Now and Always: 20 Years of Dreaming

Now and Always: 20 Years of Dreaming
Compilation album by Gabrielle
Released	18 November 2013
Recorded	1993–2013
Genre	Soul, R&B, pop
Label	Island Records (Go Beat!)
Gabrielle chronology
Always (2007) Now And Always: 20 Years of Dreaming (2013)
Singles from Now and Always: 20 Years of Dreaming
"Say Goodbye" Released: 25 November 2013

Now and Always: 20 Years of Dreaming is a compilation album by British singer-songwriter Gabrielle to celebrate 20 years since her debut single, "Dreams".

Overview

After her album Always in 2007, Gabrielle had decided music was no longer fun and that she would retire. But after a chance meeting with producer Syience in a music studio she was visiting with a friend, she rekindled her love for music and the two made a couple of tracks together. Over the next few years Gabrielle experimented with different sounds and producers before being signed to Island Records by president Darcus Beese in 2013 after presenting him the newly recorded tracks.

The album consists of 34 tracks, including most of Gabrielle's singles, a number of album tracks and remixes, and seven brand new tracks.^[1]

Previously-released singles and remixes

The compilation includes all of Gabrielle's singles except the UK top 20 hits "If You Really Cared" (#15) and "Stay the Same" (#20), as well as the promotional single "You Used to Love Me". It also includes remixes of the hits "Forget About The World", "Rise" and "Sunshine". All three remixes were previously released as B-sides on the respective singles, but the versions of the "Sunshine" and "Rise" remixes included on the album are the versions released on Gabrielle's remix album Rise Underground.

Album tracks

The compilation includes seven album tracks which had not been released as singles - "Fallen Angel" (from Play to Win) "Falling" (from Rise), and five tracks from Gabrielle's most recent album Always. In total, the compilation includes seven of the thirteen tracks on Always (five album tracks and the two singles "Why" and "Every Little Teardrop").

New tracks

The album contains seven new tracks, all of which are on the first of the two discs: the lead single "Say Goodbye", "Knew Me" and "Holding On for You" (produced by Syience), the title track "Now and Always" (produced by Jake Isaac), a reworking of Gabrielle's debut single "Dreams" (arranged and produced by Naughty Boy), "It Takes Time" (produced by J Hirst and J Dunne), and "Show Me What You Got" (produced by Sonny J. Mason).^[2]

The Naughty Boy reworking of "Dreams" was made available from iTunes ahead of the album's release, with options to purchase it either as a standalone track or to receive it as an immediate download when pre-ordering the album. This is Naughty Boy and Gabrielle's second collaboration, after recording the song "Hollywood" together for Naughty Boy's album Hotel Cabana.^[3]

"Say Goodbye" was released as a digital-only single on the same day as the album but failed to chart in the UK. It was first played on 14 October by Ken Bruce on BBC Radio 2.^[4]

Track listing

Disc 1

1. "Say Goodbye" (previously unreleased)
2. "Rise" (single from Rise)
3. "When a Woman" (single from Rise)
4. "Knew Me" (previously unreleased)
5. "Give Me a Little More Time" (single from Gabrielle)
6. "Dreams" (featuring Naughty Boy) (previously unreleased)
7. "Heartbreaker" (album track from Always)
8. "Show Me What You Got" (previously unreleased)
9. "It Takes Time" (previously unreleased)
10. "Walk On By" (single from Gabrielle)
11. "Out of Reach" (single from Bridget Jones's Diary: Music from the Motion Picture and the re-release of Rise)
12. "Now and Always" (previously unreleased)
13. "Fallen Angel" (album track from Play to Win)
14. "Holding On for You" (previously unreleased)
15. "Sunshine" (single from Rise)
16. "Dreams" (single from Find Your Way)
17. "Closure" (album track from Always)

Disc 2

1. "If You Ever" (East 17 featuring Gabrielle) (single from Gabrielle)
2. "Falling" (album track from Rise)
3. "Going Nowhere" (single from Find Your Way)
4. "I Wish" (single from Find Your Way)
5. "I Remember" (album track from Always)
6. "Because of You" (single from Find Your Way)
7. "Don't Need the Sun to Shine (To Make Me Smile)" (single from Dreams Can Come True, Greatest Hits Vol. 1)
8. "Should I Stay" (single from Rise)
9. "All I Want" (album track from Always)
10. "Why" (single from Always)
11. "Ten Years' Time" (single from Play to Win)
12. "Forget About the World" (single from Gabrielle)
13. "Every Little Teardrop" (single from Always)
14. "Show Me Love" (album track from Always)
15. "Sunshine (Wookie Main Mix)" (from Rise Underground)
16. "Rise (Artful Dodger Above Board Vox Mix)" (from Rise Underground)
17. "Forget About the World (Daft Punk Mix)" (B-side to the single "Forget About the World")

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