Seasons Of My Soul

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Rumer's second album Boys Don't Cry was released on 28 May 2012. It contains a selection of songs by male artists and writers from the 70s and 80s period. Covers of songs by artists such as Todd Rundgren, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Neil Young and Terry Reid were chosen to mirror the solace and anguish Rumer experienced since achieving success and fame (BBC Music review). [31] The majority of Boys Don't Cry was recorded at the same time as, or before Seasons of My Soul, but two weeks before the deadline Rumer and Steve Brown irreparably fell out. Rumer sought urgent help to finish the record and enlisted family friend Jennie Muskett, a notable film and TV composer to step in and help realise her vision in Steve's absence. A lot of the music had to be re-recorded at RAK Studios with John Paraceli on guitar, Ian Thomas and Steve Pierce on drums and Dave Hartley on piano. Brown has described Seasons of My Soul as "a kind of emotional Trojan horse" and he is right. The glide and tinkle of the schmaltzier numbers here, like "Slow", a single, often obscure the complexity of feeling lurking in Rumer's songs. UK Charts – Seasons of My Soul – #3". Official UK Charts – By. 13 November 2010 . Retrieved 16 January 2020.

Rumer received a personal note from Richard Carpenter regarding her debut album, "You not only sing beautifully," writes Carpenter, "but what you've created is actually musical, something that has been in short supply in recent years. The fact that the album is a sales success as well is reassuring to me, as I still firmly believe that if the public is exposed to music that is natural and of high quality, they will respond positively. Congratulations". [24] But then, she adds: "The good thing is that I'm low-maintenance. I A&Red myself. And every album I make will work out of the box." Including, she hopes, her next one – a project called Boys Don't Cry, which gathers together songs by male singer-songwriters. Does she feel like she has arrived finally? Being nominated for Best British Female Singer at the Brits – despite the album coming out on the eve of nominations – must have been a watershed, surely? "There's no feeling of arrival," she ponders. "It's just nice to be recognised for doing something well." One thing she is able to do more often these days is send money to her relatives in Pakistan. Do they know what she does? She smiles and shakes her head. "A couple of years ago, I told them I had a job, but it wasn't so good. Now I've told them I have a good job. And they're happy for me." Is she surmising, or did someone literally say that? ""Yeah. Or the other thing was, 'You're not stylish.'"Hal David, Burt Bacharach honored in D.C. with Gershwin Prize". Latimesblogs.latimes.com. 9 May 2012. Rumer, the seventh of eight children, was born in 1979 in Tarbela Dam, Pakistan. Rumer's family lived there from 1977 to 1984 while her British father was contracted as Chief Engineer of the Tarbela Dam Project. [13] The Lebara Mobile UK Asian Music Awards 2011... and the nominees are..." ethnicnow.com. 2 February 2011 . Retrieved 13 March 2011.

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