Sugaring Season Beth Orton

• 1 Magpie 04:32
• 2 Dawn Chorus 03:24
• 3 Candles 03:45
• 4 Something More Beautiful 03:28
• 5 Call Me the Breeze 03:52
• 6 Poison Tree 04:06
• 7 See Through Blue 01:54
• 8 Last Leaves of Autumn 04:01
• 9 State of Grace 04:15
• 10 Mystery 04:08
• 11 That Summer Feeling 04:40
• 12 I Wasn't Born To Follow 04:00
• 13 Goin' Back 04:04
• Total Runtime 50:09

Info for Sugaring Season

Folkmusic, sagt Beth Orton, sei ganz nah dran am Geist des Punkrock - weil es da um Menschen gehe, nicht um Mode oder Trends. Der Titel "Sugaring Season" ist eine poetische Umschreibung des Herbstes, des Lebensherbstes, wenn man so will, des Zeitraums, in dem der Zuckergehalt in den Trauben steigt. Es geht um Reife und um die Persönlichkeit eines Menschen, der sich freigeschwommen hat. "Sugaring Season" ist Ortons erstes Album für das renommierte US-Label anti. Die Begleitmusiker sind handverlesen: Der wunderbare Brian Blade am Schlagzeug und der fabelhafte Marc Ribot an diversen Gitarren sind darunter.

Zehn Songs wie die zehn Gebote: Britische Folk-Balladen, arrangiert für Akustik-Gitarren, auch ein englischer Walzer ist dabei, vorgetragen auf dem Klavier. Orton hat, was vielen, hübsch phrasierenden Sängerinnen unserer Tage abgeht: Charakter nämlich. Meisterhaft, wie nuancenreich sie ihre silbrig glitzernde Stimme einsetzt. Sie kann kühl und schroff klingen, in der nächsten Sekunde wieder feminin, verwundbar und schutzbedürftig. Zu Recht wird sie die Stimme einer Generation genannt, nur bleibt sie weiterhin ein Geheimtipp! "Sugaring Season" ist wunderbar solide, stimmig, überragend ist es leider nicht. (Markus Mayer, www.br.de)

"Gemeinsam mit der Künstlerin kreierten sie ein schönes Album aus leisem Folk, ein wenig weißem Soul und fragilem Songwriter-Pop." Vier Sterne gibt er für das Album." (Rolling Stone)

Beth Orton, vocals & guitar
Rob Burger, bass
Sebastian Steinberg, bass
Brian Blade, drums
Marc Ribot, guitars
Ted Barnes, guitars
Sam Amidon, vocals
Eyvind Kang, violin

Produced by Tucker Martine

Elizabeth Caroline Orton, commonly known as Beth Orton, is a BRIT Award–winning English singer-songwriter. Known for her "folktronica" sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica, she was initially recognised for her collaborations with William Orbit and the Chemical Brothers in the mid 1990s — but these were not Orton's first recordings. She released a solo album, Superpinkymandy, in 1993. Since the album was only released in Japan, it went largely unnoticed by international audiences. Her second solo album, Trailer Park, garnered much critical acclaim in 1996. With the release of the albums Central Reservation (1999) and the 2002 UK top 10 album Daybreaker, Beth developed a devoted fan base. On her 2006 release, Comfort of Strangers, she has moved towards a more folk-based sound and away from the electronic sound of past albums.

American films and television programmes such as Felicity, How to Deal, Charmed, Dawson's Creek, Vanilla Sky and Grey's Anatomy have featured her music and provided her with exposure to an American mainstream audience.

Born in East Dereham, Norfolk, on 14th December 1970, she then moved to Norwich where she was then raised on a pig farm. In 1985 she moved to East London. Her father, an architectural draughtsman, left her mother, an artist and political activist, when Beth was eleven, she lived with her mother and her two brothers. Her father died shortly afterwards. In 1989 after the death of her mother from cancer Beth travelled to Thailand, where she resided with Buddhist nuns. Beth was late onto the music scene having previously worked as a waitress at Pizza Hut and even owned her own catering company. She was more interested in acting during her early career, having enrolled at the Anna Scher Theatre School, and she spent some time touring ‘Une Saison en Enfer’ playing Rimbaud's lover with a fringe theatre company throughout the UK, Russia and Ukraine.

Her first contribution in music came when she met William Orbit at a London nightclub, when he tried to borrow a cigarette from her. They began a relationship shortly after, and he invited her to do some spoken word for his current Strange Cargo project, but she drunkenly decided to sing also. Possibly the best-known work from that time is "Water from a Vine Leaf", which she co-wrote and which was released as a limited-edition single. As a duet called Spill, William Orbit and Beth released a cover version of John Martyn's "Don't Wanna Know 'Bout Evil", this was the first song that they recorded together, initially released in Japan, it was re-released in the UK in 1997.

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