Dramatico: Katie Melua — Secret Symphony (Audio CD)

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Product Details:

• Product Type: Audio CD
• Brand / Label: Dramatico (Dramatico Entertainment)
• Artist: Katie Melua
• Title: Secret Symphony
• Orchestra: Secret Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor / Producer: Mike Batt
• Release Year: 2012
• UPC: (to confirm — not visible on packaging)
• Catalog Number: DRAMCD0078
• Label Code: LC13350
• Genre: Pop, Jazz-Pop
• Condition: New / Factory Sealed

Product Features

• Format: CD
• Discs: 1
• Tracks: 11
• Recorded with the Secret Symphony Orchestra
• Conducted and produced by Mike Batt
• Includes the single "Gold in Them Hills"

Overview

Secret Symphony is Katie Melua's fifth studio album, a lush, orchestral record that reunited the Georgian-British singer with her longtime mentor and producer Mike Batt. After the more experimental The House, this album returns to the warm, jazz-tinged pop that made Melua one of Britain's best-selling artists.

Recorded with the Secret Symphony Orchestra, the album wraps Melua's clear, intimate voice in sweeping strings and elegant arrangements. From the opening "Gold in Them Hills" to the title track, it has a timeless, cinematic feel that suits her gift for understated melody.

The set mixes original songs with well-chosen covers, including a gorgeous reading of the blues standard "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out." Throughout, Batt's orchestrations give the songs a classic, almost film-score sweep without overwhelming the singer.

For fans of Melua's earlier hits and anyone who loves beautifully crafted orchestral pop, Secret Symphony is a sumptuous, romantic album — easy to love and beautifully produced.

Interesting Facts

• Secret Symphony is Katie Melua's fifth studio album, released in March 2012.
• It marked a reunion with producer Mike Batt, the songwriter and arranger who discovered her and shaped her early hits.
• The album was recorded with a dedicated ensemble billed as the Secret Symphony Orchestra.
• Track 7 is a cover of "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," a blues standard from the 1920s.
• Katie Melua was born in Georgia (then part of the USSR) and moved to the UK as a child, becoming one of Britain's top-selling female artists of the 2000s.
• The album was released on Batt's own Dramatico label, Melua's home throughout her early career.

Track Listing

1. Gold in Them Hills
2. Better Than a Dream
3. The Bit That I Don't Get
4. Moonshine
5. Forgetting All My Troubles
6. All Over the World
7. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
8. The Cry of the Lone Wolf
9. Heartstrings
10. The Walls of the World
11. Secret Symphony

Publishers

Released 2012 (℗&© 2012) by Dramatico Entertainment Limited (catalog DRAMCD0078, LC13350). With the Secret Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mike Batt.

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