[荐]Angel Taylor - Love Travels 2009[Pop/Soul/Acoustic]<P><IMG onmousewheel="return imgzoom(this)" onmouseover="attachimg(this, 'mouseover')" onclick="attachimg(this, 'click', 'http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/genericv2b/1100/100/01AwcA9j7xNYoAwmUBAAAABtddvX4:.jpg')" alt="" src="http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/genericv2b/1100/100/01AwcA9j7xNYoAwmUBAAAABtddvX4:.jpg" onload="attachimg(this, 'load', 'Click here to open new window\nCTRL+Mouse wheel to zoom in/out')" border=0><BR><FONT face="Courier New"><B>| Artist: Angel Taylor |<BR>| Album: Love Travels |<BR>| Bitrate: VBR kbps |<BR>| Label: Columbia Records |<BR>| Year: 2009 |<BR>| Genre: Pop |<BR>| Rip date: Mar-25-2009 |<BR>| Store date: Apr-07-2009 |<BR>| Size: 61,2 MB |<BR>| | [Track List]<BR>| |<BR>|Track Listing: |<BR>| |<BR>| 01 - Chai Tea Latte 03:48 |<BR>| 02 - Like You Do 03:15 |<BR>| 03 - Make Me Believe 03:19 |<BR>| 04 - Maple Tree 04:18 |<BR>| 05 - Too Good For Words 03:50 |<BR>| 06 - Spinning Wheels 04:02 |<BR>| 07 - Don't Forget Me In Time 03:46 |<BR>| 08 - Lightning Strikes 05:18 |<BR>| 09 - Epiphany 04:01 |<BR>| 10 - Feed Your Ego 03:09 |<BR>| 11 - All Lost At C 03:48 |<BR>| 12 - Not Even Human 04:09 |<BR>| |<BR>| |<BR>| 46:43 min |<BR>| | [Notes]<BR>| |<BR>| Sitting next to Angel Taylor, her charisma is as palpable as her music |<BR>| itself. Talking with her about the passionate swirl of her debut |<BR>| release, Love Travels, the 20 year-old singer-songwriter is quick to |<BR>| share stories about her inspirations, but those stories fast become |<BR>| secondary to the true magic of her talent as a songwriter: The 12 tracks |<BR>| on Love Travels are more than just personal missives that Angel Taylor |<BR>| has set to music, they are living and breathing experiences that we have |<BR>| all shared. The names may change, but the stories remain the same. |<BR>| |<BR>| "Anyone who has ever wanted to be loved very deeply by someone, but |<BR>| hasn't, will totally be able to grab hold of these songs," says Taylor. |<BR>| "That's what this album is about - wanting it so bad, not having it, and |<BR>| wondering why... It's a lot of questions." |<BR>| |<BR>| And while Taylor doesn't pretend to have any answers, there's no |<BR>| escaping how good it feels to get engulfed by her insecurities, romanced |<BR>| by her vulnerability, and swooned by her tender lyrics and swaying |<BR>| melodies. Feeling self-conscious about listening to love songs written |<BR>| by a girl barely removed from her teens? Try and remember when love hurt |<BR>| the most, that high school spark that never flickered into a flame, or |<BR>| the flame that fanned out as quickly as it flared, making everything |<BR>| around you ache and throb. In a lot of ways, the love Angel Taylor is |<BR>| writing about is the most pure, untainted by a lifetime of experiences |<BR>| that too often devour the idealism of the helpless romantic buried in us |<BR>| all. |<BR>| |<BR>| "I don't think it's got anything to do with age or experience, because I |<BR>| think your heart speaks much faster than you might imagine. I mean, I |<BR>| don't even know that I can say I've fallen in love, but it's still not |<BR>| surprising for me to speak or sing about love like I do, because I've |<BR>| felt it... I've felt how I think it's supposed to feel, and whether that |<BR>| was really love or not, I've still meant it with all my heart." |<BR>| |<BR>| Her heart resonates on Love Travels, where she peels apart the fairy |<BR>| tale of falling in love and climbs inside, wondering why it can't be her |<BR>| and rationalizing when it might be. "Chai Tea Latte" opens the album |<BR>| like the songbird's mating call, comparing a multi-cultural love to her |<BR>| favorite Starbucks drink and romanticizing the perfect date that never |<BR>| was in a gently stirred ballad. Like John Mayer - her favorite musician, |<BR>| and now labelmate on Columbia Records - Taylor's lyrics pack a wisdom |<BR>| that defies her years, finding the simplest, most