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Cherished Canadian crooner Ron Sexsmith will release his new album Forever Endeavour on Feb 4, 2013 on the Cooking Vinyl label. Forever Endeavour features another batch of deftly poetic, gently affecting songs that perfectly distil the pitfalls of being human. This record pairs Sexsmith again with producer Mitchell Froom, who, on numerous records over two decades, has framed Sexsmith's music in its most sympathetic surroundings. Noted for his production work with everyone from Los Lobos to Crowded House, Richard Thompson to American Music Club, Froom produced Ron's first three albums and 2006's ‘Time Being’. The heart of ‘Forever Endeavour’ is a batch of songs sparked by an unexpected health scare in the summer of 2011, and it's these tracks that give the album its sorrowful gravitas. "In the middle of a tour last year, they detected a lump in my throat, so I had this period of a few months where I was freaking out about everything,” says Ron, “and that prob...

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Two of the UK’s hottest singers of the moment Angel and Misha B have team ed up on ‘Ride or Die’, the B- s ide to Angel’s new single ‘Time After Time’, which is out now . Watch the video for the track, directed by BAFTA Award winning actor Adam Deacon and Paul Akinrinlola of Parallel Pictures Angel ‘Time After Time’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vae91nUMgow http://thisisangel.com Time After Time (Remixes) - EP - Angel

R&B and Pop’s newest sensation Angel (aka Sirach Charles) will be releasing ‘Time AfterTime’ through on 19th November 2012. Produced by Parallel Music, (Angel’s production company) and Tommy Hittz (Chris Brown), ‘Time After Time’ is the follow up single to summer anthem ‘Wonderful’ which has recently spent 8 weeks in the top 20, 2 weeks in the top 10 and has sold over 250,000 copies to date thereby cementing Angel’s position as one of the top 5 highest selling breakthrough acts of 2012. At just 24 years old, this young West Londoner has risen from underground producer and songwriter to R&B Renaissance man within one year. Having previously penned hits for the likes of Pixie Lott, Jason Derulo and Roll Deep, Angel is set to make his mark as an artist his own right. Earmarked as a one to watch in 2012 by MTV and HMV, Angel has been dubbed by The Guardian as ‘Britain’s first all singing, all writing and producing urban boy wonder’, while Radio 1 crowned him ‘the new face of UK ...