Hello Everyone,
Sorry for the time lapse delay in getting my Chatelaine project to you, it has been a long old slog believe me. Anyway it is now finally here for you to listen to and love or pick to bits, whatever appeals the most to you.
Alan mixed four of the songs on the Album and Flood and Kurt Feldman from Pains of Being Pure at Heart both did remixes of Broken Bones.
Lou and I spent a while messing around with these tracks and generally got side tracked by small things as you do but we have finally let go and this is what it sounds like on the inside of our heads.
I am starting up my Facebook page and also Twitter so there will be some interesting things coming up in the near future to keep you entertained.
More to come soon,
Toni x
37 Comments
Hey Toni!!
thank you so much for sharing your talent, which always end up into beautiful music.
Loving the new tracks already, especially “Take a Line for a Walk”.
Of the previous tracks, Broken Bones is still my personal favorite from Chatelaine, so i’m very happy to see you choose that song for remixes.
Hope to hear more from you as always, and i wish you the very best in this project
Love,
Chris
Sensational! So glad to see these songs are seeing the light of day. Thanks for sharing Toni!
thought this project may have bit the dust… it’s sooo good to have you back!
Excellent! Your voice has been sorely missed.
Hi,
I found Chatelaine via a tip from a pal on the Bill Nelson forum. I always loved Curve, and I love the sound of this new work. Shifting Sands is brilliant !. Thank you for the stream, and I look forward to hearing more.
Dar
Oh my God Toni!
How patient we have waited for this!
Cant wait to listen to it.
Thanks again, im sure it will be magical
x
Ari
The album exceeds everything you have done so far, it’s just amazing!
I will download right now… but I would really prefer to see you selling the album on cd from this site soon!?
Thank you much Toni for take a line for a walk. Words can’t describe how great it is. It’s quit possibly the best album of 2010 =]
Thanks……..what can i say………soooo good to have you back……..the most marvellous voice in history of pop music…….take care
yes what damon said. i love you and all but i’d much rather buy physical if there will be such a thing
yes! Thank you for this after so long it’s like cool water to parched lips. Eagerly awaiting more… thank you
It’s an amazing recording and well worth the wait. Honestly, the best thing about this work is your voice, Toni. It is at the forefront here, and is in itself its own instrument. Very powerful. The last three songs are an astonishing triptych. ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪
Hi Toni, wonderful to have you back, we missed you. Thanks for the free downloads; worth the wait, going to get the album now. Sounding really good; lush heartbreaking melodies, big soundscapes, romantic in the true sense of the word.
Hi Toni,
Finally, here you are!
Thanks so much for your new project. Terrific songs! I’m very pleased to listen to your voice again.
I’ve been loving Curve since day one and also your side projects like Scylla’s unpublished cd and the Faults’ song with Acid Android for instance.
Chatelaine is an amazing new adventure!
Thank you.
Andrea Lugli
Hi Toni
Congratulations on the new project and album! It is very beautiful and heartfelt and I am so happy you are still creating music. I know its a difficult and arduous process to make an album so I hope it has rekindled your love for music. Hopefully you will decide to play a few gigs with this album, I feel it would be even more stunning/epic live!
I’m listening to the new songs while I’m working on my mac. Thanks again for coming back with such amazing music!
Hope the cd format will be available very soon.
Andrea Lugli
Hi Toni,
I’ve been checking back to the MySpace page on and off for like 2 years !
Glad your album is finally out. Bought it yesterday. Its awesome !!
Love “Life Remains”. Could play that one all day !
Keep up the great work, glad you never lost faith.
Sam.
Oh, fantastic! I can never get enough of your voice, Ms. Halliday. I expect to be playing plenty of Chatelaine on my show.
Is there a North American tour planned any time soon?
I agree with Peter – your voice and style have been SORELY missed! I immersed myself in all the “Curve” music verging on a sweaty obsession!(and I am picky – see my website). I’m really enjoying this beautiful new material. I do hope to hear some harder stuff and I hope you don’t mind me saying that. Flood producing the hard material would be a dream come true…he AND Alan are wonderful. As a composer of cello lines myself, I love the cello ornamentations. Again, love the new work! Thank you so much for putting out new material…a warm welcome back.
Welcome back, Toni,
It took so long and a kind of empty without your voice and vitility. Although, it seems to me, it was yesterday, when I first heard your voice on Turkey Crossing via radio in Bulgaria. Later I had the Cuckoo album I have listened for a long time. Two years later, when I heard you on “Leftftism” – it was (and will always be) a pure magic!!! You’re original!!!
I like your new stuff, but I really miss Curve…Come Clean is one of my all time favs!!!
Well, the hardest part – Is there any chance to get back and cooparate with Dean and to higher up what you have done to a new level? Becouse your music is really unique and (in my oppinion) shouldn’t be ruined… For example, James (my favourite band) has been separated for seven years… But, they managed to get back together and bring their energy to a new level to the world. There are a lot of examples, BTW… You’re ORIGINAL!!!
