Lehet, hogy rajtam kívül már mindenki olvasta. Ha nem, olvassátok el. ( Az Unofficialről vettem le )
"I'm one of those people who don't belong anywhere"
With the romantic sensuality of The Cappuccino Songs Tanita Tikaram put a resolute end to her often quite sombre musical past. Younger than before, the 28-year old singer starts the second part of her career. "It was about time to bring out the ABBA-side of my personality" by Oene Kummer
"I was much older then
I'm younger than that now"
BOB DYLAN * 'My back pages'
Exactly ten years ago, in 1988, a only eightteen year old Tikaram breaks through to the big audience with the singles Good Tradition and Twist In My Sobriety, both coming from her debutalbum Ancient Heart. An appropriate title, for inspite of her age the youthfull singer-songwriter, who lives in England but whose roots lie in Fiji and Borneo, appears to have and old soul. Her songs are poetic of nature, her voice heavy as lead. Admirers call her an early adult, critics see an elderly teenager. However it may be, with four million copies sold, Ancient Heart is a cash-succes. How does T.T. (pronounce: Tie Tie) now look back at her lightning start ? "I think I had the luck of beingn such a serious child, because I let all attention just sort off pass me by. Only around '92, '93 it started to get though to me what all had happened. Then I felt a delayed shock-effect. But I slept through the earthquake itself." The (too) quickly after each other recorded albums that followed Ancient Heart; The Sweet Keeper (1990), Everybody's Angel (1991) and Eleven Kinds Of Lonelineness (1992) make, both artistically and commercially, gradually lessening impressions. The after a much needed rest-pause recorded Lovers In The City is a brave attempt to stop the decline, but the stilled result, with programmed drums next to neo-classic strings, is hardly noticed. Record-company Warner has by then long and gone written off the once so enthousiastically launched Tanita Tikaram and refuses to further support her attempts to re-invent herself. "I got clear signals that they found it inappropriate that I wanted to change musical style. That's about the worst thing you can say to an artist. But anyway, record-labels just are like banks: they just want to make a lot of money in a safe way. And Warner may very well be the worst of them. Although this only really got through to me when a friend in New York told me that even little children, who are just rookies in the music-business, know that you shouldn't sign with Warner. Then I felt like a bit of a fool." With a finishing Best Of-compilation her contract gets resolved. "After that I started to enjoy life much more. I did exiting things, like visiting museums, but I also went dancing and partying. I felt much younger then in the years before. If I was to make a new record, it had to reflect some of that happiness. I love the music of Leonard Cohen and Van Morrison, but at the same time I've always been a great ABBA fan. It was about time to bring out the ABBA-side of my personality."
"It's funny but I had no sense
Of living without aim
The day before you came"
ABBA * 'The day before you came'
And so it doesn't have to surprise one that a cover of ABBA's The Day Before You Came graces The Cappuccino Songs. "I find it to be a song with a strong erotic charge. It's clear that the person who has entered the singer's life, turned her whole life upside down. She sounds as if she has had her brains screwed out. But maybe it's just my perverted mind that wants to hear that in it. But that's why it fits so well between the other songs. Because The Cappuccino Songs mainly contains songs which breathe a sweet longing. 'Songs of seduction'. There are also tracks on it that are about the less pleasant things in relations, but the game of seducing and being seduced, has well been the greatest source of inspiration. Nothing is more pleasant than to go and drink a cup of cappuccino with a nice person and then just see how the meeting develops. The biggest kick for me is the moment that you know you're going to sleep with someone. The sex afterwards may be a real dissapointment after that, but the sensation that proceeds it, is just the best." Tanita Tikaram wrote almost all her Cappuccino Songs together with Marco Sabiu, a producer who, among others, worked with Kylie Minogue, Take That and Moby. The fact that Marco was of Italian descent, was more important however. "I love Italians and, eh, Italians quite like me also, in general. That's what my partner says anyway. I just found it important that it 'clicked' personally. Marco and I, we soon discovered that we find the same people and things sexy and that we share a slightly perverse sense of humour. Those are the things that are important. That he, next to all that, also is a classically trained musician and knows his way around in the studio, is of course a nice bonus. He made me sing much higher with my heavy voice than I ever deemed possible. And perhaps because we really wrote the songs together, I didn't feel stressed for one moment if they would be good enough, something I do have when I work alone. When people don't like it now, I'll just pass them through to him. Or not?"
