Tanita Tikaram To Drink The Rainbow

This September sees feted singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram celebrate her 50th birthday with the release of a brand new collection of 14 songs spanning over thirty years and nine albums. To Drink The Rainbow is the third release on Needle Mythology - the label co-founded by record collector, music writer and broadcaster Pete Paphides. The songs included on To Drink The Rainbow were specially mastered at Abbey Road for 180g vinyl. The album has been pressed by Vinyl Factory at the legendary pressing plant in Hayes (formerly EMI).

Five CD clamshell box set. Featuring singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram's first five albums, all of her studio recordings made for WEA and EastWest, recorded between 1988 and 1995. Remastered and including many bonus tracks including B-sides, radio edits and original material. Tanita Tikaram is supporting this release and has provided exclusive album introductions and track-by-track annotations for the 24-page booklet. The booklet also includes many rare photos and memorabilia. Each disc is housed in a card recreation of the original album sleeve and features the original label design. The first two discs are expanded versions of the Top Three albums 'Ancient Heart' (2 x Platinum) and 'The Sweet Keeper' (Gold). These albums were worldwide hits. The other discs include the critically acclaimed 'Everybody's Angel', 'Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness' and the 'Lovers In The City' albums, all which feature many legendary musicians including Rod Argent, Jennifer Warnes, Carol Kenyon, Jim Keltner and Helen O'Hara. Tanita Tikaram has just finished recording her much anticipated new album, details of which will be shared shortly. She continues to regularly play live throughout the world.

Tanita Tikaram made a splash on both sides of the Atlantic at a mere 19 years old with her dramatic, singer/songwriter-influenced lyrics. The offspring of Malaysian and Fijian parents, Tikaram moved to England at age 12 and began writing songs as a teenager. She played her first gig at 17 in London after a favorable response to her demo tape from a club she had sent it to. After appearing on television, Tikaram was signed to Warner and released Ancient Heart, co-produced by Rod Argent and Peter Van Hooke, in 1988. Both "Twist in My Sobriety" and "Good Tradition" were hits in Europe, and Tikaram toured the world. With the follow-up album, 1990's The Sweet Keeper, Tikaram began to settle into the status of a cult act, a situation not changed by the less consistent albums Everybody's Angel (1991) and Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1992). Still, Tikaram began to bounce back in 1995 with the album Lovers in the City; she moved to Polygram for 1998's The Cappuccino Songs.