Melanie De Biasio

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De Biasio at the European Border Breakers Awards Show 2015 in Groningen

Mélanie De Biasio (born July 12, 1978 in Charleroi ) is a Belgian soul and jazz singer, composer and flutist.

Life

Her father's parents come from northern Italy, where she often spent the summers as a child. She owes her Belgian mother's parents that she started learning to play the flute when she was eight . In the youth orchestra she decided to study music. She studied at the WENK campus Lemmensinstituut in Leuven and completed the jazz department at the Conservatoire Royal in Brussels in three years . Her most important teacher there was the flautist and saxophonist Steve Houben , who accordingly played on her debut album and later performed frequently with her.

When she was still living in Charleroi, she mainly sang soul in her local bands. She went on a short tour through Canada with the Ensemble de l'Harmonie de Charleroi wind orchestra . From 1997 she was a member of the Harmadik Fül Trio, a jazz combo. After graduating, she went on a tour of Russia with the Belgian jazz rock formation Orange Kazoo .

Her album debut A Stomach is Burning , released on September 13, 2007, was recorded live improvising in the studio of Igloo Records. The ten tracks are almost all original compositions, some of which were created together with Mohy and Paulus, who used a Hammond organ . The reviewer for last.fm emphasized that it was a “refreshing debut made from one piece, soft in tone, but strong in its haunting power”.

Her second album No Deal with seven tracks, released on December 16, 2013, was created in the recording studio Motor Music in Mechelen . The Guardian's music critic described it as "dark, transcendent music" that "lets you forget hectic feelings". Not least because of the succinct accompanying musicians - Dré Pallemaerts : Breakbeats , Pascal Paulus : Clavinet - and Synthie - Sounds and Pascal Mohy : Piano attack - in Belgian clubs and radio stations, the album became the hottest trip-hop update since the last Portishead album celebrated. The BBC -Hörfunkmoderator and DJ Gilles Peterson helped one in February 2015 No Deal Remixed bring out album and gave her a much-publicized appearance at the Worldwide Awards ceremony, 2015.

The EP Blackened Cities , released in May 2016, is a musical meditation on post-industrial cities such as Charleroi, Manchester and Detroit. The 24-minute title track won the Worldwide Award 2017 in the Track of the Year category . The album Lilies , which was released on October 6, 2017, is also filled with an intense blues mood. The nine tracks remind the loud reviewer of Portishead and Mark Hollis ' solo album, in a certain way also of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone . He praises it as an acoustic " film noir of soul, jazz, blues, trip-hop". Radioeins praises that their music is hard to beat in terms of intensity . The music magazine Intro emphasizes that after the more experimental Blackened Cities Melanie De Biasio is practicing razor-sharp minimalism on Lilies again .

After De Biasio had long been a well-known musician in France and Belgium, she came to Berlin for her first concert in Germany in March 2014. The ARD culture magazine ttt - titel, thesen, temperamente published a six-minute portrait of the musician in October 2017.

In autumn 2017 she went on a tour through five European capitals, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, France and Germany, including the Überjazz Festival in Hamburg.

Discography

  • 2007: A Stomach Is Burning , Album ( Igloo Records ) - with Axel Gilain (db), Pascal Mohy (p), Pascal Paulus (keyb), Teun Verbruggen (dr), Steve Houben (fl, as)
  • 2013: No Deal , Album ( Play It Again Sam / Rough Trade Distribution) - with Pascal Mohy (p), Pascal Paulus (keyb, g) and Dré Pallemaerts (dr)
  • 2015: No Deal Remixed , (Play It Again Sam Le Label)
  • 2016: Blackened Cities , EP (Play It Again Sam Le Label) - with Pascal Mohy (p), Pascal Paulus (keyb, g) and Dré Pallemaerts (dr)
  • 2017: Lilies , Album (Play It Again Sam Le Label) - with Pascal Mohy (p), Pascal Paulus (keyb, g) and Dré Pallemaerts (dr)

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
FR FR MOVE BE W BEF BE F
2007 A stomach is burning - BE W113 (4 weeks)
BE W 		BE F139 (12 weeks)
BE F
First published: 2007
2013 No deal FR55 (18 weeks)
FR 		BE W5
gold
gold

(109 weeks)BE W 		BE F14 (111 weeks)
BE F
First published: 2013
2015 Gilles Peterson Presents No Deal Remixed - BE W60 (9 weeks)
BE W 		BE F45 (11 weeks)
BE F
First published: 2015
2016 Blackened Cities FR155 (4 weeks)
FR 		BE W10 (34 weeks)
BE W 		BE F5 (52 weeks)
BE F
First published: 2016
2017 Lilies FR35 (11 weeks)
FR 		BE W7 (37 weeks)
BE W 		BE F3 (51 weeks)
BE F
First published: 2017

Awards

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  1. ↑ a b c d Mélanie De Biasio - Perfect Timing ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Jazzthetik from April 28, 2014, accessed November 1, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzthetik.de
  2. ↑ a b c Short biography Mélanie De Biasio , Igloo Records, accessed November 1, 2017 (English)
  3. ↑ Jacques Prouvost: A stomach is burning , review on Citizen Jazz of September 3, 2007, accessed November 1, 2017 (French)
  4. ↑ Mwanji Ezana: A stomach is burning , review on last.fm, accessed November 1, 2017 (English)
  5. ↑ Harriet Gibsone: No Deal review - dark, transcendent songs that seem to suspend time , The Guardian, April 24, 2014, accessed November 2, 2017.
  6. ↑ Musician biography De Biasio , Allmusic , accessed November 1, 2017 (English)
  7. ↑ Full Line Up of Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Awards 2015 , accessed November 1, 2017.
  8. ↑ cf. Allmusic
  9. ↑ Track of the Year - Melanie De Biasio “Blackened Cities” ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , gillespetersonworldwide.com/ on January 27, 2017, accessed November 1, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gillespetersonworldwide.com
  10. ↑ Ulf Kubanke: Als sänge Billie Holiday at Portishead , laut.de review from October 6, 2017, accessed November 1, 2017
  11. ↑ Album of the week: Lilies by Melanie De Biasio , Radioeins October 16, 2017, accessed November 1, 2017
  12. ↑ Valentin Erning: "Lilies" Melanie De Biasio ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Reviewed in 'Intro' on September 29, 2017, accessed November 1, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.intro.de
  13. ↑ Video: Portrait - Melanie de Biasio , ttt of October 29, 2017, accessed November 1, 2017
  14. ↑ see Bandcamp profile of the musician
  15. ↑ Chart sources: FR BEW BEF
  16. ↑ Awards for music sales: BE

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SURNAME De Biasio, Melanie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Biasio, Mélanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian jazz and soul singer and flutist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Charleroi , Belgium