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Released: Jul 23, 2010
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  • Genre: Acoustic / Country / Rock

    Location Arnhem, Please select your region, Ne

    Profile Views: 259549

    Last Login: 1/25/2012

    Member Since 8/30/2006

    Website www.ilsedelange.co.uk

    Record Label Universal Music

    Type of Label Major

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    Vooralsnog alles op tijd.... London here I come, we start boarding now:-)

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    Vandaag naar Londen! Ik heb zin om de hele week in de studio liedjes te maken met @sachaskarbek it's gonna be a great week!

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Ilse DeLange – Next To Me
‘Next to me’ is the title of a brand new 8-track studio album by singer/songwriter Ilse DeLange. Together with producer Lyle Workmen, Ilse went to Nashville to return with a balanced selection of perfect country/pop songs. ilsedelange.com - Ilse on MySpace.

Remarkably, Next To Me contains only eight songs. This is not the result of a lack of material - on the contrary - it is a conscious and deliberate choice of the singer. “First of all, these eight songs fit together perfectly,” Ilse explains. “What’s more, I’d like to break free from the process of making a record and going on tour with it for two years. I’d like to switch more freely between playing live, writing songs and recording them more frequently. I want to surprise people”.

For Next to Me, Ilse did a number of interesting co-writes. Title song and first single ‘Next To Me’ was written with the guys of Macho Psycho and Nate Campany. “It’s a positive song about how good you can feel with somebody at your side, someone you can count on.”

She wrote ‘Beautiful Distraction’ with Jeff Cohen. She had never met him before, but he came highly recommended by another writing partner, Sacha Skarbek. While she was in Nashville, they met three times by coincidence before sitting down together to write this personal, sensitive song – literally a few hours after the two had met.

Intriguing is the lovely song ‘Time Out’, which is a beautiful mix of Ilse’s voice, piano and violin. “I wrote this song with Blair Mackichan,” she explains. “We’ve made it a bit less jazzy than the original version. At first, I wanted it to sound larger than life and bombastic with the entire band, but it didn’t work. So we went back to a more intimate setting and it has become very personal now. It questions whether or not it’s good to take a break in a relationship. It’s a song with a question mark,” she explains.

All songs on Next to Me, are beautifully orchestrated and have a pure and organic feel to them. “I went back to how I once started out as an artist: jamming with a band in the studio on the basis of a few ragged demos with just a guitar and vocals. These songs simply needed that approach.”
Ilse explains that the album was recorded in Nashville for two reasons: the amazing studios over there, and the fact that she was determined to work with pedal steel guitarist Paul Franklin (Dire Straits, Sting, Barbra Streisand). “The songs that were in my head all had pedal steel in them. So I had to hook up with Paul Franklin, who lives in Nashville.”

By releasing an 8-track, Ilse forces herself to come up with new material more often. But she has all the faith in the world that it is going to work. “It’s a new challenge, and I’ve already written a ton of new songs. It feels good to have more variation and if I translate things that happen to me directly into new songs, it’ll make the songs more relevant”.
(August 2010)


Ilse DeLange - Discography
Ilse DeLange has never settled for second best. She recorded her debut album World Of Hurt (1998) in Nashville, an unusual step for a Dutch artist. She worked with the most celebrated musicians in the city, and asked Barry Beckett, a veritable legend who worked with the likes of Dylan, Dire Straits and Paul Simon, to produce her album. Consequently, World Of Hurt has sold more than 500.000 copies in the Netherlands alone, making it one of the best selling albums ever.

Follow-up album Livin On Love (2000) also turned into an international affair. Ilse travelled to recording studios in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands, and chalked up yet another platinum album.
Clean Up (2003) was recorded in the legendary Capitol B studio in Hollywood. Ilse co-wrote the songs with producers Bruce Gaitsch and Blue Miller, and once again the album became a smash hit in the Netherlands. For The Great Escape (2006), she was determined to work with her favorite producer Patrick Leonard, who has worked with great artists like Roger Waters, Rod Stewart and Madonna. Ilse met Leonard in early 2004 and travelled back and forth to the States to write songs with him and her previous producer Bruce Gaitsch. With this many songs to choose from, The Great Escape ended up being an album of many different flavors and got Ilse her first #1 hit single.
On her fifth studio album Incredible (2008) Ilse worked with producer Lyle Workmen (Sting, Beck, Todd Rundgren) and with interesting co-writers such as Swedish production duo Macho Psycho, Luke Potasnick and Sacha Skarbek. The album became triple platinum and Ilse received awards for Best Singer, Best Album, Best single and Best Live Act. Carrying 3 massive hit singles, Incredible was another very successful album and a major step forward in Ilse’s career.

Next to Me (2010) is Ilse DeLange’s sixth studio album. Together with producer Lyle Workmen Ilse returned to Nashville to record an 8-track album containing a balanced selection of perfect country/pop songs. Ilse breaks with the traditional routine of touring and recording in a two year cycle - the new 8-track format enables her to record her new songs more frequently.

Ilse also released a Best Of album, a live-album of John Hiatt covers, a live recording of her performance at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam and a CD/DVD ‘Live in Ahoy’

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