RELEASED 5.9.2011
Disc One - Santo Spirito Blues 1. Dancing My Blues Away 2. Rock And Roll Tonight 3. Never Tie Me Down 4. The Chance Of Love 5. The Last Open Road 6. Electric Guitar 7. Money 8. The Way She Moves 9. Dance With Me All Night Long 10. Think Like A Woman 11. You Got Lucky 12. Lose My Heart In You 13. I Will Go On
Disc Two - Bull Fighting
Disc Three - San Spirito
Disc Four - Bull Fighting (DVD)
Disc Five - San Spirito (DVD)
Following his sell-out UK & European tour in 2010 and 2009's UK Top Ten album 'Still So Far To Go - The Best Of Chris Rea', one of the UK's foremost singers and songwriters returns with his first new material in over 10 years. The elaborate 3CD & 2DVD The Santo Spirito Project includes a brand new studio album featuring 'Dancing My Blues Away', 'Never Tie Me Down', 'The Chance Of Love', 'Rock & Roll Tonight', 'Electric Guitar' and 'The Last Open Road.' Additionally, The Santo Spirito Project features 2 bespoke feature films on DVD, written and directed by Chris. The first feature is a raw and brutally honest chronicle on bullfighting and features neo-classical & Spanish themed gypsy music & the second feature follows a man through the city of Florence in his search for the truth, on a journey which he may or may not wish he began. "I love creating things and passionately believe we (the artists) should be looking to try new ways of bringing what we do to the public. There should be no rules whatsoever and, for God's sake, there are alternatives to TV talent shows. Sometimes, those who have had extremely good fortune in music allow only X Factor type TV shows etc. to set the musical and cultural agenda of this county by actually doing nothing new or different themselves." - Chris Rea