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A late addition to this years Q4 schedule sees the release of a new album from one of our most rever |
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Tuesday, 05 October 2010 |
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The album, entitled, ‘Bare Bones’ is essentially a live stripped back Best Of album comprising of recordings taken from Bryan’s concerts in Spring 2010 and is scheduled for release on November 8. Bio & Press Release attached. The tracklisting includes tracks from all points in Bryan’s illustrious career: 1. You‘ve Been A Friend To Me 2. Here I Am 3. I‘m Ready 4. Lets Make A Night To Remember 5. It Ain‘t A Party 6. (Everything I Do) I Do It For You 7. Cuts Like A Knife 8. Please Forgive Me 9. Summer Of 69 10. Walk On By 11. Cloud Number 9 12. It‘s Only Love 13. Heaven 14. T he Right Place 15. T he Way You Make Me Feel 16. Only Thing T hat Looks Good On Me Is You 17. You‘re Still Beautiful To Me 18. Straight From T he Heart 19. I Still Miss You...A Little Bit
20. All For Love Here are Bryan’s liner notes to further explain the concept “This album was compiled from concerts in the spring of 2010 on what I called "the Bare Bones tour". These shows started as an experiment in 2008 with just an acoustic guitar partially to promote my album at the time, but also because it had been on my mind since I recorded my MTV "unplugged" album back in 1996 to do something like that again some day, but maybe even more pared down, to just the voice and guitar. After all, the songs on this compilation all started in a room somewhere with me sitting there working the song out on a guitar, but the intention would have been that they'd be recorded with the band. It didn't occur to me until doing the Unplugged show, that it was possible to see the songs in a different light, to perform them in a different way. Fast forward to now, 2010 and the touring is going strong, and I've added Gary Breit on piano to accompany me. Which brings me to this CD; as the tour rolled across the USA and Canada, many people were asking for a recording of the songs as they had just heard the show - raw. So in response to that, I decided to record a few shows to see if a recording was even interesting. Listening to it now as we are mixing, I like the way the songs carry themselves warts and all, bare boned, without the original arrangements of a full band or an orchestra. Apart from my Martin guitar, my harmonica and Gary on piano these recordings only have the voices and handclaps of the fans in the audience and the ambience of the room to lift them. Some of the songs selected here were selected by surveying fans on Twitter and through www.bryanadams.com, and I'm sorry I couldn't get all the requests on, but there was an overwhelming consensus for a mixture of old and rare, and for the known and something new. So here you go, i hope you enjoy the music as much as I did making it and performing it. My thanks to all the people that worked on the shows to make them happen, and to the fans that came out to the shows and endured my long winded stories, attempted humour, and other snippets about my life, the music and the road” |
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The Best of Nelly Furtado |
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Tuesday, 05 October 2010 |
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ACCLAIMED SINGER-SONGWRITER’S FIRST RETROSPECTIVE, FEATURES ALL HER HITS PLUS FAN FAVORITES AND THREE NEW SONGS, INCLUDING “NIGHT IS YOUNG” Multi-platinum-selling, Grammy-winning global superstar, actress, philanthropist and recent Canadian “Walk of Fame” inductee, Nelly Furtado, will celebrate her first 10 years of recording with her first greatest hits compilation, The Best Of Nelly Furtado (Geffen Records). The album, to be released November 22nd, features #1 Pop smashes, collaborations and three previously unreleased recordings and will be available in standard and double-disc deluxe editions. Of the previously unreleased recordings, “Night Is Young,” the album’s first single, was co-produced by Salaam Remi (Nas, The Fugees, Amy Winehouse) and Staybent Krunk-A-Delic, and co-written by Nelly Furtado. Producer Remi and Furtado also co-wrote “Girlfriend” while “Stars,” was produced by Lester Mendez who co-wrote the track with Furtado. The Best Of Nelly Furtado looks back at a simply sensational and genuinely global first decade for the acclaimed Canadian-born singer-songwriter of Portuguese heritage. She has won