I received for Christmas a great music CD. I know tastes in music vary a lot. Nshorna, my daughter, gave me for Christmas the year’s best selling album by Scotland’s Emeli Sande – Our Version of Events. 19 tracks. Five stars. Better still. Six stars.
Emeli Sande offers a personal, social, political comment in her music. She is a woman with a wonderful , wonderful voice.
Listen to Heaven (on intentions), Clown (independence despite the system) River (even a small river leads to the Sea) and Next to Me (we only need one person in the whole world to give us unconditional love) and much more. She is in huge demand as a song writer from other major singers.
From Heaven
Will you recognize me
When I’m lying on my back?
Something’s gone inside me
And I can’t get it back
Oh heaven, oh heaven
I wake with good intentions
But the day it always lasts too long
Then I’m gone
Oh heaven, oh heaven
I wake with good intentions
But the day it always lasts too long
From Clown
So I’ll be your clown
Behind the glass
Go ‘head and laugh ’cause it’s funny
I would too if I saw me
I’ll be your clown
On your favorite channel
My life’s a circus-circus rounding circles
I’m selling out tonight
From River
If you’re looking for the big adventure
and gold is all that’s on your mind
If all you want’s someone to take your picture
then I won’t waste your time.
See, maybe I’m too quiet for you
you probably never noticed me
but if you’re too big to follow rivers
how you ever gonna find the sea?
Born in Sunderland, northern England, Emeli comes from a Zambian father and English mother. The family moved to Scotland when she was four years old.
She received the Brit Awards Critics Choice for 2012 and various other awards Her music gets the well deserved description “richly melodic, classically powerful, retro-futurist soul-pop..”
Her favourite artist is Nina Simone. She is committed to expressing the importance of peace and social concerns in her songs.
You might ring my front door bell and I fail to hear it. It probably means Our Version of Events is blasting out through the loudspeakers.