Language of Love [Import]

Carol Welsman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 8, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Columbia Japan
• ASIN: B00018GZYG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,151,911 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Taking a Chance On Love

2. You Take Me Away

3. On a Slow Boat To China

4. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

5. Can't Help Falling In Love

6. Just One of Those Things

7. Coracao Leviano

8. Every Breath You Take

9. A Fool I Know

10. There's No Such Thing as Love

11. The Man I Love

12. Chanson De Maxence

13. Senza Fine

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A talent deserving wider recognition, January 3, 2004

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groucho "groucho_nc" (Chapel Hill, NC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Language of Love (Audio CD)

Just like Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now and Christiane Noll's A Broadway Love Story, Welsman's 2002 release is about the arc of love told through a series of songs to convey the perfect shade of excitement, drunkenness of love, heartbreak and a resolution to be wise the second time around. Welsman's song choices are interesting because unlike Mitchell and Noll's hopefulness that love might be back again and can be experienced more maturely, Welsman hinted that her love (told through song) came out much better than the torchiness of the previous ladies. And her voice has this quality that keeps on eluding safe comparisons. In her bouncy and groovy version of Taking a Chance on Love I thought she was channelling Nancy Wilson. Then in her heartbreakingly direct There's No Such Thing As Love I thought she nailed the best vocal qualities of Ruth Cameron. She sounded like Diana Krall in her lower registers especially her breathy phrasing in a song like Can't Help Falling in Love. She makes you remember Marilyn Scott in a On A Slow Boat To China via Dee Dee Bridgewater. Her voice shows a different shade song after song that seems to slowly display a vocal virtuousity she seems uncomfortable to utilize. And yes, that elusive quality of her voice is a demonstration of what she can do vocally -- to bring her vocal instrument to places in the service of a song. She may turn out to be my great discovery of the year. And I especiallyliked her idiomatic French accent in You Must Believe in Spring titled here as Chanson de Maxence. And has anyone heard of a contemporary blues version of Gershwin's The Man I Love. Not since Ella Fitzgerald's bossa nova version of it and Kate Bush's haunting performance of the song, have I been excited. This album is a definite-must.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ... and she plays piano, September 13, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Language of Love (Audio CD)

I bought this CD because of the high praise given it by Amazon reviewers. I listened through in the car with the usual trepidation one feels buying a CD by an unfamiliar artist and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the music - innovative arrangements and a captivating voice; great pitch, range, tonal colour, feel and a precise ear for languages (the French version of Michel Legrand's "You Must Believe in Spring" is to die for). There's so much musical variety on the album, I can't imagine ever getting bored with it. Then I got time to sit and read the liner notes. Carol accompanies herself on piano - and she's great! I agree - Karrin Allyson and Diana Krall had better watch their backs. I don't know where Carol's been hiding, but it's time the world recognised a great talent.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A major talent, February 21, 2003

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"anorek" (Slingerlands, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Language of Love (Audio CD)

Let me be the first to jump on the band wagon in praise of Carol Welsman. She is a major talent. A very clean voice that sparkles with wit and control. The CD contains exceptional music. "Taking a Chance On Love" and "Every Breath You Take" are given daring arrangements that hit the mark. She is the real thing!