California (Import) (CD)

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• Release Date: March 24, 2003
• Label: Naive
• UPC: 3298490414118
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106103222
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Personnel: Perry Blake (vocals, keyboards, background vocals); Ben Blakeman (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Glenn Garrett (acoustic guitar); Ken Rice (violin); Marco Sabiu (strings, piano, keyboards, programming); Lucy Wilkins, Sophie Sirota, Howard Gott, Vincent Greene, Dickon Hinchliffe, Emmanuel Tondus, Kela Canka, Noel Vine, Ruth Gottlieb, Gjeci Red, Caroline Hubeau, Julien Deboue, Christopher Koh, Hila Mondi, Velia Evis, Ariana Siani, Rob Spriggs, Natalia Bonner, Sara Wilson, Oliver Kraus, Jonathan Meyer, Andy Nice, Catherine Browning (strings); Enrico Farnedi (trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn); Rik Carter (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Graham Murphy (piano, keyboards, programming); Neil Conti (drums, percussion); Sharon Eusebe (background vocals).

Audio Mixers: Tom Slegers; Mister Big Jo Francken; Sandro Scala.

Recording information: Canile Facilities, Italy; Livingston Studios, London, England; MotorMusic, Belgium; The Production Suite, Dublin, Ireland.

Director: Dickon Hinchliffe.

Photographer: St‚phane Gallois.

Arrangers: Marco Sabiu; Graham Murphy.

California continues to be the fountain of something for a lot of people. Whether it be youth, riches, stardom, or happiness; California is something that only dreamers know about. Perry Blake is one of those slumberers, and his third album is named after the place of hope and fantasy. He and Italian producer Marco Sabiu arrive at a classy, smooth set of songs for Blake's most realized style and sound yet. California finds Blake at ease with himself as a singer and as a songwriter; the "freeness" of each song is impressionable, as Blake surrounds himself in his own modern pop world. Blake allows his own genre-blending sound to fully take shape without too much production. He and Sabiu have redefined conventional pop music to suit themselves, carefully crafting an album suited for those sophisti-pop fans, with songs like "Saying Goodbye," and "This Life" highlighting Blake's fresh confidence. His wavering falsetto has matured on songs such as "The Road to Hollywood" and "A Face in the Crowd," while also hinting at California's wildly imaginative set of songs. Blake has made a solid pop album, and it's fit to fight off other pop crooners like Ronan Keating and Robbie Williams, but it's manicured and suited for an adult contemporary audience, as well. ~ MacKenzie Wilson

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