Teenage soul singer Joss Stone has released her follow-up album “Mind, body and soul” via S-Curve Records. The disc is a follow-up to her 2003 release, The Soul Sessions,. That EP has sold more than two million copies worldwide since it was released last year. The 14-track album includes 12 songs that were either written or co-written by Stone. Beth Gibbons collaborated with Joss Stone on the new disk among with Salaam Remi, Betty Wright and Lamont Dozier.

more info about the album: http://www.s-curverecords.com/joss

Beth Gibbons with other stars like Mickey 3D, Brian Ferry and many more is participating in Jane’s Birkin’s new album “rendez-vous” released on 30 March 2004

(from JB official site): “Following the “Arabesque” adventure (Golden record with 100 000 copies sold in France alone and 200 concert dates in France as well as around the world), Jane Birkin will be back in 2004 with a very special record.
Gonzales et Renaud Letang have orchestrated a series of original and enticing “rendez-vous” with a whole host of stars: from Mickey 3D to Alain Souchon, passing by Miossec, Alain Chamfort, Brian Ferry, Beth Gibbons, Etienne Daho, Arno, Paolo Conte, Manu Chao, Caetano Veloso, Brian Molko ….
Original compositions in unexpected arrangements, “Rendez-Vous” will make us discover an irresistible and surprising Jane Birkin….”