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Story: Jack Foley
FOLLOWING the double platinum success of her debut album, Whoa,
Nelly!, in 2000, Nelly Furtado releases the much-anticipated
follow up, Folklore,
on November 24.
A record firmly rooted in folk tradition, as the title might
suggest, Folklore is being billed as 'a record that plays on traditional
themes, while remaining modern and fresh in sound'.
According to the singer/songwriter herself: "Folk is universal,
the impulse to pick up a guitar and sing about what surrounds
you exists in every language, every culture, every nation. It's
spontaneous, earthy, family-oriented.
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"The new album plays with those ideas, and we've used instruments
like banjo and accordion and tablas and pipe organ and harp to
represent that."
The first single from the album will be Powerless, released
on December 8.
With a heavy break beat, and banjo throughout, the track is
musically unique, as well as uniquely Nelly.
Comprised of 12 tracks in all, Folklore is packed with the experiences
and discovery that touring the world and becoming a star at the
age of 23 brings, as well as nods to her Portuguese heritage.
After a year spent in LA, Nelly returned to her adopted hometown
of Toronto to record the follow up (she is originally from the
city of Victoria, British Columbia).
Here, she reunited with the production team Track and Field,
with whom she forged such a successful partnership on 'Whoa,
Nelly!'.
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