Artist.......: Katie Melua
Album........: Live at Avo Session Basel
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Pop
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2013-04-28
Str.date.....: 2012-11-03
Quality......: 217kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.myspace.com/katiemelua
track title time
1. Live at Avo Session Basel 74:33
* If You Were A Sailboat
* The Closest Thing To Crazy
* The Flood
* A Moment Of Madness
* Gasoline Alley
* If The Lights Go Out
* The Walls Of The World
* Secret Symphony
* Forgetting All My Troubles
* Call Off The Search
* Moonshine
* Two Bare Feet
* Nine Million Bicycles
* Belfast
* I Cried For You
Runtime 74:33
Size 115.77
Release Notes:
Plucked from music school obscurity by songwriter/producer Mike Batt, Katie
Melua quickly became the highest-selling female musician in the U.K., a feat
that owed much of its success to her wildly popular 2003 debut. Melua was born
in Soviet Georgia in 1984 and later moved to Belfast, Ireland. Her family pulled
up stakes several years later and relocated to London, where Melua entered the
B.R.I.T. School for the Performing Arts & Technology. The record industry-funded
school had a habit of graduating talented artists like Floetry, and Melua became
its next success when a 2003 showcase caught the attention of Batt, who'd been
looking for a vocalist capable in both jazz and blues styles.
Call Off the Search, her debut album, was issued in the U.K. in November 2003 by
Batt's own label, Dramatico Records. A comfortable, tasteful blend of jazz
vocals, pop style, and adult contemporary sway, the album featured two cuts
penned by Melua (including a tribute to one of her biggest influences, Eva
Cassidy), as well as covers of material from John Mayall, Randy Newman, and the
James Shelton classic "Lilac Wine." The single "Closest Thing to Crazy" hit
number one in December, and by January of the following year, Call Off the
Search had gone platinum (300,000 units in the U.K.). It continued selling
copies for years, eventually going platinum six times.
Gigs in Europe followed, and in May 2004 Melua made her way to the U.S. for a
round of club dates in support of the album's domestic release. She achieved
even greater success with her 2005 follow-up, Piece by Piece, a heady blend of
worldbeat and jazz-pop that topped both the international and British charts
before setting its sights on the U.S. market in 2006. The similarly
jazz-inflected Pictures followed a year later, and the concert recording Live at
the O▓ Arena appeared in 2009. The following year, Melua delivered the
studio-effort The House, which widened her sound with production from techno
mastermind William Orbit. In 2012, she returned with the orchestral pop album
Secret Symphony featuring arrangements by longtime producer Batt.