Pink Martini - Splendor in the Grass (2009)



Pink Martini - Splendor in the Grass (2009)





Pink Martini - Splendor in the Grass (2009)
mp3 320kpbs | 114 MB | 54:08 min.

“ Over the course of three superb albums that have sold more than two million copies worldwide, Portland, Oregon’s mucho-eclectic outfit Pink Martini have served as international music tour guides imbuing a diverse collection of unpredictable influences ranging from Latin infused sambas, 30’s orchestrated standards, Cuban jazz and lounge-y torch ballads. “I’d call our music old fashioned pop with a global perspective,” says pianist and co-founder Thomas Lauderdale, who is also the band leader. “It has that feeling of the atmosphere of the 30s, 40s, 50s, early 60s, but global in scope.” Pink Martini is known for mixing a wide variety of contemporary pop influences, classical and world arrangements and, from Lauderdale’s descriptions, “Splendor In the Grass” continues in this tradition. “Tuca Tuca,” a popular Italian song from 1970, is augmented with the use of a sitar (the actual instrument used by Peter Sellers in the 1968 film “The Party”) and vocalist China Forbes teams with Sesame Street’s Emilio Delgado for a bilingual version of “Sing” (a song originally composed for the popular kids program and covered by The Carpenters). For the title track, the group drew inspiration from poets William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman and “a little bit of Tchaikovsky.” “I think this is very different than anything we’ve ever released,” he says. “It’s more like an early 70s pop ballad.”




1. Ninna Nanna
2. Ohayoo Ohio
3. Splendor in the Grass
4. Ou est ma tete?
5. And Then You're Gone
6. But Now I'm Back
7. Sunday Table
8. Over the Valley
9. Tuca Tuca
10. Bitty Boppy Betty
11. Sing
12. Piensa en mi
13. New Amsterdam
14. Ninna Nanna reprise










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