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Closer to the People
2016 studio album by Tanita Tikaram
Closer to the People is the ninth studio album by the British singer Tanita Tikaram.[5] The record was released on 11 March 2016 through Ear Music, an imprint of German-based label Edel Music.[6] The album also produced two singles: "Glass Love Train" and "The Way You Move".
Background
[edit]Closer to the People is Tikaram's first album in four years. Like her previous album Can't Go Back, it was released through Ear Music. Tikaram released a videoclip for the song "Food on My Table" in December 2015, although she stated this record was not the first single of the album.[7] Tikaram said that the record is inspired by the blues compositions she likes to play with her band.[8] Tikaram also explained to HuffPost UK that her latest music began taking form after she read a biography of American jazz singer Anita O'Day, who overcame her problems to perform jazz music for some 60 years.[9]
Reception
[edit]Michael Smith of Renowned for Sound wrote "As such, Closer To The People isn’t an album for everybody. Jazz fans, or fans of Tanita Tikaram’s particular style of lyricism and husky vocals, will surely find it easier to get into than the new listener
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Tanita Tikaram
Tanita Tikaram became an overnight success when she was only a teenager; her debut album "Ancient Heart" sold four million copies in the late 80s and gave her hit singles like 'Twist in My Sobriety'. Since then she's gone on to release eight more albums, with some rather interesting silences in between - when she almost gave up on music altogether. In 2016 she toured Europe with her ninth album, 'Closer to the People'.
In Private Passions, Tanita Tikaram talks to Michael Berkeley about the effect of that massive early success, and about going to live in Italy to escape the rock music world. It was a wilderness moment, when she wasn't even sure she should be a musician. At this point, in her 30s, she began to discover classical music, through the work of legendary performers like pianists Rosalyn Tureck and Clara Haskil. She talks about how Bach opened up a new musical world to her, and how listening to classical music - and taking classical singing lessons - helps her find her "groove" when she is composing her own songs.
With Bach, Vivaldi, Ravel, Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23, Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, and Duke Ellington.
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3.
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