre, will you?

I'm going to copy it and give it a good reading over. Merci.

Linda.

I wonder if i've over-looked a little 'surprise' in there. I'll have to read it over again.

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:26 pm

Wait just a second here. Am I making a rum, orange and cinammon casserole here? Mabye the word casserole has a meaning in French like a 'throw them all together'. Well, that's what an English casserole is. Only with food.

I'm giving it my best shot!

Linda.

You better not be laughing at me!!

Tchocolatl · Post by **Tchocolatl** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:54 am

linda_lakeside wrote:Only 2.5 cl of rum? for 2 people? You won't mind it I change it to one litre, will you?

Don't mind at all as I won't drink it. Besides 2.5 cl, one litre, more or less leakage... who cares. Although i warn you : too much alcool will do all the contrary of what it is supposed to do. But ey!

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:42 pm

Yes, I see your point. Too much alcohol leaves the mind weak and the flesh more so. Maybe 2.5 is best. I bought a package of cinammon sticks. They should last about 15 years. I hope they have a long shelf life.

Linda.

Bobbie · Post by **Bobbie** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:41 am

Today I bought tickets to see Madeleine Peyroux at Lisner Auditorium (George Washington University) in DC (where also Leonard has played before). She is appearing there at 8:00 p.m., September 24th, together with her "special guest", Martha Wainwright. Should be a great show! :--)

Bobbie

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:05 am

Martha Wainwright? No kidding. That would be a great show! What a juxtaposition! Tender/tough, both of them, but each in their own way. I love Martha! Then Madeleine seems to be her vocal opposite. What a super show that would be!

Linda.

Bobbie · Post by **Bobbie** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:45 am

Hi Linda.. yeah, I thought the same thing when I first saw it advertised this past weekend. Marc and I were sitting at the breakfast table, and I said... "Good GRIEF... Madeleine Peyroux and Martha Wainwright are appearing together at Lisner." Just seemed like an odd combination... one I never would have expected. But thinking about it, it seems just right - there are some shows you know straight away you just shouldn't pass up. I've seen Martha and talked to her a few times, love all her stuff, am convinced she's the most talented member of the family - but have never seen Madeleine, and am not very familiar with her music, apart from her newest record. But come to think of it, the song she does in French on her newest cd.. can't remember the name of the song right now.... does remind me a little of Martha's solo on The McGarrigle Hour record, Allez Vous En (by Cole Porter). Or maybe it's just the French that makes it feel familiar to the other....

Anyway... should be a good show.

Bobbie

tomsakic · Post by **tomsakic** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:31 pm

I agree with (lucky) Bobbie, Martha is fitting well there. She has many tracks close to Madeleine's jazzy style and more mainstream than BMFA or other more folkish tracks. She announced that her second album will be more popular and radio friendly (and Norah Jones was mentioned - I hope not so radio-friendly!).

In light of yesterday's Lizzytysh's comments about Rufus, and knowing her father and even mother/aunt, Martha is more than most talented in her family:-) Her first album (finally arrived two weeks ago) is one of those *very* rare gems... there were few people who never heard of her, they were totally hypnotised while the record was playing in the background. What hypnotised, the talk was immediately interrupted with question: Who is that?!

I did have mp3s before, but the record was one of those totally unexplicable happenings, in level of immediate masterpieces like Songs of Leonard Cohen or Various Positions or Dylan's Time Out of Mind or Lucinda Williams' Essence.

Still, as I don't like Madeleine very much at all (boring to me), Martha would be enough.

Bobbie · Post by **Bobbie** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:59 pm

Hi Tom.. I very much enjoyed your comments, and agree with you wholeheartedly. I'm not sure which of Martha's records was the first one - I have the one that's called "Martha Wainwright", which has 6 songs on it (and is my favourite) and was released in '99. I know (think) there are one or two (obscure) others, apart from BMFA. Indeed, she is the most talented one in the entire family... glad to finally have someone agree with me!! :--) Rufus is fine in concert.. he has wonderful stage presence, great energy, and is visually entertaining... but to listen to him on cd... well, 2 songs is about my limit. (or one and a half) After Martha, in my opinion, Kate and Anna come in second, Rufus 3rd, and Louden places a respectful last. But maybe I'm going too far in these opinions.. it's all a matter of individual taste. I'm starting to sound like a judge on American Idol, which I've never seen, but my imagination is kicking in. As for Norah Jones... she was interesting and different at first, especially for Top 40 genre, but once I started hearing her voice blasting from every passing car with the windows open or the top down in summer, I started to lose interest. Now, with the passage of time and having heard more of her stuff, all of her songs are predictable and sound basically the same to me. She doesn't do anything interesting with her voice, in the same way that Judy Collins doesn't, (and Sinead O'Connor does, for instance) if I'm making any sense.

