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Identifier:669910667064role: UPC
Title:Violet Symphony
Genre:Alternative
Genre:Folk Rock
Genre:Singer-Songwriter
Description:Jamie Brooke (born Peter James Middlebrook) is a British born Singer-Songwriter. Jamie’s musical journey is unique in any sense. Having traveled much of Africa and Asia over the past 15 years not surprisingly his music has been heavily influenced by the people, cultures, challenges and stories that he has experienced along the long and winding road. His highly distinctive music and professional career have both shaped and been shaped by the roads traveled and less traveled by, and it is more than fitting that his debut album Violet Symphony was written in Afghanistan, recorded in India and mastered in New York! Jamie’s soulful voice, powerful lyrics, brining guitars and dream-like melodies are a breath of fresh air in the often mundane modern musical arena. Further, at the very heart of this album, and the key to its universality, lies the simplicity of an acoustic guitar exploding with a wellspring of notes that lend a deeply organic and human touch to songs that are both odes to love lost and love found. With a passion for travel, at 18 he hitchhiked overland to India, before heading into Tibet, China and Russia on his way back to Europe. Returning to London for three years he worked and composed at recording studios in London although his first album was sadly destroyed and the songs were never completed. In the following ten years Jamie has worked tirelessly to combat global poverty in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, India and Somalia, with Presidents one day and up to his knees in dirt the next, dodging bullets and bombs while performing his songs in dusty venues and along lonely tracks. While he left school with few accomplishments disenfranchised with education, he later obtained a degree from the University of Northumbria and a doctorate in international relations; again experiences that changed his life and influenced his music. However, he never lost sight of his desire to emerge an accomplished singer and songwriter in his own right and his Debut album is a real humdinger for sure! ‘Violet Symphony’, his masterful album, overflows with songs painfully sculpted to expose the emotional core of love, life and the pain of loss. Written and recorded at a time of transition in his life, this album is a story of crossroads. Insanity, the opening track of the album 'Violet Symphony' champions the power and pain of insane love. Poet’s Dream has a powerful and raw emotional resonance, reflective of a unique place in Jamie’s heart where poets do indeed dream; where lovers stay till dawn. Summer Rain captures an U2esque brilliance of vibrant guitars, writing of the wall, the rain’s ability to wash away the dust of the summer while snatching the snow from the very clutches of winter. Empty Hands speaks of heartbreak; this song will make you cry! In Your Arms is a song of loves hope, a love that brings you to the centre of the storm. Falling for You is pop-rock at its best, vibrant, rhythmic, persuasive and percussive and Violet Symphony, the title track, has perhaps one of this year’s greatest road-listening riffs and melodies you will here! At the end of it all, song No.11, a track entitled Another World, is a live acoustic song about heartache and loss, of reaching out, the fear that words are not enough, about answers to questions and streams that flow to your sea. This is, in anyone’s opinion a breathtaking album, and the rest, we hope, will be history. The album was co-produced with guitarist Gaurav Chintermani and features Lew Hilt, Vasundhara, Michelle Lobo and Arjun Gupta.
Contributor:Jamie Brookerole: Record Label
Contributor:Jamie Brookerole: Artist
Date-issued:2007-06-05
Type:Sound
Entity Type:album
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Source:The Orchard
Source:http://www.theorchard.com/
Language:EnglishVocabulary: dmLanguages
Relation:http://www.jamie-brooke.com
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Has Part:2 The Rubiconnavigate: JAMIEB/GBRQY0700002
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Has Part:4 Poets Dreamnavigate: JAMIEB/GBRQY0700004
Has Part:5 Starry Nightnavigate: JAMIEB/GBRQY0700005
Has Part:6 In Your Armsnavigate: JAMIEB/GBRQY0700006
Has Part:7 Empty Handsnavigate: JAMIEB/GBRQY0700007
Has Part:8 Summer Rainnavigate: JAMIEB/GBRQY0700008
Has Part:9 Falling For Younavigate: JAMIEB/GBRQY0700009
Has Part:10 My Michellenavigate: JAMIEB/GBRQY0700010
Has Part:11 Another Worldnavigate: JAMIEB/GBRQY0700011
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Rights:2007 Jamie Brooke

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