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Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea
"The Sea" is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, released in Europe on February 01, 2010 by EMI / Virgin Music. It is the follow-up to her self-titled debut multi-platinum album and was recorded following her hiatus from the music scene, which she took in the wake of her husband Jason Rae's death.
British singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae (Corinne Jacqueline Bailey) was born on 26 February 1979 in Leeds to a Black-Kittitian father and a White-English mother as the eldest of four daughters, including Candice Bailey and actress Rhea Bailey. Corinne spent her childhood singing in church choirs, and later formed an all-girl indie-rock band called "Helen". Though they managed to sign to "Roadrunner Records" they failed to record an album, and disbanded when the bassist became pregnant. Rae decided to go to University and, while studying for an English Literature degree, she worked as a cloakroom attendant at a jazz club and developed a passion for a whole new genre of music. She started to write jazzy, soulful music and collaborated with The New Mastersounds on the track "Your Love is Mine", Homecut Directive on "Come the Revolution" and The StiX on "Young and Foolish". The collaborations brought her to the attention of the major record labels and in 2005 she released her debut single "Like a Star". Its parent album Corinne Bailey Rae, was released early the following year. Her first album - "Corinne Bailey Rae" was very successful, entering the UK chart at No.1 and spawning four Grammy nominations...D. Jeffries
After selling four million copies of her debut album, an effort filled with her precious brand of neo-soul and the uplifting hit "Put Your Records On," singer/songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae lost her husband Jason Rae suddenly and took two years off to grieve and recover before returning with her second effort, The Sea. On the album’s opener “Are You Here,” lyrics like “Wait till you see those eyes” and “He’ll kiss you make you feel sixteen” suggest she’s just fallen in love, but the fascinating idea behind The Sea is that it never explains itself, even if there’s a new richness in Rae’s soft and oh-so-tender voice that suggests something has changed deep inside. As such, the song’s “What’s it even mean?” question could be the beginning of a love affair or a tragedy, but the following “I’d Do It All Again” is even trickier, as post-argument lyrics written before her husband’s tragic loss (“You’re searching for something I know/Won’t make you happy”) take on new meaning . Further confusing the matter, throughout the album the singer speaks of her love in the present tense. Then there are the numbers that come from left field, like the slithering, funky “The Blackest Lilly,” which struts like a sexy Rolling Stones song while pulling inspiration from Philadelphia’s neo-soul party, the Black Lily. It comes to a moving end with the title track, a masterful piece that looks back through generations of loss and the majestic ocean of time that “Breaks everything/Crushes everything/Cleans everything.” If it all seems incongruous, so is the recovery process Rae must face, and the album’s cycle of mourning, returning to work, aching, fondly reminiscing, yearning, and then back again won’t be unfamiliar to anyone who has lost someone close. It doesn’t offer any answers, but The Sea is a testament to Rae’s artistic growth as it provides comfort to those left on the wistful side of eternal love, and insight to those who are not.
Corrine Bailey Rae's voice, always an expressive and soulful instrument, resonates with a poignant and newfound depth on The Sea. Loss and grief are recurring themes, yet a sense of beauty and wonder ultimately radiates from the album's dark corners. Co-produced by Bailey Rae with Steve Brown and Steve Chrisanthou, who produced many of the songs on Bailey Rae's debut album, The Sea was recorded mainly in Leeds and Manchester, England and brings together a new band of musicians. "There is something miraculous that pushes you along, makes you keep going, makes you carry on. It's really about the mystery of that. In fact, the whole album is about that in a way; it's about loss but it's also about hope, about keeping going and trying to find that beauty," Bailey Rae told the U.K.'s Observer Music Monthly, which hailed The Sea as "an extraordinarily intimate and impassioned album.M. mustang
Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea (2010)
Codec: flac
Size: 237 MB
Genre : Neo Soul
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Tracklist:
01. Are You Here (4:12)
02. I'd Do It All Again (3:07)
03. Feels Like The First Time (3:13)
04. The Blackest Lily (3:37)
05. Closer (4:17)
06. Love's On It's Way (3:54)
07. I Would Like To Call It Beauty (4:18)
08. Paris Nights/New York Mornings (3:51)
09. Paper Dolls (3:20)
10. Diving For Hearts (4:50)
11. The Sea (4:04)
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