Anyway.. I guess that's it for now!

Bobbie

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:22 pm

Hi Tom ~

I'm not moved by Madeleine, either ~ though, technically [in the vocal ways of jazz?], it seems she's accomplished. I hadn't considered the word "boring" for how her music affects me. It just doesn't 'affect' me, and I guess that may be what it is that keeps me moving on. I saw some brief footage of Martha, somewhere, and was impressed by her, however. I had imagined Martha as somehow being older than she is [maybe even as being the mother?]. That may be 'forgiveable' since it's a family. I'll take your word for it, Bobbie, that Rufus has good energy in concert. I know that can make a difference. In the footage that's included in "I'm Your Man," his facial expressiveness seems as one-dimensional as his vocals, so it seems I'd be making more than one allowance for him, if I were going ahead and 'liking' him, anyway. A cd is out of the question, for sure, though

. However, with this upcoming concert, it seems very possible that they may play off one another to the extent that Madeleine might blow me away, if I were there. I'll be interested to hear how it went. I'm guessing you already like Madeleine's singing?

~ Lizzy

Bobbie · Post by **Bobbie** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:35 pm

Hi Lizzy ~

Madeleine is ok... to my ears, she has a "thin" voice, very much compared to Billie Holiday, whom I also like "ok", but have my limits with, as well. In female singers especially, it takes a strong lusty voice to catch my attention (not including Ethel Merman... :--) ) Although she has an attention getting voice.

I do, however, pretty much like the little bit I've heard of Madeleine's new cd.. had never heard of her before she was mentioned here. I DO NOT like her cover of Dance Me To The End Of Love. I don't hear any passion in it - to me, it's just another song. But that's how I feel about 99.9% of LC covers, anyway. It's Martha I'm going to the concert for, but as with most performers, seeing a live show makes all the difference, so I'm looking forward to seeing Madeleine.

I didn't know very much about Martha until she and Lorca were with us at Hydra - had heard her (and liked what I heard) only on the cd The McGarrigle Hour, in which the entire family takes part, along with some others, like Emmylou Harris (whom I love) and Linda Ronstadt.) Great cd, by the way. I think there are at least one or two pictures of Martha and Lorca with us in the Hydra section of the Files.

I bought Rufus' cd "Want One" because the reviews were raving and raving, and I guess I felt I needed at least one. (What can I say... ?.. ) That was when it first came out.. and still to this day I haven't heard the entire thing. But yes, he is good in concert, although I don't visualize myself going to a concert where he is the sole performer. I really enjoyed him at the Hal Wilner tribute in Brooklyn - I guess it was after that that I bought his cd.

I'll let you know my thoughts about the show.

Gotta run!

Bobbie

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:33 pm

a strong lusty voice to catch my attention

Yes, that does it for me, too, Bobbie. Yes, "thin," for sure, is how I feel about Madeleine's, despite its going 'deep' at times. You pretty much need to have some emotional expressiveness going on with your singing to engage me.

Funny you mention Ethel Merman. I fairly recently heard an NPR segment on her, and was pretty impressed. They discussed her ability to hit a note dead-on the first try, and not needing any amplification to be heard [and every syllable understood] all the way to the back of the auditorium. The more examples they played, the better I liked her.

I SO agree on the "Dance Me To the End of Love" cover by Madeleine, and for the same reason. It doesn't have to be over-the-top passion; it can be equally found in understated tenderness ~ dang it, it's gotta be there somewhere, somehow! Technicality isn't the point when it comes to that song. Likewise, 99.9%

of L.C. covers don't measure up to the original with me, either.

Good info on Martha and Lorca's being on Hydra. More magic

.

~ Lizzy