Ten Lives

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Ten Lives
Ten Lives album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1 July 2008
Genre Jazz; Singer-songwriter
Length39:51
Label Real World Records/Bowers and Wilkins
Gwyneth Herbert chronology
Between Me and the Wardrobe
(2006)
Ten Lives
(2008)
All the Ghosts
(2009)

Ten Lives, the fourth album by British singer-songwriter and jazz musician Gwyneth Herbert, was released on 1 July 2008. [1]

Contents

History

In early 2008, Herbert was commissioned by a collaborative project between Peter Gabriel and Bowers & Wilkins to record an acoustic album at Gabriel's Real World Studios. [2] The result of these sessions – Ten Lives – was released as a digital download in July 2008, [3] available only from the Bowers & Wilkins website as part of their Music Club. The music was later made available for downloading from other music websites. [1]

Remixed versions of these songs, all written by Herbert, formed the basis of her 2009 album All the Ghosts . [4]

Track listing

NoTitleLyrics and musicLength
1"So Worn Out"Gwyneth Herbert3:36
2"My Narrow Man"Gwyneth Herbert3:37
3"Lorelei"Gwyneth Herbert3:39
4"Nataliya"Gwyneth Herbert2:59
5"Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is"Gwyneth Herbert4:42
6"Petite Cacahuète"Gwyneth Herbert3:27
7"Jane Into A Beauty Queen"Gwyneth Herbert3:04
8"My Mini and Me"Gwyneth Herbert4:34
9"Si C'est ça"Gwyneth Herbert2:54
10 "Some Days I Forget"Gwyneth Herbert3:34
11 "Midnight Oil"Gwyneth Herbert3:35Total length = 39:51 [1]

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