accessible way to |<BR>| describe life's most confusing emotions. |<BR>| |<BR>| "Maple Tree" is Angel at her most vulnerable, a lush canopy of music |<BR>| cloaking her bared soul, her vocals enunciating tremors through the |<BR>| chorus: "If you love me, for the beauty of my personality, then I'll |<BR>| stay here forever, don't you see; If you need me with a hunger, with a |<BR>| hope and with a dream, then I'll stay here underneath this maple |<BR>| tree..." Packing a melodic sensibility that is undeniable and engaging, |<BR>| "Like You Do" and "Make Me Believe" follow down more traditional pop |<BR>| avenues, propelled by buoyant strides and an artful, invigorated bounce. |<BR>| At opposite ends of Taylor's musical spectrum, "Spinning Wheel" - the |<BR>| track that birthed the album title - squares off against a confusing |<BR>| flurry of emotions amidst one of the album's more upbeat and peppier |<BR>| tempos, and a piano ballad offers the jarring landscape for the personal |<BR>| insecurities of "Too Good For Words." Co-written with her sister Ebony, |<BR>| "Epiphany" is a jazzy interlude, and "It's Easy" features the songwriter |<BR>| in all her understated, stripped-down glory, noting that "to love me is |<BR>| easy, like scooping mint ice cream." But the album's crowning glory just |<BR>| may be "Lightning Strikes," starting heavy on the piano and trembling |<BR>| like an ensuing storm, Taylor's epic vocals waiting for love to hit. |<BR>| |<BR>| "I've always felt like love is like lightning, in that it's big and |<BR>| loud, and something crazy happens when it hits," she explains. "It's |<BR>| almost scary, but it's thrilling at the same time." |<BR>| |<BR>| Just as spectacular as the music, is the young woman who crafts it. The |<BR>| Southern California native never wanted a recording contract, but fate |<BR>| intervened, making Angel Taylor one of music's emerging voices for those |<BR>| of us who seeking substance amidst the overblown style of today's pop |<BR>| culture. Looking for nothing more than a way to record a few of her |<BR>| songs for family and friends as a Christmas gift, an unknowing email to |<BR>| producer Mikal Blue [Colbie Caillat, Brendan James] resulted in an |<BR>| invitation to his Revolver Studios for an impromptu audition. "I played |<BR>| two songs, 'Chai' and 'It's Easy,' and he said he wanted to work with me |<BR>| - I told him all I wanted to do was get my music on a CD, and asked him |<BR>| how long that was going to take, and he said, 'Oh no, I want to really |<BR>| work with you...'" |<BR>| |<BR>| And in a manner of months, the soft-spoken and big-hearted Angel Taylor |<BR>| took her first plane trip (to visit record labels in New York), got her |<BR>| first cell phone, and after signing with Aware/Columbia Records, was |<BR>| able to move herself, her mother and two of her sisters into their first |<BR>| house. Not bad for a girl who never had any musical schooling, and only |<BR>| starting writing poetry because of her sister. "Ebony started writing |<BR>| poetry when she was 14, I was 13, and I started writing cheeseball stuff |<BR>| like, 'you're awesome, I think you're opossum.' It didn't really get |<BR>| real until a few years later, but I never took a lesson - songs happened |<BR>| by me banging on a piano, playing it by ear, and trying to fit my poetry |<BR>| in. I didn't want to be a musician, I just wanted a fun hobby..." |<BR>| |<BR>| A passionate blend of youthful innocence, soulful essence and a |<BR>| spiritual center, Angel Taylor is every bit as wholesome and pure as her |<BR>| Love Travels debut, her longing for love and lust for life colored by |<BR>| dashes of hope. Don't count on that changing anytime soon. |</B></FONT><BR><B><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT></B><BR><A href="http://www.rayfile.com/files/96e8e8e8-19f1-11de-8bf5-0019d11a795f/" target=_blank><B><FONT size=1>http://www.rayfile.com/files/96e8e8e8-19f1-11de-8bf5-0019d11a795f/</FONT></B></A></P>
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