禁用符號禁用符號優秀的藝術家總是特別的。超高的天分，有野心，堅強，任性到總要經歷更多的磨難。但真正的巨星往往是勇敢地做事，不去計較后果。大多數的藝人會選擇走安全既定的路，少數則敢于進入另一個冒險的境地，。他們覺得需要開發自己的藝術天資，所以他們進入另一個不同的領域。Ilse DeLange 就是這些人里的一個。從2003年發行《Clean Up》開始，她就開始做詞做曲，但現在，聽她現在的唱片The Great Escape，你會驚奇的發現她有跨越性的進步。她敢于表達以前從來沒有表達過的、一種難以置信的感情。沒有人能超過她，華麗優美的歌和生命，愛和世界圍繞著她，歌唱、低語、吶喊……仿佛都圍繞在聽歌人的周圍——她的心都傳達給她的聽眾。Ilse DeLange從來不愿意成為第二，因為這個原因，她在美國納什維爾發行的首張唱片World Of Hurt (1998)，記錄了一個非比尋常的荷蘭藝術家的足跡。以后，她的每一張專輯都有不同的東西顯現出來，顯示著她的努力、她的與眾不同……今年發行的這張The Great Escape，可以說快要達到了一個完美的極至。

Great artists are always special people. Enormously talented, ambitious, tenacious, headstrong and always willing to go the extra mile. But only the real superstars are courageous, even reckless. Most artists choose the well trodden path of proven success, few dare venture into uncharted territory. They feel the need to always develop their talents, and so they boldly go where they’ve never gone before. They don’t want any restrictions in any way when expressing themselves, and so they spread their wings. Ilse DeLange is one of those courageous ones. Listen to her new album The Great Escape and marvel at the giant leap forward this singer, songwriter and musician has taken since her previous CD Clean Up (2003). She dares to express herself like never before, showing an incredible range of emotions. Never holding back in thirteen gloriously beautiful songs about life, love and the world around her, Ilse sings, whispers, shouts if need be to reach her audience – straight from her heart to theirs.

Ilse DeLange has never settled for second best. For this reason she recorded her debut album World Of Hurt (1998) in Nashville – an unusual step for a Dutch artist. She worked with the most renowned musicians of the city. And she asked Barry Beckett, a veritable legend who worked with the likes of Dylan, Dire Straits and Paul Simon, to produce her album. Consequently World Of Hurt sold more than 500.000 copies in the Netherlands alone, making it one of the best selling albums ever. Follow-up album Livin On Love (2000) also turned into an international affair. Ilse travelled to studios in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands and chalked up yet another platinum album. Clean Up (2003) was recorded in the legendary Capitol B studio in Hollywood. Together with producer Bruce Gaitsch and Blue Miller Ilse wrote all of the songs, and once again the album became a smash hit in the Netherlands.

For The Great Escape Ilse DeLange very much wanted to work with her favourite producer Patrick Leonard: “I just love Patrick’s production of Elton John’s Songs From The West Coast. It’s a record with a sixties sound to it that really appeals to me. And I thought Jewel’s album Spirit was stunning, I really liked the acoustic sound of that one.”

Keyboard player, composer and songwriter Leonard worked with greats like Roger Waters, Rod Stewart and Madonna (a.o. La Isla Bonita, Who’s That Girl, Like a Prayer and Frozen). “I liked how he went to extremes in his work with Madonna. He produced very organic, pure, acoustic, intimate stuff with her, but also Frozen – there is a considerable contrast. I find that fascinating.”

Ilse managed to get an appointment with Patrick Leanard in Los Angeles. “I was pretty nervous, especially since at first Patrick didn’t seem to know who I was and what I wanted from him. But we hit it off right away and that same afternoon we wrote our first song together, Carry Hope, that actually made it onto the album.

Ilse DeLange and Patrick Leonard inspired each other enormously: “Every day that we worked together we wrote a song. He is such a virtuoso musician, whenever he played the piano or came up with sounds from his electronic keyboards, he immediately inspired me to write melodies and lyrics. And in doing so often a new song was born within only a couple of hours.”

“The title track The Great Escape is about an impossible love: you both want to be happy together, but that won’t work because of the differences in your personalities. But everyone has his or her own ideas about the meaning of this song. The Great Escape, it’s a title that lends itself to all kinds of different interpretations. And who knows, it’s very likely that it is about Ilse DeLange herself, who spreads her musical wings on this album to boldly go where she has have never gone before, courageously, even recklessly, by letting her creativity flow without any restrictions. And in so doing, she has come up with the record of a lifetime.
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1.Reach For The Light - Ilse DeLange
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2.The Lonely One - Ilse DeLange
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3.The Great Escape - Ilse DeLange
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4.Was It Love - Ilse DeLange
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5.And I Always Will - Ilse DeLange
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6.Miss Politician - Ilse DeLange
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7.Don - Ilse DeLange
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8.Carry Hope - Ilse DeLange
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9.Waterfall - Ilse DeLange
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10.Far Away - Ilse DeLange
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11.I Love You - Ilse DeLange
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12.The Valley - Ilse DeLange
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13.When - Ilse DeLange
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