"I'm happy to be here"
TANITA TIKARAM * 'Stop Listening'
Tanita Tikaram is happy to be back amongst the people, so it appears from the opening sentence of the first song on The Cappuccino Songs. Although the, also released on single, Stop Listening in principle is a song about the relation of two people who still love each other, but have nothing left to say, with some good will it can also be seen as a song about the relation between an artist (who has been away for a while) and her audience (who might have forgotten her). Sentences like "Stop listening...start feeling I'm here...I'll always be there," then get an unexpected double meaning. T.T: "That surely is a way in which you can interpret it. I'm alway very curious if these kind of coded messages really get across to the listener. I can imagine that people just put up the CD, start doing the dishes and don't realize that the first lines "I'm happy to be here/I'm happy to be with you" in fact are about my relationship with them. It remains quite an honor if people by your CD. I don't think lightly of it." The artist(e) as a housefriend? The Tanita Tikaram who presents herself as such, makes the loose, selfassured impression of someone who knows that her best time is yet to come. "I think that's because I, this time round, know how I'm made up. I'm one of those people who don't belong anywhere and nowadays I can handle it good. I'm of Asian origin, but was born in Germany and grew up in England. I've tried to feel English, but I've, also because of my descent and the prejudice I've encountered, never felt at home in England. I prefer living on the European mainland. There I feel more at ease, just because I'm a stranger there." Stop Listening a song bathing in a sea of swirling and waving strings, is exemplary for the goods offered on The Cappuccino Songs. Was T.T. aware that mid-1998 it would be very fashionable to work with strings? "No, but also for me it isn't the first time that I'm doing it. That's why I didn't think about it any further. I'm not surprised that it was just Madonna who was among the first to make violins hip again. She has a nose for those kind of things." T.T. appears to have a lot of appreciation for Madonna, perhaps also because La Ciccone in a recent interview mentioned to have listed a lot to La Tanita's albums. "Well, she just always had good taste, hasn't she?"
Although The Cappuccino Songs is a real pop-record, which, in spite of some modern aproaches, has little to do with dance, T.T. does have an outspoken opinion about why many contemporary dance acts are busy with strings at the moment. Resolute: "Strings are the only instruments which have enough warmth to compensate the coldness of those mechanical beats." With which T.T. doesn't want to say that she dislikes dance. On the contrary. "But instead of listening to something purposely difficult like intelligent bass - just the name of it, my goodness - I rather dance till I drop on something simple and soulful of Ultra Nate." She puts her words into action and starts to sing full-out: "You're free.... to do what you want to do!" T.T. grabbed the freedom to experiment with her own music with both hands, when she got hold of a record of the Finnish folkgroup Varttina. The sampled result can be heard in the song I Don't Wanna Lose At Love. "They're in the credits as co-writers, but i've never met them. I'm curious what they think of the song. Next to a new album, T.T. also found a new record-label (the once U2-founded Mother records, now mainly known because of Bjork) and, dare we say it, created a new personality for herself. But, in a time when Sharleen Spiteri of Texas is comfortably writhing herself against Method Man from Wu-Tang Clan and Natalie Imbruglia is allready lasting longer than many ever deemed possible, is there still a place for an other, still quite young, singer with brown hair and dito eyes? Tanita Tikaram is making a noticeably relaxed impression when she philosophisies about her chances. "It may be the Asian woman within me that can't be too bothered with that. I want to have fun in what I do, but it's not in me to get into drugs if things don't go the way I'd hoped. I'll never have the idea that I've failed because I had my biggest succes at eightteen. That just had to be, I think then. And after that it's time for a nice cup of cappuccino again."
A számok jók, bár van ami kicsit nehezebben emészthető, mint a többi. Elsőre. A számok, amik nincsenek rajta egyik albumon se, nagyon érdekesek, meg szerintem különböznek is a többitől. Nekem nagyon tetszenek. Ki kéne adni egy albumot, amin csak az ilyenek lennének rajta:
Tanita Tikaram - Songs from an Invisible Album :)
A cdk minősége nagyon jó, egy szavam se lehet. És gyors is volt, nem csak a levegőbe kaptam az ígéreteket!
