She received Canada’s Juno Award, the highest musical honour, for her album Seule ce soir winning for best Jazz Vocal Recording in 2013. A show is in the works for the city’s eponymous Jazz Festival in 2016, and in February, a performance at Toronto’s legendary Massey Hall will be a heart-felt homecoming.Įmilie-Claire Barlow released first album ‘ Sings‘ in 1998. Montreal is Barlow’s new home, another change that resulted from the arctic experience.
In November she’ll be one of the artists featured during the 20th anniversary celebrations at Montreal’s Upstairs Jazz Bar. Her work as a band leader and producer has been recognized with a Juno Award nomination for Producer of Year for her recording Clear Day featuring the. There are shows and tours planned over the next year. “At the opening of ‘On a Clear Day’ you’ll hear these very dramatic cellos and this high pling pling pling of the piano and that’s basically representing the moment when I’m on the helicopter and I’m going to land on the ship.” The accompaniment of the Dutch-based Orkest Metropole magnifies the cinematic quality. She describes the songs as the soundtrack to her life. The songs were chosen for their verisimilitude to her own experiences over the past few years.
‘Clear Day’ is made up of her versions of great tunes by groups and artists from the Beatles to Cold Play and David Bowie, to name a few. “I think that the experience of being there in the Arctic and just feeling the hugeness and the wonder of the world made me brave enough to look inside and realize that there was a part of my life that was feeling not aligned… It became the path that is this record.” Listen © Jacques BoissinotĪccepting an invitation to join a group of researchers at work aboard the Coast Guard ship, The Amundsen, during the summer of 2011, Barlow and her guitar player provided entertainment in exchange for an experience she says was life-changing. The Amundsen, a Canadian Coast Guard ship and ice-breaker in the Actic waters off Canada’s north coast. It features the Dutch jazz and pop orchestra Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules. The Toronto born-and- raised singer, and voice actor, says this one began on an August night with the midnight sun. Clear Day is the 11th album by Canadian jazz vocalist Emilie-Claire Barlow. The album was produced and arranged by Barlow and Steve Webster (bassist) with orchestration by the duo as well as three orchestrations by Shelly Berger and two orchestrations by John Metcalfe (composer) arranger for Peter Gabriel's New Blood Orchestra.Emilie-Claire Barlow is releasing her 11th album, ‘Clear Day’, and a Canadian ice-breaker played a major role. The important thing was that the song needed to convey that particular moment in time." The record also features a 70-piece Metropole Orkest, expanded from the usual 52 piece line up. Emilie-Claire Barlow with The Metropole OrkestĮmilie-Claire Barlow, Steve Webster (bassist)Ĭlear Day is a "mélange of folk and rock staples" with songs by "artists spanning all genres and time periods, from Brad Mehldau to Coldplay." The album is a narrative with each song telling part of her personal story - "Each song represents my state of mind, a turning point, a crossroad.
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