Joss Stone: Colour Me Free!  

Polyeast Records / EMI Music International  proudly announces the release of Colour Me Free!, the new album from English soul & R & B singer/songwriter and actress Joss Stone. The album features her current single “Free Me”. 

Stone rose to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut covers album, The Soul Sessions, which got included in the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist. Hits from that album include her take on The White Stripes' "Fell in Love with a Boy" and "  Super Duper Love (Are You Digging on Me)". Her sophomore effort, the equally Mind, Body & Soul, reached the top of the UK Albums Chart for a week and generated the top ten hit "You Had Me", Stone's most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date. Both album and single each garnered a nomination each at the 47th Grammy Awards in 2005, while Stone herself was nominated for Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2004 was ranked fifth as a predicted breakthrough act of 2004. She became the youngest British female singer to top the UK Albums Chart in history to have her debut album at number one. Stone's third album, Introducing Joss Stone, released in 2007, achieved gold record status and yielded the second-ever highest debut for a British female solo artist on the Billboard 200.  

Throughout her career, Stone has sold over 10 million albums worldwide records; altogether, she has sold more albums than any other female British soul singer during the current decade. Her first three albums have sold over 2,722,000 copies in the US, while her first two albums have sold over 2,000,000 copies in UK. Stone has won two BRIT Awards and one Grammy Award. 

" Colour Me Free " is an excellent, and often impressive, album, proving she's at very least in step with the best of her peers. Raphael Saadiq - who produces and co-writes here, and has worked with everyone from Stevie Wonder to Prince and D'Angelo, told Yahoo! Music earlier this year: " I've been around a lot of soulful people, and she has it. She opens up her mouth to sing, and you feel it “. 

From scorching come-ons ("4 And 20") via pastiches worthy of Stevie Wonder ("Parallel Lines") and Al Green ("Big O'l Game"), to powerful hip hop/funk conspiracy theory-cum-protest songs ("Governmentalist"), she delivers a series of consummate turns full of skill, quality and, yes, heart-pounding, natural, poignant soul. It's difficult to find somebody else these days who has the same span of technique, graceful control of their art, or profundity of material as Joss Stone. 

Colour Me Free in out now in Cd’s nationwide at Php 350 under PolyEast Records, a licensee of EMI Music International.

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Norah Jones Is Back with The Fall 
 
Critically-acclaimed and muli-awarded singer/songwriter Norah Jones is back with her much-awaited fourth album The Fall under PolyEast Records/ EMI featuring the new single ''Chasing Pirates''.

30 year old Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, and actress of Anglo-American and Bengali-Indian descent. She is the daughter of guitarist Ravi Shankar and the half-sister of Anoushka Shankar. She first gained prominence with her 2002 debut album Come Away with Me, an adult contemporary vocal jazz album with a soul/folk/country tinge, that received five Grammy Awards, including "Record of the Year" and "Best New Artist". This was followed by her sophomore album, Feels like Home in 2004. In 2007, she released her third album, Not Too Late. She has sold more than 16 million albums in the United States and over 36 million records worldwide; altogether, she has sold more albums than any other female jazz artist during the current decade.

With The Fall, Jones fully accomplishes the evolution away from her smooth cabaret beginnings towards being an artful modern singer/songwriter. Jones began this shift on 2007's Not Too Late, an album that tenderly discarded her propensity for soothing, refined crooning, but The Fall is a solid, more consistent work, sustaining a sophisticatedly wistful state that's authentic to the crooner of Come Away with Me while coming off as categorically less traditionalist. Some of this could be attributed to Jones' choice of producer, Jacquire King, best-known for his work with Modest Mouse and Kings of Leon, but King hardly pushes Norah in a rock direction. The focus is always on Jones' voice and songs, which are once again all originals, sometimes composed in conjunction with collaborators including her longtime colleagues Jesse Harris, Ryan Adams, and Will Sheff of Okkervil River. In addition to King's pedigree, the latter two co-writers suggest a slight indie bent to Jones' direction, which isn't an inaccurate impression but it's easy to overstate the artiness of The Fall. Here, Jones ties up loose ends, unafraid to sound smooth or sultry, letting in just enough dissonance and discord to give this dimension, creating a subtle but rather extraordinary low-key record that functions as a piece of mood music but lingers longer, thanks to its finely crafted songs.

The Fall with the carrier single “Chasing Pirates” is now available in all record bars nationwide at Php 350 under PolyEast Records, A Licensee of EMI Music International.