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5.0 out of 5 stars buy the import, Jun 5 2007

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Charles A. Duchesne "Pushed" (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ma Fleur (Audio CD)

I don't understand why they would change the track order for the North American release and cut out one of the best tracks (Child Song). Do yourself a favor and get the import. This track order makes for an album that never quite seems to hit its stride. Strange how much the order can affect an album, but this just drags. Album of the year for me, the UK version is a masterpiece.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Exquisite pleasures and many kinds of emotions., Aug 9 2007

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George Jorge (London , UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ma Fleur (Audio CD)

It took five years for the follow up to 2002's highly acclaimed "Every Day".
"Ma Fleur" once again sees Jason Swincoe draw on the talents of a disparate group of performers, often from jazz backgrounds, to create the subtle, swelling orchestral sounds that reference the constructive forms of film soundtracks and prove devilishly difficult to describe.As mentioned, there are quite a few jazz influences in here, but they also owe a debt to trip-hop pioneers like The Orb and indeed to Drum and Bass in places. Small wonder that Swincoe's loose band of performers also include turntablists like Patrick Carpenter.
"Ma Fleur" is billed as the soundtrack for a film that hasn't yet been made, which would clearly be a weepie if it ever were. Themes of lost love and mourning run through "Ma Fleur" in thick stripes.
Because Swincoe is interested in creating moods and conveying emotions, he structures his albums, as you might expect, to tell a story.
He employs a wide range of singing talent who represent the viewpoints of characters in his tales.
The track, "To Build a Home", a grand, billowing piano ballad which could draw admiring sighs from Antony Hegarty or Chris Martin, is as immediate as it gets.
Elsewhere, moonlighting vocalists, including Lou Rhodes and Fontella Bass, are like shapes in the twilight, softly merging with nuanced arrangements which evoke the maverick work of David Axelrod, Charles Stepney and Talk Talk's Mark Hollis.
As said before, the veteran singer Fontella Bass (best known for the vocals on "Rescue Me"), who also appeared on "Every Day", returns to lend her cracked gospel vocals to the slow and elegiac "Breathe", and "Familiar Ground".
There's a sense of space; an absence of clutter; an enrapturing hush.
Neither jazz nor trip-hop nor any other label you might care to slap on it, "Ma Fleur" delineates an immensely moving, utterly distinct night-time world which is a pleasure to inhabit.
There is the odd moment when things do flirt with pretentiousness, or merely sound like soundtrack fillers (the title track, in particular), but Jason Swinscoe has otherwise created an absolutely breathtaking experience that really does quietly move you through a number of exquisite emotions.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best albums we bought in 2011, Dec 23 2011

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This is one of the best albums we bought in 2011. It plays regularly while preparing/eating diner and fits well with a glass of good red wine.

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