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05 Oct 2010, 23:26
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YAZOO 'RECONNECTED LIVE' ALBUM RELEASED THIS WEEK
Yazoo’s new album, 'Reconnected Live' (released under the name Yaz in the USA), is out now as a standard 2-CD set, a limited edition 2-CD deluxe edition contained in a 32-page hardback book, and via digital download. If you fancy a listen then there are six tracks from the album ('Nobody's Diary', 'State Farm', 'Only You', 'Ode To Boy', 'Don't Go' and 'Situation') streaming online right now over at the Yazoo website, enjoy!
TRACKLISTING - CD1: Nobody’s Diary, Bad Connection, Mr. Blue, Good Times, Tuesday, Ode To Boy, Goodbye ’70s, Too Pieces, In My Room, Anyone, Walk Away From Love. CD2: State Farm, Sweet Thing, Winter Kills, Midnight, Unmarked, Bring Your Love Down (Didn’t I), Don’t Go, Only You, Situation. You can now buy the 'Reconnected Live' album online on CD from our friends Mute Bank and Lexer Music, as well as from Amazon in the UK and in the USA, from iTunes around the world - including iTunes UK and iTunes USA - as well as from all good online and offline retailers. ANDY BELL 'NON-STOP' SINGLE - 'DIGITAL DOG' REMIX PREVIEW
As you know, Andy will release 'Non-Stop', the title track from the current album of the same name, as a single on October 11th, and as the countdown to that release begins I have uploaded an extract of the 'Digital Dog Radio Edit' remix to Andy's website for you to have a listen to??? enjoy!
TRACKLISTING - Non-Stop - Original Version, Non-Stop - Digital Dog Radio Edit, Non-Stop - Digital Dog Club Edit, Non-Stop - instrumental Version, Flying Colours, Say What You Want (Joy Joy Mix) VINCE CLARKE PRESENTS 'SOMETHING FOR A RAINY DAY'...
There's a new Erasure instrumental entitled 'Symphony' online for you at VinceClarkeMusic.com, and if anybody out there fancies making a video for the track we'd love to see it. It could be an animation; a collection of stills; or maybe an epic science fiction classic in the style of 'Star Wars'. We can offer no incentive to make a little film other than???it might be a laugh! You can have a listen to 'Symphony' on Vince's website, and if the inspiration takes you and you want to download it then you can do that too. 'Symphony' will be available until the end of October and we'll showcase the best ones online after October 31st. Have fun... YAZOO 'RECONNECTED LIVE' COMPETITIONS
To celebrate the release of Yazoo's 'Reconnected Live' this week, we’re very pleased to be running special competitions for you this week on The official Yazoo, Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet websites that will see nine lucky winners (three on each website!) each receive a fantastic 'Reconnected Live' prize consisting of a deluxe edition of the 'Reconnected Live' album plus two extremely limited-edition art prints; one featuring the original lighting concept for Yazoo’s ‘Reconnected’ tour (below); the other featuring a setlist from the tour; both of which are autographed by both Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet! See those websites for all the details. ASK ANDY??? 'NON-STOP' Q&A SESSION
To mark the release of the 'Non-Stop' single Andy has agreed to do a special 'Ask Andy' Q&A session for his website so if you have any questions for him then please email them over in the next few days and I will get Andy to answer as many of them as he can. We'll be concentrating mostly on the 'Non-Stop' project but I'm sure I'll be able to squeeze in a few others too, so feel free to ask anything! VINCE CLARKE WORKING WITH MARTIN GORE
If you follow Vince's updates, either on the studio page of his website or via his Twitter feed or Facebook page, then you will already know that he is collaborating with his former Depeche Mode bandmate on some new material, however yesterday The Quietus put an extract from a new interview with Vince online with a few more details. The entire interview - which mostly revolves around the release of Yazoo's 'Reconnected Live' album but also promises to touch upon the current Erasure project - will go online shortly but in the meantime you can get more details from the news section on the official Vince Clarke website! ANDY BELL - LONDON DJ DATE
Andy will return to the London club The Eagle on on October 29th to play a special DJ set, see the news section on his website for more details. |
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05 Oct 2010, 23:20
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 | Annie Lennox completes 'A Christmas Cornucopia' a collection of new, inspired interpretations of 11 traditional festive songs, rounded out by a new Lennox composition, Universal Child.
A Christmas Cornucopia will be released globally on November 15th 2010
Be the first to pre-order your copy of the album now:  (Sept 27th 2010) "All the income that I earn from Universal Child will be paid to the Annie Lennox Foundation." Universal Child is the first single which will be release in the UK on the 12th October.