A mixek, hát... ő... megmondom őszintén, én nem szeretem azt, ha egy szenit megpróbálnak utánozni.
:) lol ;) :P :D
A minőségük, mármint a hang tökéletes. Van egy rész, a koncert-felvételes, na az valami ***** jó! Annyira édes amikor elmondja, hogy mi micsoda!
Várjad csak, várjad. Én tegnap éjjel átvettem az egyik cdt kazira, amin a lets make everybody smile today van és ma egész nap azt hallgattam a kocsiban meg a suliban ballagás után meg mindnehol.
Ma elhoztam HorseTiertől azt a 4 cdt, ami tartalmazza azokat a számokat, amik nekem nincsenek meg.
Mivel most értem haza, sok időm nem volt belehallgatni, de nagyon jó a minősége.
HT nagyon kedves és rendes volt, köszönöm. Az egész órán azt vártam, hogy érjek már haza és hallgathassam a cdket, meg azt, hogy megjöjjön az ötödik cd. Na nem mintha ne lenne elég hallgatnivalóm a hétre:)
Szóval ha valaki szeretne cdket venni, NYUGODTAN tegye!
Andris
P.S. HT-nek:
Mégegyszer köszönöm! Aztán jutott eszembe, hogy hagyhattam volna még ott pénzt azért, hogy a bookletet is lemásold. Na mindegy, majd ha találkozunk, megkérlek rá. Mellesleg ha kellene neked valami, ami nekem meg van, szólj. ( Bár nem hinném, hogy lenne valami olyan, hacsak a kották vagy a poster nem érdekel:) )
Az én telefonszámom:
06-20-ab-cd-482
a: az Amore si sorszáma a TCS albumon
b: ennyi TT album van a best of nélkül!
cd: a dalok száma a TCS-n szorozva HATTAL (a remix nélkül)
Én benne vagyok a Péntek estében, de mikor?És hol?
Az If I ever jó, de szerintem nem az a legjobb. A light is nagyon tetszik, meg a day before meg az i like this. Az if i ever meg a knew valahogy olyan infantilis egy kicsit. De tetszenek azok is persze!!!!
Elég tűrhetően sikerült.
Az Only One Boy-jal bezárólag minden szám a saját kislemezeimről származik, a többit úgy másolták nekem, de azoknak is viszonylag jó a minősége.
Tervezek még egy ötödik CD-t, amire felveszem az Ancient Heart koncervideót (csak a hangot, de azt sztereóban), valamint teszek majd rá néhány vizuális dolgot (=meglepetés!).
Ha valaki szeretne kapni az első négy CD-ből, írjon nekem. Pár érdeklődő már van, majd ha ők megkapják gondolom elmondják, hogy szerintük milyen.
Megpróbálok idevarázsolni egy listát arról a négy CD-ről, amit az albumokon nem szereplő Tanita számokból állítottam össze. Ha sikerül, utána írok hozzá egy kis körítést is.
