Blow Up My World Fanny Bériaux

• 1 Albinoni's Ghost 03:52
• 2 Crowded Bar 04:16
• 3 Blow Up My World 03:50
• 4 Sixty Years Ago 03:09
• 5 Scat Cat 04:31
• 6 Behind Your Smile 04:18
• 7 Chaotic 02:50
• 8 Uluru 04:07
• 9 Magic Radio 03:41
• 10 Cezanne 03:12
• 11 I'll Rob a Bank 03:40
• 12 Mannequin 03:26
• 13 You Know Too Much 04:34
• 14 In My Bed 03:29
• 15 Unforgettable Thoughts 02:38
• Total Runtime 55:33

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Die Frage, die sich immer wieder im von massenhaften Veröffentlichungen bestimmten Tonträger-Business stellt: Wie verschafft man sich Gehör, wie erreicht man „sein“ Publikum, wie erhebt man sich über diese Flut von Neuheiten? Es ist – und so wird es auch immer sein – über kurz oder lang doch die Qualität, die zählt. Bei der 1980 in Brüssel geborenen Jazz-Sängerin ist es mit Sicherheit zunächst einmal ihre unglaubliche Stimme, die ihr Publikum finden wird: saft- und gefühlvoll in den tiefen Lagen, präzise und kraftvoll in den Höhen – doch immer ist ihre Stimme ausdrucksstark!

Darüber hinaus, und das ist auch auf ihrem nun vorliegenden Debüt-Album zu hören, gibt sich Fanny Bériaux dem, was sie singt mit Leib und Seele hin, lebt, was sie singt und kriecht buchstäblich mit ihrer Stimme in ihre Gefühle hinein.

Die Palette ihrer Emotionen reicht von sanft bis melancholisch von sexy über herzzerreißend bis hin zum gesungenen Wahnsinn – je nachdem, was das Stück erfordert. Die 15 Songs ihres ersten Albums, die alle von Jarek Frankowski komponiert wurden, haben jazzige, poppige und soulige Elemente. Sie erzählen wunderbare und verrückte Geschichten. Eine echte Neuentdeckung und wie gemacht für einen langen Winterabend daheim!

Fanny Bériaux, vocals
Jarek Frankowski, guitar
Sam Gerstmans, bass
Matthieu Van, piano, Fender Rhodes
Jérôme Baudart, drums
Jean-Paul Estievenart, trumpet

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jarek Frankowski at ACOUSTIC RECORDINGS Studio, Brussels 2007-2009
Additional recording by Daniel Leon at IGLOO Studio, Brussels (Tracks 5, 6, 12, 13)
Additional vintage mix on 'Sixty Years Ago' by David Minjauw at studio DADA, Brussels
Produced by Jarek Frankowski and Fanny Bériaux

Fanny Bériaux
The first that strikes you thing about Fanny Bériaux is her voice. Soft and sensual in the low notes, powerful and precise in the high, but also outstandingly expressive... In a generous performance, she truly lives every moment of her singing, experiencing emotions deeply, in a complete wholehearted enjoyment of her own voice from its warmest and roundest to its most delirious and heart rending expressions, while passing through a hint of nostalgia and a touch of tenderness.

Born in Brussels in 1980, she comes to feel a strong attraction for singing and experiences it already in childhood not only as a genuine pleasure, but as a physical need. Music in general also interests her, and very soon she starts to study classic piano in an academy, while spontaneously fiddling with the chords of a guitar from time to time. It is, however, very clear that singing is her natural calling, the thing which makes her tick.

At eighteen a world of possibilities opens up together with the need to choose a clear path. Fanny Bériaux will chose two: on one side, naturally, music, and on the other, university. She enters the Liège Music Conservatory where she is awarded a first prize the very first year. Simultaneously, she studies communication, while never ceasing to feel that singing is her true calling. Up until then, she had been following some singing classes, but in styles which fell short of touching her deeply. It is then that she meets Anca Parghel, a professor of vocal jazz at the Brussels Conservatory. The singer's vocal mastery fascinates her and she enters the Conservatory in 2002. There she is given her first award in vocal jazz, at the same time as she completes her degree at the university.

Two years later, amidst the serendipity of chance auditions, she meets the composer Jarek Frankowsky, who, spellbound by such a unique artist, decides to help her to release her first album. Thus « Blow Up My World » becomes available in stores in 2009. In it the singer reveals a warm and low voice, coloured with a rich palette, in songs both jazzy and of mixed influence, traveling between jazz, pop and soul. One can find in it, among many others, the influence of Madeleine Peyroux, Erykah Badu, Fiona Apple, Melody Gardot, Anita O Day...

The album is warmly received by the press, prompting a series of concerts in Belgium and in Europe (Paris, Istanbul, Sibiu, Ploiesti, Luxembourg...). The singer also performs in international festivals (Comblain Festival, Sibiu jazz festival, festival international Echternach, Gaumes jazz festival...). The public and the press continue to follow her performances with a marked and growing enthusiasm as they discovered behind the album's voice a rich and intense stage performance.

Fanny Bériaux's world is vast and stretches to the horizon. She defines herself primarily as a singer and is attracted to a variety of music. In the versatile openness which characterizes her, she takes an active part in a great number of projects and attracts proposals from artists coming from very different backgrounds. Among other things, she recorded the female voices for the theater play « La princesse Turandot » directed by Dominique Serron, sang an evening as an alto solist the Stabat Mater by Pergolèse and performed a duet with David Bartholomé (singer of Sharko) on his latest album 'Cosmic woo Woo' (2001).

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