Cécile McLorin Salvant - Mélusine (VINYL LP Nonesuch 075597906394) | NEW

Label: Nonesuch – 075597906394
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:Worldwide
Released : 2023
Genre: Jazz

A1 Est-Ce Ainsi Que Les Hommes Vivent ?
A2 Route Enchantée
A3 Il M'a Vue Nue
A4 Dites Moi Que Je Suis Belle
A5 Doudou
B1 Petite Musique Terrienne
B2 Aida
B3 Mélusine
B4 Wedo
B5 D'un Feu Secret
B6 Temps Est Assassin
B7 Fenestra
B8 Domna N'almucs
B9 Dame Iseut

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Cecile McLorin Salvant
Copyright © – Cecile McLorin Salvant
Licensed To – Nonesuch Records Inc.
Record Company – Nonesuch Records Inc.
Record Company – Warner Music Group
Recorded At – The Bunker Studio
Recorded At – Brooklyn Recording
Mixed At – The Bunker Studio
Mastered At – The Bunker Studio
Pressed By – Record Industry – 38671
Arranged By – Godwin Louis (tracks: A3, A5, B7)
Co-producer – Tom Korkidis
Design – Ben Tousley*, Cécile McLorin Salvant
Engineer – Andy Taub (tracks: A3 to A5, B7, B9), Cécile McLorin Salvant (tracks: B2, B4, B8), John Davis (6) (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B5, B6), Todd Whitelock (tracks: B3)
Engineer [Assistance] – Samuel Wahl (tracks: A3 to A5, B7, B9)
Hair [Wig] – Tomihiro Kono
Make-Up – Jezz Hill
Mastered By – Alex DeTurk
Mixed By – John Davis (6)
Photography By – Karolis Kaminskas (2)
Producer, Creative Director, Lettering [Fonts By] – Cécile McLorin Salvant
Recorded 4/12/22 & 4/26/22 at The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY and 6/22/22 at Brooklyn Recording, Brooklyn, NY.
Mixed July 2022
Mastered August 2022

Made in Netherlands
Barcode (Scanned): 075597906394
Barcode (Text): 0 75597 90639 4

Vinyl LP pressing. Mélusine features a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as far back as the twelfth century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl. Mélusine follows last year's label debut, Ghost Song, which has received two Grammy nominations and tremendous critical praise, including spots on best albums of 2022 lists from the New York Times and NPR, among others. The new album's songs tell the story of the European folkloric legend of Mélusine, a woman who turns into a half-snake each Saturday as a result of a childhood curse by her mother. Mélusine later agrees to marry Raymondin on the condition that he never see her on Saturdays. He agrees but is ultimately convinced by his brother to break his promise, piercing his wife's door with his sword and finding her naked in the bath, half snake, half woman. When she catches him spying on her, she turns into a dragon and flies out the window, only to reappear every time one of her descendants is on their deathbed. Salvant, whose parents are French and Haitian, says Mélusine is also "partly about that feeling of being a hybrid, a mixture of different cultures, which I've experienced not only as the American-born child of two first generation immigrants, but as someone raised in a family that is racially mixed, from several different countries, with different languages spoken in the home. "

• Condition: NEW
• Format: Vinyl
• Format Detail: LP
• Genre: JAZZ
• Released: 2023-05-05