P.S. And tell Leftfield, that the song, if not sung by you is a crap.
Respect from Sofia, Bulgaria.
Let me say thank you again for the new tracks. Hope this new project will get all the success it deserves.
If you have the chance please have a look at our website, we design books and we’re determined to produce a book about Curve.
Please get in touch. Thanks.
Andrea Lugli
Hey, Toni!
It’s great to have you back in our ears. It’s been way too long.
When is the Chatelaine stuff released on CD? (I can’t be doing with the download thing – it’s killing music more than home-taping ever did!).
Dear Miss_
Please, let me know if I had a chance to buy your new album on cd or lp ? Beautiful voice, good music.
Best Wishes from France.
Olivier Pierre
Love the new tracks, love the new website. I hope to see more photos (and video?) on the site, anything to shed light on your life, music, and creative process.
FINALLY!!! So glad to hear new music from one of my favourite artists and vocalists. It’s been FAR too long – please come back sooner next time! Just purchased on iTunes – and definitely worth the wait. I’m biased – I love all of the new songs. Congratulations on yet another output of great work! I look forward to more in the NEAR future!
xo
d
the new songs,they…are…amazing. absolutely beautiful. i didn’t know if the day would ever come that you would do new music with the state of the music industry. these songs are greater than anything a fan could have ever imagined, and they just get better and better as the tracks go along.
What a pleasure to hear that voice of yours after all this time! Really good album, worth the wait. Loving Stripped Out, Broken Bones and the Depreciation Guild mix! You should seriously get this out on CD, it would sell like hot cakes.
I am so incredibly happy to hear something from you again. I read some interviews with you and your comments about writing, the music industry, coming back with a new direction (?), etc. Hearing your voice and the sound on Broken Bones is absolutely great, and seems clearly linked to your sound in the past, albeit a more mature one. I still recommend Curve to friends looking for something new, but will definitely pass this album on as much as I can. Your voice is incredible. Best of luck –
Shawn
Just found out about Chatelaine yesterday on Last.fm, listened to the album once on the main page here & today bought it on iTunes. So excited to hear great new music from one of the best vocalists of our time, I thought we’d lost you to other pursuits forever! Love the album, excellent work by all involved. Best wishes for the future, but beware because now you’ve given me hope that there will be more to come, hehe. Now following you on Twitter, don’t be a stranger!
So excited Chatelaine has arrived and the album is borne!!!
We love you Toni!!!
x
I’ve been looking for this release for more than a year, and finally I can hear every single track!
No song reminds me about your earlier work within Scylla or Curve (except the synth part and verse in Shifting Sands, more of Recoil tho), but at the same time your voice is still amazing, still original and magical! Piano is quite unusual to hear underneath your voice, but it fits perfectly, no doubt. I also enjoyed lyrics pretty much, they’re quite different and at the same time rhymes perfectly.
Maybe I’m stuck in old-school quite alot but I respect you for your work while not using any of modern influences like most of artists of today do, you’ve really shown how the work should be done with this album.
I still would like to order your album since I’m an addict when it comes to beautiful music, I’m one of those fools who’s proud he had ruined his hearing over listening to Curve Ü
So I’m talking FLACs here man, can’t wait to order your album. I also enjoy the cover, fits the content just fine! Calm and confident.
Be well, Toni, love you!
X
your biggest fan from the largest and coldest country in the world
I love what I’m hearing but I am a bit behind the times and downloading is a bit advanced for me. How can I buy a copy on CD?? Even though I’m only 35, I grew up on cassettes and vinyl… so consider us “oldies”. Mmmmm vinyl… imagine this album on vinyl….I havn’t missed any of your physical purchases over the years and only being able to hear this album from the site and not in my car or from my stereo speakers is agonizing. In the meantime I will try and find a friend who can help me download it. Fingers crossed.
Brilliant work Toni. This album has some kind of peaceful atmosphere, where your voice is just at its right place. Happy also to see Flood remixing Broken Bones…
Yay! Thanks, Toni. We have waited a LONG time for this. Please tour the U.S. if you can.
BTW – going to see a couple friends of yours for a show this Tuesday; Gary Numan and Alan Wilder. I’m stoked – could only be better if you were there as well.
rob
Hello Toni,
I purchased this album back in June and I must say that I think it is wonderful! Each track has its own special quality. It has been rotating in my player for months now and still is. I look forward to whatever you decide to pursue.
Always listening. Love.
Lana
very, very, very good!!
cheers
Hello Toni,
Just bought your album in FLAC, sounds amazing. Thank you for the music — past, present and future. It means a lot for me.
Happy New Year and happy holidays,
From Russia with love,
Alex