Awake

Josh Groban
Herbie Hancock
Label: Reprise / WEA
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Audio CD
Release date:7th November 2006

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Track Listing

1. Mai Lyrics
2. You Are Loved (Don't Give Up) Lyrics
3. Un Dia Llegara Lyrics
4. February Song Lyrics
5. L'Ultima Notte
6. So She Dances
7. In Her Eyes Lyrics
8. Solo Por Ti
9. Now Or Never Lyrics
10. Un Giorno Per Noi Lyrics
11. Lullaby -- w/ Ladysmith Black Mambazo
12. Weeping -- w/ Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Vusi Mahlasela
13. Machine -- w/ Herbie Hancock Lyrics

Album Description

The Josh Groban phenomenon continues with Awake, his third studio album. Both of the extraordinary singer's first two studio discs have been certified five times platinum, with his most recent, 2003's Closer, charting #1 pop. His uplifting music rises ever higher on Awake.

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Josh Groban is making it hard for anybody who can't say "classical crossover" without smirking to maintain an acceptable level of snobbery. Awake, his third studio disc and arguably his most personal--he co-wrote four tracks and favors his native English over Italian--boasts as many bold names as any tricked-out hip-hop disc: Dave Matthews, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Imogen Heap, and Herbie Hancock contribute in various capacities, and a slew of behind-the-scenes collaborators best known for their work in mainstream pop circles deepen the dimensions of a style widely considered claustrophobic. For all the studio doors that got opened to create Awake, though, Groban's signature sound never once slipped out to take the air; "the voice"--that hypnotic, spun-silk wonder of an instrument--is as concentrated as ever, and Awake, in addition to showing off its many splendors, serves as a vehicle for parading its versatility around. While "Un Giorno Per Noi," the deeply romantic theme to the 1968 film Romeo E Giulietta, delivers the Groban that fueled the sale of 16 million previous discs to soft-hearted fans, "Machine," with Hancock, gives up a new form of funk: dignified, classy, and surprisingly unstiff. --Tammy La Gorce

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