| Product Summary | | Label: HEAR MUSIC/UNIVERSAL | | UPC: 00888072304987 | | Release Date: 8/4/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 211410130 | | Item#: M4PJMH | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 27033 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Boom ~ Anjulie |  | | 2. Rain ~ Anjulie | | | 3. Some Dumb Girl ~ Anjulie | | | 4. Addicted2Me ~ Anjulie | | | 5. Crazy That Way Intro ~ Anjulie | | | 6. Crazy That Way ~ Anjulie | | | 7. Fatal Attraction ~ Anjulie | | | 8. Heat, The ~ Anjulie | | | 9. Colombia ~ Anjulie | | | 10. Same Damn Thing ~ Anjulie | | | 11. I Want the World To Know ~ Anjulie | | | 12. Love Songs ~ Anjulie | | | 13. Day Will Soon Come/When It's Love ~ Anjulie | |
| With her unique voice, disarmingly frank lyrics, melodic gifts, and exotic good looks, singer and songwriter Anjulie announces herself as a commanding new presence on the music scene. On her self-titled debut album, Anjulie, the Los Angeles-based songwriter comes across as a confident young woman who examines her life, loves, obsessions, and heartbreaks with fearless introspection. "I think what separates me from other artists is that I write from a really intimate place," Anjulie says." This album is like me opening the door to my bedroom, literally. I come off as being pretty put-together, but my songs are the one place where I can pull the string and unravel. They're where I can be vulnerable, insecure, jealous, silly, and childlike. It's too scary to do that in real life. You have to feel safe. I only feel safe with headphones on."
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Kristy Hawkins (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Colin Wolfe (guitar, Wurlitzer organ, keyboards, percussion, drum programming); John "Hot Fat Reynolds" Ferraro (guitar, drums); Ricky Tillo, Oliver Johnson (guitar); Chris Wood , Paul Cartwright, Andrea Deboer, Corey Gemmell, Norman Hathaway (violin); Nick Papadakis, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (viola); Jill Vitols, Peter Jacobson (cello); Bill Barrett, Scott Martin, Walter Davis (saxophone); Ron Blake , Sebastien Leger (trumpet); Francisco Torres (trombone); Clarence McDonald (piano); Anthony Brewster (organ); Jon Levine (Wurlitzer organ, keyboards, percussion, drum programming); Anthony Kilhoffer (keyboards, percussion, drum programming); Transcenders (keyboards, drum programming); Jorn Anderson (drums, percussion); Larnell Lewis, Michael White , Ricky Lawson (drums); Daniel Stone (percussion); John Burk, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth (programming, drum programming); Seth Presant (drum programming); Jans Lamberg, Adam Homberg, Eva Redpath, Ryan Whittal (background vocals). | | Audio Mixers: Jan Fairchild; Russell Elevado. | | Recording information: 21 Music, Toronto, Canada; Beacon Street Studios, Venice, CA; Dave's Room, North Hollywood, CA; Metalworks, Mississauga, ON, Canada; The Village Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Track Record, North Hollywood, CA; Wellesley Sound, Toronto, Canada; White Lightning Studios, Sylmar, CA. | | Photographer: Sarah V. Fletcher . | | Smoky, world-flavored R&B dominates this debut long-player by Guyanese-Canadian singer Anjulie, whose 2008 single "Boom" delighted critics and inspired comparisons to Lauryn Hill and M.I.A. The album's second single, "Rain," is a similarly slinky number with a killer hook. "Love Songs" sounds like a prime Stevie Wonder track circa the mid-'70s, attesting to both bewitching vocal chops and solid songwriting skills. |
Producer: Colin Wolfe; Jon Levine; John Burk; Jon Levine; The Transcenders; Colin Wolfe; John Burk; Jon Levine; The Transcenders |
Engineer: Jan Fairchild; David Bianco; Dennis Moody; L. Stuart Young; Jon Levine; Jeff McCulloch; Lenny DeRose; Rob Beaton; Seth Presant |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/04/2009 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : 30498 | | Label : Hear Music (Starbucks) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00888072304987 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | | CMJ - "[O]ptimistic, catchy tracks....Anjulie shows her lyrical talent on 'Same Damn Thing,' which she and Jon Levine co-wrote." |
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| | Bio | | | Anjulie The youngest of four children, Anjulie grew up in the Toronto suburb of Oaksville, Ontario, raised by immigrant parents from Guyana -- a South American nation culturally influenced by its Caribbean neighbors to the north. As a result, her household was filled with everything from Afro-Caribbean calypso, reggae, and South American Latin music, to the pop and rock emanating from her older siblings' radios. The m?lange has definitely influenced Anjulie's debut -- a sophisticated blend of indelible pop smarts, hip-hop edginess, and world-music spice, topped by Anjulie's sultry vocal stylings that she created with her producers and songwriting collaborators Colin Wolfe, who has worked with Dr. Dre and Monica, and her longtime collaborator Jon Levine, keyboardist for Toronto's funk-pop combo The Philosopher Kings. Anjulie and Levine first met when then-17-year-old Anjulie, already a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and performer hustling to catch a break, was doing an internship at Metalworks recording studio in Toronto. "I was basically cleaning the studio and getting coffee for people," she says. "Jon came in and he was in a famous band, so I knew who he was. He asked me to have some lunch, but the people who work behind the desk are not supposed to hang out with clients, so I got fired." Despite that minor setback, the story has a happy ending. Levine was intrigued enough to accept an invitation to hear Anjulie perform at an open mic night, which led to their current creative partnership. In 2005, the pair wrote two songs for actress-singer Emma Roberts' debut album Unfabulous and More. Anjulie's other songwriting credits include co-writing a track on The Philosopher Kings' album 2006 album Castles, and penning "Don't Call Me Baby" -- a Billboard Top 10 hit in Canada for EMI recording artist Kreesha Turner.
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