The Annie Lennox Foundation, raises money for projects supporting and educating women and children in Africa with HIV/AIDS.
"I've known these songs, these carols all my life, I've sung them since I was little," says the songwriter and singer of The Holly And The Ivy, Silent Night, The First Noel and other, less-widely-known songs such as Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant, and Lullay Lullay. "They're just in me. They're a huge part of my life. So it's not an arbitrary selection. Those relationships with those pieces of music were there intrinsically before I approached the recording."
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.
"There are 34 different choirs. They're like a big extended family - the people who work with them, their careers, are called aunties and uncles. And it's so precious - if you asked them, as we did with these eight and nine year olds, 'how is your life different now that you're in the choir?' They would say things like, 'Now I get really good food to eat.' Or, 'Now I wear nice clothes.'
"I had met them several times before, through 44664 (Nelson Mandela's HIV AIDS foundation) - we had this ongoing connection, and I felt that if I was to record any children's voices it had to be theirs."
A Christmas Cornucopia is no saccharine packaged selection box. As befits its title, it offers an abundance of songs - drawn from British, French and German traditions - and a host of ideas. On Lullay Lullay, "a lullaby I've known for years and the darkest carol I think," Lennox draws direct links between the Nativity and the plight of Africa's child soldiers. "Lullay Lullay alludes to the killing of first-born boy children by King Herod...and going back more deeply into the story of the song, I kept getting images of child soldiers in my head...The violation of children is endemic in many so places. Even though this carol is ancient, the brutality of the subject matter is just as relevant today.
Vibrant but vintage, classic and contemporary, glorious but with a polemical edge - notably in Universal Child - A Christmas Cornucopia also marks the beginning of Annie Lennox's relationship with Universal/Island.
"The Island team were so enthusiastic, and so excited to be working with me, and I was blown away that they felt like that. It feels very energized, and fresh and new. And that's a great feeling for me."
You can hear as much in A Christmas Cornucopia.
To learn more about 'A Christmas Cornucopia' and Annie Lennox's humanitarian work please visit: www.annielennox.com
Tracklisting
1) Angels from The Realms of Glory
2) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
3) See Amid The Winter's Snow
4) Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant
5) The First Noel
6) Lullay Lullay (Coventry Carol)
7) The Holly and The Ivy
8) In The Bleak Mid Winter 9) As Joseph Was A Walking
10) Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
11) Silent Night
12) Universal Child
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| Top 30,??September 25, 2010 | | ?? | | TW / LW / WC Artist - Song | | ?? | | 01 / (02) / (05) Hurts - Wonderful Life | | 02 / (01) / (09) christopher ANTON - Lovefix | | 03 / (05) / (04) Pete Burns - Never Mary An Icon | | 04 / (04) / (07) When In Rome - Heaven Knows (PWL Mix) | | 05 / (03) / (08) A-Ha - Butterfly, Butterfly | | 06 / (07) / (07) Alphabeat - Heatwave | | 07 / (06) / (08) Toni Braxton - Make My Heart | | 08 / (12) / (05) Kent - Gamla Ullevi | | 09 / (11) / (05) Enrique Iglesias - I Like It | | 10 / (10) / (06) Republica - Ready To Go 2010 | | 11 / (08) / (14) Hurts - Better Than Love | | 12 / (15) / (04) Paola & Chiara - Pioggia d'Estate | | 13 / (13) / (07) Kim Wilde - Lights Down Low | | 14 / (20) / (02) Armin van Buuren vs Sophie Ellis Bextor - Not Giving Up On Love | | 15 / (09) / (10) Mark Ronson - Bang Bang Bang | | 16 / (19) / (03) OMD - If You Want It | | 17 / (17) / (05) The Ark - Stay With Me | | 18 / (21) / (03) Cat Goscovitch - Mountain Talk | | 19 / (24) / (02) Robyn - Hang With Me | 20 / (14) / (11) Gossip - Pop Goes The World | 21 / (26) / (02) Ace of Base - All For You | | 22 / (16) / (11) 2 Numb 2??See - This Look In Your Eyes | | 23 / (---) / (01) The Irrepressibles - In This Shirt | | 24 / (18) / (15) Junior Caldera & Sophie Ellis Bextor - Just Can't Fight This Feeling | | 25 / (---) / (01) Hej Matematik - Legendebørn | | 26 / (27) / (03) Gotan Project - El Mensajero | | 27 / (22) / (14) Robyn - Dancing On My Own | | 28 / (23) / (12) Giovanca - Drop It | | 29 / (---) / (01) Shy'm - Je Suis Moi | | 30 / (25) / (12) Tracey Thorn - Why Does The Wind? |
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