My World Lisa Simone

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Album-Release:
2016

HRA-Release:
13.09.2017

Label: Sound Surveyor Music

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Vocal

Artist: Lisa Simone

Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)

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  • 1 Let It All Go 03:08
  • 2 Unconditionally 03:23
  • 3 Expectations 03:53
  • 4 I Pray 03:53
  • 5 I've Learned 01:29
  • 6 My World 04:08
  • 7 If You Knew 03:37
  • 8 Ode to Joe 03:21
  • 9 Tragique Beauty 03:58
  • 10 Hold On 03:27
  • 11 This Place 04:19
  • 12 Work Song (Bonus Track) 03:17
  • Total Runtime 41:53

Info for My World

Wem die Gnade der Geburt berühmter Eltern zuteilwurde, rennt in der Show- und Medienwelt zwar zuweilen offene Türen ein, muss aber auch mit der Skepsis der Öffentlichkeit rechnen. Lisa Simone, Tochter der legendären Sängerin Nina Simone, ging deshalb erst einmal einen völlig anderen Weg und ergriff einen technischen Beruf bei der US-Air Force inklusive Stationierung im Irak. Dann aber zog es sie rasch nicht nur vor die Filmkamera, sondern auch als Musicalsängerin auf die Bühne des Broadway. Mit der Acid Jazz Band »Liquid Soul« verdiente sie sich weitere Meriten, ehe sie mit ihrem ersten Soloalbum »All Is Well« ein fulminantes Debut ablieferte. Die Medien scheuten entsprechend keinen Vergleich mit ihrer berühmten Mutter, hoben aber auch hervor, dass sie konsequent ihren eigenen Stil entwickelt hat.

War ihr Erstlingswerk „All Is Well“ noch eine komplette Hommage an ihre Mutter, geht es auf „My World“ vor allem um sie selbst, um ihre Welt. Sie vermittelt durch ihre Songs, wie wichtig ihr die Familie ist. Von ihrem entfernten Sohn in Ode To Joe, zu ihrer Tochter RéAnna, der sie ihren Song Unconditionally widmet und mit der sie eines der besten Kompositionen des Albums gemeinsam singt: I Pray.

Ganz ohne Bezug auf ihre Mutter geht es dann aber doch nicht: Auf If You Knew drückt sie ihre Liebe und ihr Bedürfnis aus, ihr nahe zu sein. Sie wird heraufbeschwört in Tragic Beauty, ein Lied, das sie schrieb, als ihre Mutter im Sterben lag.

Die 53-jährige Lisa Simone singt über ihr Glück, endlich ihren Platz als Sängerin in der Welt gefunden zu haben. Mit und durch ihre Erfahrungen und Begegnungen weiß Lisa, wie sie vergangenes Leid überwinden kann und teilt heute tiefe Freude und Gelassenheit mit ihrer Musik. Durch all dies bleibt nur eine klare Wahrheit: Lisa Simone schreibt auf Ihrem zweiten Album großartige Lieder.

„[…] Lisa Simone präsentiert sich als eine starke Person, die in ihren Songs eine eigene, utopische Welt entwirft, in der plötzlich erreichbar scheint, was ihrer Mutter verwehrt blieb: Ruhe, Liebe und Respekt vor all dem, was Individualität ausmacht.“ (Stefan Hentz, Jazz thing)

„Keine Frage: Es führt kein Weg daran vorbei, Lisa Simone in die Liste der derzeit weltweit besten Sängerinnen aufzunehmen!“ (Good Times)

Lisa Simone, Gesang
Hervé Samb, Gitarre
Reggie Washington, Kontrabass, E-Bass
Sonny Troupé, Schlagzeug, Percussion




Lisa Simone
Nina Simone’s daughter, followed a unique path. During her childhood she moved all over the world, following the success of her mother’s career. When she finally left home she enrolled in the U.S. Air-Force. After serving in the Iraq War she changed her path towards music, singing with Spanish star Raphael on his world tour. Later, she was recognised in the U.S. for singing with the pioneer Grammy Award nominated acid-jazz band Liquid Soul. After that, Simone took her first steps as a solo singer with her Broadway debut. It was here that she learned her trade and discovered her true passion for performing every day, no matter where or when, and connecting with her audience.

Her last album, All is Well, was a sort of precursor to My World. Hervé Samb was the project’s musical director from the beginning and went further, constantly pushing boundaries by improving the arrangements and orchestration. The arrangements and compositions rely on simple and organic choices, playing to the group’s strengths: their acoustic potential, live sound, and an unmistakable personal touch, which were patiently developed during their live concerts. My World is the completion of a very fine balance that Lisa Simone, Hervé Samb, and their musicians have been able to successfully bring to life on stage during the last two years.

My World is the fruit of a harmonious collaboration between Lisa Simone and Hervé Samb. It was recorded in two different places in France: in the Cévennes foothills at Studio Recall (which had already worked with French and international artists such as Alain Bashung, Noir Désir, and Césaria Évora), and in the Parisian region at Yellow Sub Studio (Zazie, Garou…). New instruments were added to intensify the original band. A brass section and some percussion feature in the grooviest tracks (Unconditionnaly, Hold on, Tragic Beauty), and a string quartet for additional character and soul to My World, Expectations, and This Place. But this album, more than anything, bears tribute to its vocal star. Lisa Simone’s voice is accompanied by Lisa Spada’s, and by all the musicians’ in the title track My World, adding a unique texture to it. This album’s biggest interest lies with the vocal arrangements, the purest form of human expression, enabling Lisa Simone’s message to fully resonate.

With My World, Lisa Simone allows her listeners to experience her personal world, and we discover her family’s importance through her songs. From her distant son in Ode to Joe, to her daughter RéAnna, to whom she dedicates the song Unconditionally, and who performs one of the album’s best tracks, I Pray, with her mother Lisa. Lisa also sang about her mother Nina, who had also expressed her love to Lisa, movingly dedicating her the song If You Knew, in which she expresses all her love and her need to be close to her. Nina Simone is evoked in Tragic Beauty, a song that Lisa wrote at the time of her mother’s death. Similarly, This Place makes reference to Nina’s house in Carry-le-Rouet, South of France, where Lisa decided to settle after her mother’s death in 2003.

Fifty-three year old Lisa Simone sings about her happiness of finally finding where she belongs in the world and of simply being alive. Along her experiences and encounters, Lisa knows how to transcend her past suffering and today shares a profound joy and new serenity with her music.

Through all of this, one simple truth remains: Lisa Simone writes superb songs.



Booklet for My World

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