Male vocals, dramatic (sung) story-telling. Originally written for a live theater project, and you can feel it. Vaudeville and klezmer, as delivered by a singer/songwriter. Feels of the old world, smoky bars filled with absinthe rather than Coors lite. Not an entirely polished sound, but if you dig experimental/geeky love of lyrics, play on.
Songs adapted from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. The poems were about decadence and eroticism, but this performance is less sexy and more poetic/contemplative. Baudelaire was prosecuted and fined for the indecency of his lyrics (but that was in another age - should be FCC clear). If you like poetry, you might get a kick out of Schoen’s thoughtful translations. This album is very much about the words, with music/vocalizing as a solid backdrop. No FCCs detected.
1. Male voice and violin, acoustic feel
* 2. French cabaret feel, almost a hint of alternative klezmer/Russian jazz bands.
3. A dance beat (tarantella? Tango?), plaintive violin solo
4. Some brass
* 5. electric guitar
*6. Contemporary shock of sound, female vocals added for duet, a bit dissonant (not in a great way). Musicality suddenly takes a more prominent role.
7. Folk feel, electric guitars
8. piano, female vocals, crackly sound of old vinyl
*9. duet, accordion, up-tempo
10. electric guitar, folk/rock
11. mellow, down-tempo
12. ballad feel
13. Rocking
**14. Folk, playful – fun lyrics!
15. down-tempo