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's fourth album and was to be released in 2001. The tracks were originally written and recorded at Seal's home studio in Los Angeles in 1999. Songwriters Guy Gershoni and Dave Palmer were brought in at two-week intervals for eight months of intensive collaboration efforts. The outcome of these writing sessions were experimental, edgy, underground club tracks reflective of Seal's early career and roots. Such a divergence from the Seal brand today, that there was discussion about releasing the tracks under a pseudo-name, as not to disrupt or confuse Seal's established fan base.

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was contracted to produce and help create a mainstream sounding album, before it was presented to the label. These are the versions that are sampled online. Contrary to various reports,

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turned down the album due to their dissatisfaction with the final record. Seal decided to record and release ''

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'' in its place. He then put ''Togetherland'' into a "vault", where the album has remained since. Over the years, fans have been able to listen to 30-second clips as well as streamed, full versions of some of the album's songs, to which many of those songs received high praise. On July 1, 2007, a book titled ''The Greatest Music Never Sold'' was released and makes mention of ''Togetherland'' as well as other popular artists whose music has been kept hidden away. The original versions have not been leaked to the public. The only song from ''Togetherland'' to be released commercially is " This Could Be Heaven" (originally entitled simply "Heaven"), which was featured on the soundtrack of the motion picture ''

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''. The recording of the track, however, is different from the version that was recorded for ''Togetherland''.. As well, the song "Whatever You Need", released as one of two bonus tracks on ''Seal 7 : '', is also a slightly different and retitled version of the ''Togetherland'' track ''Breathe''.

Track listing

#"(Just a) Step Away" #"Keep On" (Original title "Champagne") #"Love Is Better" #"Elise" #"Under the Sun" #"

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" #"English Lover" (Duet with

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) #"Breathe" #"All I Wanted to Say" #"Let It Ride" #"Togetherland"

References

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