LoganSnake

I've really been getting into these seductive jazz-bar types of songs lately and I want more.

What I'm looking for:

- Jazz-like bass line or rhythm
- Seductive female vocals
- Male vocals okay (Leonard Cohen's voice is sexy)
- Preferably with a really nice tempo

-No Nina Simone, please. Most of her stuff is so...solemn.

Some examples of what I currently like:

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ratbastid

I went through a phase recently that was similar, but leaning slightly more electronic. These maybe don't have the bar-room smokiness, but they're hot anyway:

(Yes she sounds like Bjork. She's not Icelandic, she's from Peru. She's the Peruvian Bjork.)

(The video is montaged from the film Garden State, which used the song.)

(This song is one of the few that can bring me to tears if I really listen to it.)

EDIT: Here's one more:

LoganSnake

I like 1, 2 and 3 (Imogen Heap's Chasing Cars was on heavy rotation couple of months ago in my playlists). They are not what I'm looking for at the moment, but they're something I would listen to in their own right.

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aberkok

I think Madeline Peyroux would be a good bet.

Madeleine Peyroux

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LoganSnake

I know her and I do like her.

However, I'm looking for something with a bit more modern feel.

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Cernunnos

This might be up your alley, assuming you can deal with the absence of vocals. Bohren's Black Earth album causes me to visualize dark streets, shuffling through the pouring rain as cars blaze past, wandering between smoky bars. When the sax slides smoothly in, it's a beautiful woman in a lush red dress matching my gaze.

ratbastid

Again, I'm leaning electronic, but, this one's hard to miss:

Also, you know from DJ Spooky, right?

LoganSnake

Straight To Number One was one of my favorites last year. Basically anything from Buddha Bar compilations. It's a great piece. Completely forgot about it. It fits.

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Jetée

Alright. Preface: I'm sorry that most of my posts (anywhere on TFP) are so detailed and seemingly too long and in-depth with frivolous tidbits of information. This one shall be no different; and it's only because I believe everyone and anyone who is a friend of mine deserves my unbiased regarded opinion on such and such topic, or when I'm sharing something more intimate in nature. If I can find out any and all that I can to help, please you, expand or add to the discussion or topic currently at hand, I will truly devote 20-60 meticulous minutes in order to present it as should be: completely.

The part about the actual piece of music I'll be featuring is after the "- - - - - - -" jump; the following is just a tiny bit of backstory of how I came about it.


With that said, when was this personal topic started? A few days ago? Unbelievable, the 2nd? If you don't really know my weirdest quirk yet, I would first like to tell you that it has been a longstanding idée that whatever should happen in my life, whether it big or small, is, in fact, entwined in some sort of coincidence. This is yet another instance adding to my very lengthy and eerie timing alignments. Not particularly big, but still very cool, at least in my mind (perhaps because I have the bigger picture to see, whereas, those reading this little soliloquy, perhaps cannot readily discern where the ultimate point is going).

So, are you curious enough to discover why I'd consider this so unique a coincidence as to perhaps alienate myself by boring all those have read even this far? This is an excerpted post that I made in my barely two-month old little erotic gallery, for a picture that I had saved in my very voluminous bookmarks to which had no attributions (original author). I had decided over the weekend to try and find the source, and because it is featured, I, indeed, was able to find the creator of the image; her name is Ingrid Klein, by the way.
If you checked the user info currently below the image linked above, you'll notice the image was posted at "1:27 pm on Feb 2nd", the precise time this thread was eventually started by LoganSnake, in his own timezone, mind you.

Now, as to why this actually pertains to this thread, well, that story begins via this link to Klein's gallery: Ingrid Klein - Emotiografie
In the upper-right hand of the webpage, there is a very small media player that begins shortly after opening the gallery; that is my song recommendation to you, along with:


The Original - "Insensatez", composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim




The Downloadable One w/ female lyrics, translated (which you might prefer given your outline via OP..vocals, I meant)



The Jam Instrumental



and finally,
The History of The Song, as well as those whom have covered it over the decades.


-- Here's hoping I covered all the bases and that you most thoroughly enjoy it.

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ratbastid

Coincidence is spooky, even when you realize it's just coincidence. It riles something up in the deep lizardy portions of our brains.

Jobim definitely deserves mention in a thread about smoky jazzy barroom music. My favorite of his is "Águas de Março", or "Waters of March".

Here's Elis Regina doing the original Portugese version:

And the HIGHLY crushworthy Jane Monheit doing it live and substantially more "up". She takes it just a tad more laid-back on her album version, but this is still quite nice, and the arrangement, with the karate-chop key change and the extended cadenza toward the end, is fucking inspired:

LoganSnake

Jetée, I actually have a very jazzy instrumental How Insensitive on one of my playlists, but for some reason didn't think about it in this case. Thanks for the reminder.

I can't listen to the female vocal version yet since it says that the download limit has been reached.

Thanks for the suggestions, rat. I'll give them a listen.

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Jetée

Here's another link then: DivShare File - How Insensitive.mp3

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LoganSnake

That one works great, thanks.

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