Artist: Carmen Gomes Inc.
Album: Little Blue
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2015
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 42:36
Total Tracks: 10
Total Size: 827 MB

Tracklist:

1. Carmen Gomes Inc. – Holding back the years (05:02)
2. Carmen Gomes Inc. – Wouldn’t change a thing (04:33)
3. Carmen Gomes Inc. – Only you can (03:34)
4. Carmen Gomes Inc. – Needle and the damage done (02:51)
5. Carmen Gomes Inc. – Little girl blue (04:19)
6. Carmen Gomes Inc. – A Better man (03:24)
7. Carmen Gomes Inc. – Until you’re ready (04:38)
8. Carmen Gomes Inc. – Soul (03:37)
9. Carmen Gomes Inc. – Don’t miss you (06:10)
10. Carmen Gomes Inc. – Brass in Pocket (04:25)

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Little Blue is a collection of songs that I feel strongly about. Songs of my youth that made an lingering impression and original compositions, some written a long time ago; some only recently.
They all deal with topics of everyday life that keeps my mind occupied: the choices we make, how we define ourselves and how we deal with life in general.I was a reasonably happy but lonely kid. I felt myself an outsider, a bit different, maybe to a certain extend excluded. Making up for this, I locked myself in my room and listened to music, singing along with every song. I developed a taste for artists that were more ”deep”…. Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Neil Young. There was something in their voices that touched me, some emotion that I recognized.

I internalized all of Neil Young’s lyrics; they made a huge impact on me and served as a heavy influence on the lyrics that I started writing myself. Billie’s voice still tears me apart.
Growing up, I came across songs that stuck with me. Holding Back the years and Brass in Pocket for example. I strongly related to the lyrics. I could almost smell them. Songs about love in all it’s splendour and compassion. Songs about addiction, inequality and loneliness. Songs about the eternal search for an answer. I’m a grown woman now, a mother, experienced, but still searching.

To sing a song I need to picture the story of the lyrics in my head; I have to feel them. If I can’t feel them, I can’t sing them. And how can I expect you to believe what I am singing if I don’t feel it myself? So you can say that the songs on this album are very personal, very close.

Carmen Gomes