Take Me To The Alley - Polska Cena

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„Take Me To The Alley” - następcą sprzedanego w milionie egzemplarzy, uhonorowanego nagrodą Grammy „Liquid Spirit”. Gregory Porter - artysta, którego muzyka jest jednocześnie ponadczasowa i niezwykle aktualna, albumem „Take Me to the Alley” umacnia swoją pozycję najwrażliwszego wokalisty i kompozytora jazzowego swojego pokolenia.

Album otwiera znakomity utwór „Holding On”. Fani, którzy znają ten tytuł dzięki wspólnemu nagraniu Portera i Disclosure (piosenka znalazła się na płycie „Caracal” brytyjskiego duetu), będą zaskoczeni tym, co usłyszą. Porter świadomie odszedł od tanecznej wersji, której jest współautorem. Jak tłumaczy sam artysta: „Zdecydowałem, że ten utwór zasługuje na nagranie, które mógłbym umieścić na swojej płycie. Chciałem też przez to powiedzieć, że piosenka tak naprawdę zawsze jest jedna, niezależnie od wersji. Przesłanie, które niosą słowa pozostaje niezmienne, niezależnie od tego, w jakie dźwięki jest ubrane”. Porywający, bluesowy „Don’t Lose Your Steam”, pierwszy oficjalny singiel promujący album, dedykowany jest trzyletniemu synowi Portera. Słowa piosenki o trwaniu przy swoich celach, mimo kłód rzucanych pod nogi przez los, to olbrzymia dawka pozytywnego myślenia.

“Take Me To The Alley” jest dostępny na czterech nośnikach:
CD - Polska Cena w cenie 37,99 zł
CD International w cenie 49,99 zł
Deluxe Edition [CD+DVD Video] w cenie 69,99 zł
Vinyl 2LP w cenie 109,99 zł


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An artist whose music is at once timeless yet utterly of its time, Gregory Porter solidifies his standing as his generation’s most soulful jazz singer-songwriter with the May 6 release of Take Me to the Alley via Decca / Universal Music Canada (UMC), the country’s leading music company. The much-anticipated follow-up to his million-selling Grammy-winning 2013 Blue Note / UMC debut Liquid Spirit. The album pre-order includes the release of two tracks—“Holding On” and the incredible new single “Don’t Lose Your Steam”—which fans will receive instantly when pre-ordering a download of the album.
“Holding On” the album’s stunning opening track, finds Porter presenting his decidedly different version of the Disclosure single that he was the featured vocalist on and co-wrote for their album Caracal. “I decided to do the song the way that I would have recorded it on my record,” Porter says. “It’s a way of saying that a song is a song is a song. The lyrics and the intention of the song come through no matter what kind of bells and whistles are going on.” The rousing, bluesy stomp “Don’t Lose Your Steam” is the first official single from the new album and is dedicated to Porter’s three-year-old son with encouraging lyrics about staying committed to one’s goals regardless of hardship.

Liquid Spirit – which followed Porter’s critically-acclaimed and GRAMMY-nominated albums Water (2010) and Be Good (2012) – was released in the Fall of 2013 and quickly grew into a global phenomenon, selling a million albums worldwide and becoming the most streamed jazz album of all-time with over 20 million streams. The album sold Platinum in the U.K. and Germany, and in the U.S. Porter made his first-ever national TV appearances on The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live while ESQUIRE and NPR Music both declared him “America’s Next Great Jazz Singer.” Liquid Spirit also won Porter his first GRAMMY Award in 2014 for Best Jazz Vocal Album while also earning him a Best Traditional R&B Performance nomination for his affecting ballad “Hey Laura.”
In the Fall of 2015 Porter finally found the time to return to the studio in New York City to record Take Me To The Alley. As he’s done on his previous three albums, Porter teamed with producer Kamau Kenyatta to craft a collection of stirring originals that juxtapose the personal and political. His partnership with Kenyatta started in the mid-1990s when he was a student at San Diego State University (Porter began his college years playing football on a full athletic scholarship before a shoulder injury diverted him into a music career). It was through Kenyatta’s mentorship that Porter’s professional musical career began.
Reinforcing their well-honed rapport is the return of Porter’s core accompanying musicians – pianist and music director Chip Crawford, bassist Aaron James, drummer Emanuel Harrold, alto saxophonist Yosuke Sato, and tenor saxophonist Tivon Pennicott. Singer Alicia Olatuja, trumpeter Keyon Harrold, and organist Ondrej Pivec also make appearances throughout.