Corinne Bailey Rae started work on the songs for her second album, The Sea, at the end of 2007, but the tragic loss of her husband in early 2008 lead to the singer-songwriter taking a complete break. It was well over a year before she eventually revisited her work, but the album has finally arrived. The Sea is an album where washes of colour and emotion draw you deep into a contrasting world of beauty and sadness, from which you emerge with hope and understanding.
February is the month for love, Sade is the music for love--we suppose it was inevitable that they would converge in our Editors' Picks. Check out the video for the militantly romantic song "Solider of Love" and learn more about Sade's latest album.
Singer-songwriter Meaghan Smith gets by with a little help from her friends; specifically tourmates k.d. lang, Sarah McLachlan, Ron Sexsmith, and Chantal Kreviazuk. With her latest work, The Cricket's Orchestra, Smith aspires to take listeners to "a colorful, whimsical, and imaginative place."
Moses Presents Zoomer's Choice: But I Still Believe In Love
Moses Znaimer is internationally recognized as a broadcast innovator behind several groundbreaking TV concepts and over 20 popular and independent stations and channels which he created in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Moses Presents Zoomer's Choice: But I Still Believe In Love is a compilation of 12 tracks from the good-old-days featuring classic artist like Nat King Cole, Roy Orbison, and Leonard Cohen.
