Name: Recollection
Brand: KD Lang

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7559797986

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2010-01-21

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Warner Music Group

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3 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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KD Lang

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Meticulously curated box sets featuring exceptional audio quality, stunning visuals, and exclusive bonus content. Explore genres, eras, and artists to find the perfect addition to your collection.

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deluxe triple cd and one dvd set. kd lang is a once-in-a-generation artist who has consistently displayed an extraordinary interpretative range as well as remarkable vocal prowess. it's no wonder she has, over the course of more than two decades, attracted such collaborators as roy orbison and tony bennett, along with admirers like philip glass and madonna. as lang has matured, she continues to surprise and impress. this three-disc / one dvd retrospective - which includes favourites like 'constant craving' and 'smoke rings', as well as ten tracks that never appeared on kd lang albums; and interpretations of classic songs like leonard cohen's 'hallelujah' and the hollies 'the air that i breathe' - illustrates how lang got to this significant point in her career, 25 years after the independent release of her debut, 'a truly western experience'. as lang moved from the subversively whimsical cow-punk sound of her early career in western canada to a broader pop palette, she has shown an ever-increasing sophistication, both as songwriter and interpreter. dramatic, country-meets-lounge opener 'trail of broken hearts', from her 1989 grammy award-winning 'absolute torch and twang' album, encapsulates where she came from and where she was heading. the luxurious adult pop of 'constant craving', from the platinum-selling 1992 ingenue, garnered her a best pop vocal performance, female grammy and remains her best known and most successful single. the effervescent 'miss chatelaine', also from ingenue, remains a concert favourite and 'i dream of spring', is a particularly lush example of what she so artfully created for the acclaimed 'watershed'. her bravura rendition of 'crying', originally cut with orbison for the soundtrack to the movie hiding out, has become a showstopper in her live performances, perhaps rivalled only be her beautifully restrained version of leonard cohen's 'hallelujah'. this soaring signature tune appears here as both a new recording, and in its original studio version. on her 2004 nonesuch debut, 'hymns of the 49th parallel', she explored the work of her fellow canadian songwriters, including neil young ('helpless') and the woefully underrated jane siberry (the sublime 'the valley'). regardless of its source, her choice of cover material has always been inspired, as evidenced by her take on the hollies' 'the air that i breathe', joni mitchell's 'help me', the beatles' 'golden slumbers', and chris isaak's 'western stars', produced by nashville legend owen bradley, patsy cline's mentor, for shadowlands. lang is equally adept with such standards as cole porter's 'love for sale' and 'so in love', and the jazz classic 'moonglow' (performed here with tony bennett), and that has endeared her to a multi-generational audience. her work is regularly featured in movies, but her most powerful work in the visual medium has been those songs she has created especially for films. she collaborated with composer bob telson (gospel at colonus) on 'barefoot', the haunting theme of filmmaker percy adlon's cult classic, salmonberries. with siberry, she wrote the incantatory 'calling all angels', from the 1991 soundtrack to wim wenders' 'until the end of the world', a song that has had a deservedly long life on its own. 'recollection' tells the story of this singular artist's evolution, from brash 'angel with a lariat' to supremely elegant, yet still reassuringly down to earth, pop icon.

Recollection

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