The Heart Speaks In Whispers (Deluxe) Corinne Bailey Rae

• 1The Skies Will Break04:52
• 2Hey, I Won't Break Your Heart04:47
• 3Been To The Moon04:03
• 4Tell Me04:07
• 5Stop Where You Are04:10
• 6Green Aphrodisiac05:51
• 7Horse Print Dress04:03
• 8Do You Ever Think Of Me?05:26
• 9Caramel05:15
• 10Taken By Dreams03:54
• 11Walk On04:25
• 12Night04:32
• 13In The Dark04:49
• 14Ice Cream Colours03:16
• 15High05:46
• 16Push On For The Dawn06:13
• Total Runtime01:15:29

Info for The Heart Speaks In Whispers (Deluxe)

British singer-songwriter - and two-time Grammy winner - Corinne Bailey Rae returns with the release of her album The Heart Speaks In Whispers, out on 13 May. The Heart Speaks In Whispers is rich with fresh ideas and full of emotional energy that flows through its songs like electricity. The album was recorded in both her Leeds and Los Angeles studios and is co-produced by Corinne with Steve Brown, her collaborator on her critically acclaimed previous album The Sea.

"Boundary-pushing, epic music" raves NPR, "an indispensable modern soul album" finds PopMatters, "gloriously sophisticated futuristic soul" jubilates Uncut. It's not every day that the music press is united in singing such anthemic tones. But then, it's not every day (or rather, year) that Corinne Bailey Rae releases a new album. The last one, "The Sea", was released about six years ago, shortly after the death of her husband. And with "The Heart Speaks in Whispers" she has now succeeded in making, as Mojo says, "a brilliant and very welcome return".

There were two reasons why people had to wait so long for Bailey Rae's third album: First, she travelled the world to find new inspiration. Then she set up her own recording studio at home in Leeds so that she could work on her songs as she pleased. "I wanted to have my own space where - without having to watch the clock or feel watched - I could explore, create and experiment," she explains. "Every single song instinctively emerged from a musical phrase or image, a fragment that I just had to follow to see where it would take me."

In the liberated atmosphere, ideas for new songs flowed out of her at dizzying speed. After putting pen to paper and partially recording the material in Leeds with her new life partner Steve Brown (who already co-produced "The Sea" and has been the musical director of her band for quite some time), Bailey Rae left for Los Angeles to continue the work in the legendary studios of Capitol Records.

There she met creative minds who gave her additional wings: including the one and only Esperanza Spalding, bassists Marcus Miller (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock) and Pino Palladino (D'Angelo), drummer James Gadson (Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers), Valerie Simpson (Ashford & Simpson) and Paris Strother (KING). Together with them, she created a wonderfully warm-sounding, modern soul album. And with songs like "Been To The Moon", "Green Aphrodisiac" and "Stop Where You Are", Corinne Bailey Rae also proves right away that she still has a knack for radio and chart hits of the highest quality.

"On the enchanting third album she documents the ... collected experiences and the development of her personality now in a great R&B of British colour." (Stereo, Germany)

"What places The Heart Speaks In Whispers in the elite category of transcendental genre-busters from Minnie Riperton to Erykah Badu are those big-sky songs that play as a continuation of the Prince-style revolution KING announced on its striking debut earlier this year. (Rae and the much-lamented superstar were friends, and he worked with KING.) "Green Aphrodisiac" recalls the Purple One's pastoral work on Diamonds And Pearls, while "Horse Print Dress" takes up the playful seductiveness of songs like "Peach." Rae uses her light vocal tone ingeniously throughout The Heart Speaks In Whispers, sidestepping the clichés of oversinging in the new gospel of "Walk On" and infusing gravitas with gentleness in the slow and steady "Hey, I Won't Break Your Heart." After his death, many fans pointed to Prince's legacy of work with female artists. Rae realizes it here — a woman, not a girl, dreaming in her own colors." (Ann Powers, npr.org)

Corinne Bailey Rae

Corinne Bailey Rae
Two-time GRAMMY-winning vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist Corinne Bailey Rae is among the most celebrated artists in contemporary soul and R&B. Named the number-one predicted breakout star by the BBC’s critics poll following the release of her #1 charting debut album in 2006, the Leeds-born Bailey Rae has racked up six GRAMMY nominations, an NAACP Image Award, and innumerable other honors over her career.

She appears on the Miner stage for two nights, bringing an immersive multimedia experience featuring music from her new multidisciplinary project, Black Rainbows.

After three superlative releases and collaboration with the likes of Al Green, Mary J. Blige, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, RZA, Herbie Hancock, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Bailey Rae presents her boldest and most audacious statement yet.

Black Rainbows was inspired by the artworks collected by artist, educator, and social innovator Theaster Gates at the Stony Island Arts Bank — a historic bank building on the South Side of Chicago comprising a curated collection of books, sculpture, records, furniture, and problematic objects from America’s past.

From the rock hewn churches of Ethiopia to the journeys of Black Pioneers Westward, Black Rainbows explores Black femininity, Inner Space and Outer Space, time collapse, ancestors, the erasure of Black childhood, and music as a vessel for transcendence.

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