The promised Ajazz Remixes of the lead lead single, "I am Me", from Natasha Watts' her very well received album "Music Is My Life", are out today.
Atjazz is DJ/remixer, producer Martin Iveson who runs Ajjazz Record Company from Derby. For this remix he's drafted in Ben Hawson to add some Saxophone touches. The song has a completely different feel to the original with the tempo upped from 100 to 112 BPM with broken beats.
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Further to yesterday's announcement of the general album release of
Natasha Watt's fourth studio album "Music Is My Life" on 22 Sep '23, we learn today that she will be holding an album launch
event the same day at The Forge, Camden, London.
The event starts at 19:00 with tickets available
HERE. Early Bird tickets are just £15 + £1.50 booking fee.
The album is currently only available direct from NatashaWatts.com.
We've included the music video for possibly the killer cut that has
garnered much airplay "I Do, I Did, I'm Done" and came across a live
recording of the song she did in Osaka in 2019 with 'A Hundred Birds' included on their live album.
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As posted two weeks ago today, LRK Records has officially announced the
release of Natasha Watts' latest and fourth studio album "Music Is My Life". It is available to pre-order digitally and on vinyl (limited to 500 copies) today from
Bandcamp
for release on 22 Sep. It's an excellent album so if you don't want to wait
until then it is available exclusively to download from her
website.
We had a long phone conversation with Natasha only last week as she
wished to clarify the 'confusion' we alluded to in a previous post
regarding her releases. She is an independent artist who has written and
recorded the album and paid for the production costs (studio time,
musicians, digital (usb) production, artwork, promotion etc.) from her own
pocket at considerable expense and doesn't subscribe to the having
promoters giving her music away for free to radio as she has to recoup her
outlay to enable her to continue making music. However, she did pass
three tracks from it for promotion.
The confusion arose after "I Am Me" was billed as the lead single which we expressed our surprise to given that "Brighter Days" / "I Do, I Did, I'm Done" had already been released, albeit on vinyl, by LRK. She explained that,
as these weren't available digitally, they didn't count as far as the
FM radio stations were concerned so, in order for her material to gain
airplay on these stations, she needed to officially release a track digitally and make it available on the main digital platforms to gain airplay, hence the release
of "I Am Me".
We apologise for any confusion we may have caused and hopefully have now had it
clarified for us by Natasha.
The three tracks mentioned above, are the only ones currently available
to listen to until the album is digitally released on 22 Sep. Preferably,
if you'd like to support the artist directly, download now from
Natasha's website
to receive it in a unique (and almost certainly a future collectors item)
format, a usb stick housed within a cassette tape casing, and also cut out the middlemen's fees.
The album has involved Ziggy Funk (aka Zaidi Kiggundu who has just
released an album "Fortuitous" as Zaimie with Jaime McShane), Reel People's Mike Patto & Toni
Economides (who produced and played on several tracks), Dave Doyle and
Morgan How'll.
Musicians include Julian Crampton (bass), Nick Cohen (bass), Andy Gangadeen (drums), Tony
Remy (guitar), Nicolas Gilmore (piano). Elizabeth Troy (BGVs) and A Hundred
Birds Orchestra Japan (Strings and Piano)
The album is highly recommended and topped the Soul Associates Top 30 for
three weeks (weeks 13,14 & 15) in March/April when released via the
website.
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As alluded to in the post for
Aphrose, but we were sworn to secrecy, LRK has just announced that the album they
have been keeping under wraps is in fact Natasha Watts' "Music Is My Life".
The album will be released on limited edition vinyl, limited to 500
copies. The album is only currently available from
Natasha's website
on a usb stick enclosed in a cassette tape casing.
LRK's Liam Kenney has stated that pre-orders will be taken in the next
few weeks so please don't hassle him about the album just yet.
For a
sample of the album
we posted three tracks from it earlier this year and the lead single "I Am Me" was released on 23 Jun. To give you some idea of the album's quality, we
rated it 8.8.
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