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When a song called Fall on Me, appeared on Johnnie Walkers Drive Time show on BBC Radio 2, he was inundated with e-mails wanting to know who this
new singer songwriter was, where they could find out about her, and most importantly would he please play more.
For more songs go to www.janetaylor.co.uk
He had so many requests that he plugged her website the next day, and informed the listeners that it was taken from Montpelier a debut album by a singer
songwriter called Jane Taylor who was from Bristol and who had released her album under her own label, Bicycle Records.
One live Radio 2 session later, and a distribution deal followed alongside a national release of the album and support slots with Bill Wyman,
Jools Holland, Paul Buchanan, Seth Lakeman and Paolo Nutini. And.having just released her second album 'Compass' which she recorded with with Mercury nominee Producer Colin Elliot, one of Bristol's finest singer songwriters is truly on her way.
But the journey really started some three years earlier in 2002 when she decided to give up life and work in the real world and focus her attention on the
fact that shed been writing songs since she was little, and maybe there was something in that.
Walking into a Bristol studio to record her first single she fantastically bumped in to Angelo Bruschini, the guitarist from Massive Attack who was so
intrigued by her sound that he offered to play guitar for her. The single was called Blowing This Candle out, and it became the first recorded track of her
EP, Barefoot, which she went on to release at Ronnie Scotts. She booked her first UK tour and together with local BBC radio interviews and live sessions
she began to build up her fanbase across the UK.
In 2003 she won the International competition Reach and, supported by her band, toured Ireland with three other bands from the USA and Canada. She then went
on to win both the UK and the International Song writing Competition, again with her single 'Blowing This Candle Out', in the singer/songwriter category
where no less than 11,000 people entered.
She also had a live session in London filmed for the Performance Channel and and her song 'Getting To Me' got included on the soundtrack for Sony Televisions
DVD of the hit TV series 'Dawsons Creek'.
More recently, the opening track from 'Montpelier' appeared on MTV in America and was also featured on a CD produced by 'The Word' magazine.
The fact that she's opened for some Great British Legends may not come as a complete surprise when you see her perform live. The fact that she has achieved
all these things as an independent artist and label, however, is really something to consider.
And a year and a half later, Jane's new album ‚Compass' has finally been released. It was created in Sheffield at Yellow Arch Studio's with Colin Elliot,
(particularly famous for his work on Richard Hawley's 'Coles Corner' album), it features an eclectic mix of aural delights. Classical Vaughan Williams style
strings, a Steinway piano, a Gospel choir singing with half the Hawley band, the Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band (who appeared in the Ewan McGregor film
'Brassed Off'), a music box, Ukulele's and a rhythm track made up of everything from rustling rubbish bins to the cellist making a sound of a Dolphin. It's
all going on.
The album was released on October 3rd 2008, in Bristol's converted church, Circomedia. Jane is currently touring the UK promoting her album.catch her if you can. It'll be well worth the price of the ticket
' Jane Taylor is no ordinary singer songwriter. She has this intangible magic in her voice. The kind that draws you in and holds you right there until the
moment you notice that you've forgotten to breathe and then you hear her words (which bizarrely seem to have been written for you), and stand there
transfixed like its a bit of fate that brought you here and I will defy anyone not to leave without a CD or at least humming one of her songs' - Get Rhythm.
Have a listen and decide for yourself.and check out the reviews on Amazon
This album proves without a doubt that this determinedly independent artist should eclipse her more manufactured competitors. The album was funded by fans who pre-bought it: it was a wise investment. Beautiful. - Music Week
