She added: "It stretches you. As it happened Mike and I did write a couple of new ones, but the general idea was to find songs by great writers such as Ron Sexsmith ('Gold In Them Hills') and a favourite song of mine, originally recorded by Bonnie Raitt ('Too Long At The Fair') plus some more well-known ones like Keeping The Dream Alive."
The record will serve as the follow-up to Melua's 2010 album The House, which reached number four on the UK album chart.
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本辑收录十一首细腻打造的歌曲，每首都是展现她独特嗓音的一时之选：包括法国六零年代创作才女Françoise Hardy所演唱的《All Over The World》、加拿大民谣创作歌手Ron Sexsmith于2003年发表的《Gold In Them Hills》、由Eric Clapton与 Rod Stewart, Janis Joplin, B.B. King等无数知名歌手翻唱演绎过的《Nobody Knows You》、以及翻唱英伦摇滚乐团Travis主唱单飞专辑裡的《Moonshine》。才华洋溢的凯特玛露在本辑创作曲《Forgetting All My Troubles》亦将情感表现得淋漓尽致；而专辑的同歌曲《Secret Symphony》与《The Walls Of The World》，以及2首主打歌《Better Than A Dream》、《The Bit That I Don’t Get》则都是由她的恩师麦可贝特所一手操刀完成。凯特说:“在我发现我想要录制这张专辑时，就如同呼吸般地简单自然。”这张由麦克贝特掌舵录制工作的专辑，将又是一张展现凯特无与伦比的美丽声线，并且闪烁著独特耀眼光芒的音乐专辑。
The album was recorded at Air Studios in London in collaboration with orchestrator and conductor Mike Batt.
Melua said in a statement: "This album was going to be my 'singer's album'. I had always wanted to do this one day; singing other people's songs brings something out of you and your voice that isn't perhaps where you would have gone vocally with your own material."
She added: "It stretches you. As it happened Mike and I did write a couple of new ones, but the general idea was to find songs by great writers such as Ron Sexsmith ('Gold In Them Hills') and a favourite song of mine, originally recorded by Bonnie Raitt ('Too Long At The Fair') plus some more well-known ones like Keeping The Dream Alive."
The record will serve as the follow-up to Melua's 2010 album The House, which reached number four on the UK album chart.
