CLARE
TEAL
PARADISI CAROUSEL

Released 21st May
Clare Teal releases her eagerly awaited second Sony BMG album Paradisi
Carousel on 21st May. Produced by Chris Hughes, whose credits include
Tears for Fears, Enya and Paul McCartney amongst many others, it is
a rich album of succulent tunes highlighting Clare's velvet lined voice.
Paradisi Carousel takes Clare in a new direction, whilst honouring
her jazz background, she has evolved musically to reveal a wealth of
hidden riches. The new album sits confidently alongside those of Norah
Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae and Madeleine Peyroux.
This sublime album successfully confirms Clare as not just a great
vocalist, but as one of the UK's foremost singer songwriters. Across
songs like Baby I'm Coming Home, Missing You and the title track, she
sounds elegant, regal and full of warmth, with a vocal empathy that
makes each arch of every last note an arch worth savouring. Her version
of The Four Tops' Reach Out (I'll Be There) meanwhile, is divine, a
slow motion re-reading of the Motown classic that she makes entirely
her own.
"This album is my Bacharach period," Clare explains, "all
big chords, nice tunes and harmonies, a bit of Carpenters here, some
Dusty Springfield there."
Clare Teal topped the British Jazz charts and cracked the UK Top 20
with her last album Don't Talk. She has won several prestigious awards,
including British Jazz Vocalist of the Year 2005 and BBC Jazz Vocalist
of the year 2006.
Clare's brand new tour sees her playing 13 dates across the country,