CD1
Lemez címe_ Szám címe Idő
Good Tradition_ Valentine Heart (Demo) 0:03:54
Twist In My Sobriety_ Twist In My Sobriety (Edit) 0:03:55
Twist In My Sobriety_ Friends 0:02:17
Twist In My Sobriety_ The Kill In Your Heart 0:03:43
Cathedral Song_ Let's Make Everybody Smile Today (Live) 0:03:40
Cathedral Song_ Over You All (Live) 0:03:35
World Outside Your Window_ World Outside Your Window (Remix) 0:03:40
World Outside Your Window_ Good Tradition (Live) 0:03:02
World Outside Your Window_ He Likes The Sun (Live) 0:05:31
World Outside Your Window_ For All These Years (Instrumental) 0:05:12
We Almost Got It Together_ Over You All (Studio Version) 0:03:20
We Almost Got It Together_ Rose On Wood 0:04:30
Little Sister Leaving Town_ I Love The Heaven's Solo (Demo) 0:02:53
Little Sister Leaving Town_ Hot Pork sandwiches (Demo) 0:04:13
Little Sister Leaving Town_ Twist In My Sobriety (Live) 0:04:50
Thursday's Child_ Cathedral Song (Live in Norway) 0:03:22
Only The Ones We Love_ Cathedral Song (Instrumental) 0:03:52
I Love The Heaven's Solo_ I Love The Heaven's Solo (Single Version) 0:03:00
I Love The Heaven's Solo_ Only In Name 0:03:08
You Make The Whole World Cry_ Me, You And Lucifer 0:03:37
1:15:14
CD2
You Make The Whole World Cry_ Rock Me 'Til I Stop 0:04:31
I Might Be Crying_ Five Feet Away 0:04:10
I Might Be Crying_ Not Waving But Drowning 0:03:52
Wonderful Shadow_ Wonderful Shadow (Edit) 0:03:37
Wonderful Shadow_ Wonderful Shadow (Reconstructed Version) 0:06:25
Wonderful Shadow_ Have You Lost Your Way? 0:13:18
Yodelling Song_ Yodelling Song 0:03:00
Twist In My Sobriety - The Remixes_ Tikaramp Radio 0:04:25
Twist In My Sobriety - The Remixes_ Phil Kelsey Vocal 0:09:41
Twist In My Sobriety - The Remixes_ Extended Bumps Fluidity Mix 0:05:15
Twist In My Sobriety - The Remixes_ Tikaramp Vocal 0:06:51
Twist In My Sobriety - The Remixes_ SFX Sobriety Mix 0:06:55
1:12:00
CD3
Stop Listening_ Stop Listening (Radio Edit) 0:03:54
Stop Listening_ Feeling Is Gone 0:03:23
Stop Listening_ Stop Listening (Director's Cut) 0:07:30
Stop Listening_ Twist In My Sobriety (1998) 0:03:18
Stop Listening_ Good Tradition (1998) 0:03:29
I Don't Wanna Lose At Love_ I Don't Wanna Lose At Love (Radio Version) 0:03:56
I Don't Wanna Lose At Love_ I Don't Wanna Lose At Love (Love Loss ADF Remix) 0:04:28
I Don't Wanna Lose At Love_ I Don't Wanna Lose At Love (XT Talvin Singh Mix) 0:07:18
I Don't Wanna Lose At Love_ In Your Time 0:03:46
If I Ever_ Only One Boy In The Crowd 0:03:39
B-sides and collaborations_ I Never Will Know (Mark Isham) 0:06:12
B-sides and collaborations_ Blue Moon (Mark Isham) 0:04:27
B-sides and collaborations_ Loving You 0:02:16
B-sides and collaborations_ I'm Looking Up To You (Christie Hennesey) 0:04:28
B-sides and collaborations_ The Redemption Song [Oh Happy Day] (Moodswings) 0:06:22
B-sides and collaborations_ That's Why I'm Leaving Here (Brendan Crocker) 0:02:20
B-sides and collaborations_ Je Te Voudrais Quand Meme (Pierre Schott) 0:03:47
1:14:33
CD4
Live In York, 12/05/1995_ You Make The Whole World Cry 0:03:24
Live In York, 12/05/1995_ Men And Women 0:03:36
Live In York, 12/05/1995_ Hot Stones 0:03:19
Live In York, 12/05/1995_ Out On The Town 0:03:28
Live In York, 12/05/1995_ Feeding The Witches 0:05:23
Live In York, 12/05/1995_ Happy Taxi 0:05:16
Live In York, 12/05/1995_ Heal You 0:04:45
Live In York, 12/05/1995_ Elephant 0:03:45
Live In York, 12/05/1995_ World Outside Your Window 0:05:09
Live In York, 12/05/1995_ Twist In My Sobriety 0:05:19
Live In York, 12/05/1995_ Good Tradition 0:03:10
Live In York, 12/05/1995_ Yodelling Song 0:03:31
Live In York, 12/05/1995_ Preyed Upon 0:05:46
B-sides and collaborations_ Fireflies In The Kitchen (live) 0:03:38
B-sides and collaborations_ Domino (live) 0:03:35
B-sides and collaborations_ Something Tells Me I'm Into Something Good (live) 0:03:38
B-sides and collaborations_ You Sexy Thing (live) 0:04:09
B-sides and collaborations_ Little Sister Leaving Town (Acoustic 2 Meter Sessie) 0:03:43
1:14:34
