Author: Merriweather, Daniel

Features:

• MERRIWEATHER DANIEL
• R&P INTERNATIONAL
• INTERNATIONAL
• MUSIC

Format: Explicit Lyrics

Release Date: 08-25-2009

Details: Product Description 2009 debut album from the Australian R&B singer/songwriter. Merriweather's first commercially released recording was a guest appearance on the track "All I Want" from Australian dance act Disco Montego's self-titled album in 2002. This was followed by a guest appearance on Mark Ronson's Here Comes the Fuzz album ("She's Got Me ") in 2003. His debut solo single "City Rules" (produced by Ronson and featuring raps from New York MC Saigon) followed in early 2004. In 2005 he co-wrote and co-produced much of friend Phrase's debut album Talk with Force. A 2006/7 collaboration with Mark Ronson (a version of the Smiths' "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"), had huge commercial success in the UK where it was released as the lead-off single for Ronson's Album Version. Now, Merriweather stands on his own as a unique and focused artist with Love & War. 12 tracks. Sony/BMG. Amazon.ca You may already be familiar with the powerhouse pipes of Daniel Merriweather, the 27-year-old Australian who lends his old-soul voice to “Stop Me” — an ingenious mash-up of The Smiths' “Stop Me If You Think You' ve Heard This One Before” and The Supremes' “You Keep Me Hangin' On” that appears on DJ/producer Mark Ronson's eclectic album Version. The track soared to the top of the airplay charts in the UK in April 2007 and led the British press to tout Merriweather as an artist to watch. Now Merriweather is making good on that promise and establishing himself as a singer, songwriter, and performer in his own right by stepping out with his own debut album, Love & War, which has already been tipped by Rolling Stone in the magazine's Spring Music Preview as one of 2009 hottest albums. “Working on 'Stop Me' planted this idea in my head that things don't have to fit in the same box that they originally came in,” Merriweather says. “On Love & War, it's as if I took all of my influences, shook them up in a box, and came up with a bunch of songs that I think stand away from any one particular genre. I'm as inspired by Q-Tip and A Tribe Called Quest as I am by Vivaldi, Stevie Wonder, Jeff Buckley or D'Angelo. There are artists who are archivists—they make music directly derived from music they love. I make music by subconsciously blending things I've heard throughout my life.” The result is an album that pulses with gritty hip-hop beats, '60s soul keyboards and horns, warm textures of acoustic and electric guitar, and cinematic string arrangements, all anchored by Merriweather's combustible vocals. Love & War is also a showcase for this young Aussie's considerable songwriting talents. Merriweather wrote nearly every song on the album on acoustic guitar with various musician friends, and then presented his compositions to Ronson, who produced the album, and his backing band, The Dap-Kings (of Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, who also played on Amy Winehouse's Back to Black and Ronson's Version). “It was interesting because the Dap-Kings have a very specific sound and my songs are quite different from what they would normally write,” Merriweather says. “So it was cool to have them reinterpret chord progressions and come up with arrangements for songs that they wouldn't naturally play. There are a lot of happy accidents on the album.” One happy accident turned out to be one of Merriweather's favorite songs: “Cigarettes” — a cry-in-your-beer tale of royally screwing up a relationship. “For all intents and purposes, it's a country song,” Merriweather says. “We used country chords, but it wasn't written like that deliberately. I gave the band a melody and a chord progression and they took it to a different place.” “Cigarettes” also illustrates another essential truth about Love & War: If you strip back the bells and whistles, the album is, at its core, a singer-songwriter album that brims with classic story-telling and semi-autobiographical tales. “You should never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn,” Merriweather says. “I've h

UPC: 886974731924

EAN: 0886974731924

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood