Stop listening tanita tikaram biography
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The Cappuccino Songs
1998 studio album by Tanita Tikaram
The Cappuccino Songs is the sixth studio album by British singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram, released by Mother in 1998.
Background
[edit]"It sounds clichéd but there is something romantic about the entire Mediterranean lifestyle. Cappuccino is not just a drink, the whole culture around it is sexy."
—Tanita Tikaram discussing the album's central theme.[1]
In 1996, Tikaram left WEA, her label of eight years, and spent some time pursuing other interests than music, including art and travel. For her next studio album, Tikaram decided to re-evaluate her musical direction and reinvent her image. She signed to a new label, Mother Records, and found new management. On this album, Tikaram chose to work with Italian musician Marco Sabiu, who produced the album and co-wrote seven of the tracks. The two had first worked together in 1996, when Sabiu and his producing partner Charlie Mallozzi (known collectively as The Rapino Brothers) produced Tikaram's version of "And I Think of You - E penso a te", which was included on The Best of Tanita Tikaram. The pair's collaboration resulted in an album with a distinctively poppier, more electronic sound than Tikaram's earlier folk-rock releases.&# • • 1998 single by Tanita Tikaram "Stop Listening" is a song by British singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram, which was released in 1998 as the lead single from her sixth studio album The Cappuccino Songs. The song was written by Tikaram and Marco Sabiu, and produced by Sabiu. "Stop Listening" reached No. 67 on the UK Singles Chart and remained in the Top 100 for two weeks.[2] "Stop Listening" was Tikaram's first recording for her new record label, Mother Records. Included as b-sides on the single are re-recorded "electronic" versions of her hit singles "Good Tradition" and "Twist in My Sobriety", and the previously unreleased "The Feeling Is Gone". In a 1998 Polydor press release, Tikaram described "Stop Listening" as being "about still loving somebody with whom you have nothing left in common, being pulled this way and that way. Not being able to speak to somebody who you love is so awful."[3] Upon its release as a single, Music Week announced that Tikaram is "back with a richer, fuller sound" and commented, "She's as dark and moody as ever, conveying her thoughts with her trademark breathy style, and the introduction of strings by producer Marco Sabiu adds a new layer to her sound. Matching the success of
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