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Feature: Jack Foley
DETERMINED, unique and undoubtedly gifted Imogen Heap is to release
of her second solo album, Speak For Yourself, on July
25th.
The single, Hide And Seek, was the main track on the
season finale of The OC recently and, since the UK screening,
has catapulted into the top 20 of I Tunes.
Here are some quick facts about Imogen to get you in the mood
for Speak For Yourself…
1) Armed with Pro-Tools, some geeky toys and a room full of instruments
ranging from a cello to carpet tubes in her South London studio,
she wrote, recorded and produced every note of her album herself.
Imogen treats her unique voice like another instrument by layering
up and arranging the many vocal parts that intertwine in and around
each other.
2) Imogen had many major labels wishing to sign her, however she
boldly decided to re-mortgage her flat, record the album and release
then Speak for yourself on her own label Megaphonic.
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3) Lead single Hide And Seek
is already taking the States by storm. One week after it was played-out
in the closing sequence to the season 2 finale of cult drama series,
The O.C., in a prize slot which last season used Jeff Buckley’s
Hallelujah, Hide And Seek climbed to No.32 in
the Official Billboard Hot 100 Download Chart shot up to no.1
in the iTunes USA Electronic chart.
4) Hide and Seek – which was only available on
iTunes had 9,700 downloads in the first week alone and more impressively,
gave Megaphonic the only independently-released track in the entire
Hot 100 chart for that week. As a direct result of The OC’s
broadcast in USA Imogen received over 50,000 hits to her site.
5) Imogen’s gigged with many artists including Rufus Wainwright,
Royksopp, Lamb and Coldplay.
6) Zack Braff (writer/director/leading man) of the hit movie
Garden State personally
selected Frou Frou’s (imogen’s band with Guy Sigsworth)
Let Go for the Grammy award-winning soundtrack to the
film.
7) Imogen’s tracks have also been featured on such US cult
shows as CSI and Six Feet Under. A song recorded for Six Feet
Under is on the current SFU Soundtrack. Imogen’s song Goodnight
and Go is also on The OC mix 4 CD released earlier this year.
Speak For Yourself
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