and/or been nominated for seven Grammy awards, has a BRIT Award win, and has been awarded numerous Junos (Canada’s equivalent of the Grammy), including Album Of The Year for Loose as well as an MTV Europe Music Award. Furthermore, she has been nominated for a handful of Billboard Latin Music Awards and a Grammy for her groundbreaking 2009 album Mi Plan that further solidifies her vibrant and successful career as a dual language superstar. Embracing different cultures, musical styles and even languages, Nelly Furtado has helped define musical diversity for a new generation. Nelly’s eclectic 2000 double platinum debut Whoa, Nelly! which spawned “I’m Like A Bird” was followed by the gold 2003 Folklore, whose “Forca” became the official anthem of the 2004 European Cup Football Championship. 2006’s double platinum, #1-debuting Loose spotlighted the platinum, Grammy-nominated “Promiscuous” along with the hits “Say It Right” and “Maneater.” Loose has been certified platinum in 32 countries and sold nearly 10 million copies worldwide and won the 2007 Brit Award for the International Female Solo Artist. In 2009, Mi Plan, her first album entirely in Spanish, made history when the single “Manos al Aire” soared to #1 on Billboard’s “Hot Latin Songs” chart, marking it the highest debut of 2009 for Latin Pop album and the first time a North American artist had reached the top spot with a song originally written in Spanish. The album went on to be a #1 hit on Billboard’s “Top Latin Album,” as well as ITunes and Amazon Latin music charts. In 2010, Nelly joined producer Bob Ezrin and Young Artists For Haiti in singing K’NAAN’s “Wavin’ Flag” where all proceeds go to Free The Children, War Child Canada and World Vision Canada. A video for “Night Is Young” will be available in the near future. Furtado’s highly anticipated fifth original album will be released in early 2011. |
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Annie Lennox Launches Album in London's Mayfair |
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Tuesday, 05 October 2010 |
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Annie Lennox is back with a rare offering, an album collection of Christmas Carols drawn from British, French and German traditions, which is released through Island Records on November 22nd. A Christmas Cornucopia also includes one new, self-penned track, "Universal Child". The album playback launch took place in London's Mayfair on September 28th with a performance from Lennox which captivated the media. There has already been coverage in UK newspapers Daily Star and Daily Record of the event and an interview and short piece of performance went out in local news programme London Tonight on September 29th http://www.youtube.com/watchv=cfVA6G8gr1k&feature=player_embedded) Island's Liv Nunn is working the album and she describes the event: "Recreating Christmas in September felt like a slightly odd thing to be doing but was completely fitting for this album launch," she says. "We transformed the room into a Victorian, Dickensian living room, reminiscent of "A Christmas Carol", complete with real Christmas trees, cloves, cinnamon sticks, mulled wine and mince pies – the smell was potent as you walked in." "After a playback of the whole new album, A Christmas Cornucopia: a fantastic collection of Annie's interpretations of classic Christmas carols, plus one new track "Universal Child" – the first single ...we all witnessed an absolute treat. Annie performed five of her classic tracks at the piano, truly showcasing her voice and cementing her legendary iconic status!" Island will create a promo video of the carol "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" which is due for release the week before Christmas. The music on the album was mostly played by Lennox, in collaboration with co-producer Mike Stevens, and recorded in his southwest London studio – at the bottom of his garden. But to achieve the resonance and vibrancy that were integral to Lennox's ideas for these re-energized reboots, the pair also worked with a 30-piece orchestra at Pinewood Studios. And they travelled further afield too: to South Africa, to record with the African Children's Choir, a remarkable organization with which impassioned campaigner and activist Lennox has long had a relationship. All the income that from Universal Child will be paid to the Annie Lennox Foundation which raises money for projects supporting and educating women and children in Africa with HIV/AIDS. |
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