Café Naturale

Template:Use dmy dates {{safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst-infobox||$params=italic_title,name,type,longtype,artist,cover,border,alt,caption,released,recorded,venue,studio,genre,length,language,label,director,producer,compiler,chronology,prev_title,prev_year,year,next_title,next_year,misc|$extra=italic_title,longtype,border,caption,language,director,compiler,chronology,year,misc|$aliases=italic title>italic_title,Italic title>italic_title,Name>name,Type>type,image>cover,Cover>cover,Border>border,Alt>alt,Caption>caption,Longtype>longtype,Artist>artist,Released>released,Recorded>recorded,Venue>venue,Studio>studio,Genre>genre,Length>length,Language>language,Label>label,Director>director,Producer>producer,Compiler>compiler,Chronology>chronology,Misc>misc|$flags=override|$B={{#ifeq:{{#invoke:Is infobox in lead|main|[Ii]nfobox [Aa]lbum}}|true|{{#if:Template:Has short description | |{{#if: 24 May 2004 | Template:Short description}}}}}}{{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template otherTemplate:Category handlerTemplate:Main other{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:Infobox album with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y|italic_title |type |name |image |cover |border |alt |caption |longtype |artist |released |recorded |venue |studio |genre |length |language |label |director |producer |compiler |prev_title|prev_year|next_title|next_year|chronology|year|misc}}{{#if:{{#invoke:String|match|error_category=Music infoboxes with Module:String errors|A|1=Beautiful View2001The Essential Wendy Matthews2007studioCafé NaturaleCafé Naturale.jpgWendy Matthews24 May 20042003Tiger Studios in Sydney, AustraliaPopBMGMichael Szumowskix|2=</?t[drh][ >]|nomatch=}}|Template:Main other}}Template:Main other}} Café Naturale is the sixth studio album by singer Wendy Matthews, released by BMG in Australia on 24 May 2004. It is an album of cover songs chosen by Matthews and the album's producer, Michael Szumowski. The album yielded only one single, "All I Need".

In 2002, Matthews moved to a coastal haven outside Coffs Harbour, New South Wales. She spent a lot of time in her favourite cafe listening to records, and explains "there’s nothing like a song to bring you back to a specific moment or feeling in time."<ref name="Australian Music Online">"Wendy Matthews - Australian Music Online profile"Template:Cbignore. Amo.org.au. Retrieved 3 August 2009.</ref> This led her to name the album Café Naturale.<ref name="Australian Music Online"/>

She was surprised by some of the song choices. "Once we got into the studio the record started to reveal its personality to me. It all came together and the songs, these very melodic songs, started to make themselves known. It just worked."<ref name="Australian Music Online"/>

The thought behind the album's cover artwork comes from a painting of a woman on a wall on Edgecliff Road in Sydney, Australia by Bruno Dutot in 1987.<ref name="Australian Music Online"/> Matthews approached Dutot and she asked him to commission a painting of this woman for her cover. She states "basically, he's painted her as me with a chopstick in her hair and my dog at the feet. Every time I'm in Sydney I have to go and check the lady on the wall, what colour dress she's wearing this month, whether she's changed and she looks so cafe society to me, so I'm thrilled and honoured that he actually did a painting for this cover."<ref name="News 2004">"ARCHIVED WENDY NEWS - APRIL / AUGUST 2004" Template:Webarchive. Wendymatthews.com.au. Retrieved 3 August 2009.</ref> Matthews says the painting has come to symbolise Sydney for her.<ref name="Australian Music Online"/>

Charts

Chart (2004)	Peak position
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