Tanita Tikaram - Ancient Heart - 1988 (24/96 Vinyl Rip)

Tanita Tikaram started singing in nightclubs while she was still a teenager and got the attention of WEA Records. Her debut album Ancient Heart, produced by Rod Argent and Peter Van Hooke, was released in September 1988 when she was 19 years old. It became an international hit and led to a world tour. The singles "Good Tradition" and "Twist In My Sobriety" were top 10 hits in Europe.

"This album "Ancient Heart" is her great debut album and an excellent recording. Enjoy!"




Prof. Review:

Singer/songwriter Tanita Tikaram's debut album, Ancient Heart, stands as one of the most underappreciated albums of the 1980s, and she, along with Tracy Chapman, preceded the 1990s' onslaught of female singer/songwriters by almost a decade. Tikaram, who was only 19 when this album was released, created a melancholy and wistful work, mature beyond her years, of startling originality and honesty. While this album may be considered folkish and artsy, it never stoops to the clichés that dominated those styles of music in the later Lilith Fair years.

Her near perfect signature song "Twist in My Sobriety" is a stark, sinuous, desperate torch song that managed to garner a bit of radio and video airplay in its day and sounded like nothing else then or since. Other highlights include the lovely and more upbeat "Cathedral Song," "World Outside Your Window," and "Good Tradition"," as well as the jazzy "For All the Years" and the haunting "I Love You" and "Valentine Heart" – the latter being one of the album's true highlights.

Ancient Heart is a smoky, world-weary album, that, years after its initial release, does not sound one bit dated and has effortlessly stood the test of time. The definite highlight of Tanita Tikaram's career.
Jose F. Promis - Allmusic.com - AMG Album Pick - 4,5/5


Track List:

01 Good Tradition
02 Cathedral Song
03 Sighing Innocents
04 I Love You
05 World Outside Your Window
06 For All These Years

07 Twist in My Sobriety
08 Poor Cow
09 He Likes the Sun
10 Valentine Heart
11 Preyed Upon