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artist:white magic
album:Dat Rosa Mel Apibus
label:drag city
style:indie/dark folk
release:2006.11.14
来自布鲁克林的white magic由负责主唱/吉他/钢琴的Mira Billotte担当领帅.早年间她曾与其姐姐Charlotte组成过Quix*o*tic乐队在独立乐界闯荡.当这个project解散以后,她又邀得Ida的Miggy Littleton(drummer/bass)以及California Speedway的Andy Macleod(drummer/guitar)组成了white magic的基本队伍.早年曾在纽约闯荡.至2003年时与drag city签约.并与次年发行了他们的EP:[Through the Sun Door].
而今年独立乐迷们期待已久的他们的新专集终于出炉了.只是这次差不多变成了Billotte的个人秀了.原有的乐队成员班底已经弃用,换来的是全部的客席乐手的加入.例如来自Gang Gang Dance的Tim DeWit,来自dirty three的jim white以及负责大部分器乐演奏的Doug Shaw.但是班底的撤换并没有削弱主创Billotte在音乐中的地位.white magic在这张新作里体现出的是更加妖娆,更加暗色系的民谣之声.Billotte更加坚定的声线,带来的也是一个几乎崭新的WhiteMagic.
After their celebratory 2004 folk entrancement debut EP &aposThrough The Sun Door&apos, White Magic has evidently turned out to be a one-woman show headed by keyboardist/singer Mira Billote who ,only a few years ago, co-fronted Quix*O*Tic with her sister. While the original White Magic possesed a very definitive lineup of drummer Miggy Littleton (who has returned to Blood On The Wall) and guitarist Andy McCleod are out to lunch, it is obvious to hear that Billote was the member who steered the Magic&aposs creative wheel and soaked the group&aposs sound with her unmistakeable Grace Slick-meets-Roma-stoytelling-voice.The Light
Hear My Call
Childhood Song
What I See
All The World Wept
Dat Rosa Mel Apibus
Sun Song
Hold Your Hand In The Dark
Katie Cruel
Sea Chanty
Palm And Wine
Song Of Solomon -
世界太过喧闹，找个地方清静才是最重要的事
世界太过残酷，找个地方逃避才是最重要的事
世界太过虚伪，找个地方表演自己才是最重要的事
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Damien Rice在2003年发行了个人的首张专辑《O》，专辑刚发行，变让Damien Rice红遍了非主流音乐界。成为一位知名的唱作人。不但是国外，在我们中国Damien Rice的FANS也是相当的多，我记着前俩年，几乎各各论坛都会有人去发Damien Rice《O》专辑中的歌曲，简直可以用泛滥来形容。同时也让大家重新认识了Damien Rice所演绎的爱尔兰的音乐。这张新专辑命名为《9》，又是以极其简单的方式面向大家。新专辑《9》将在11月3号在爱尔兰首先发行，而后是11月6号将在英国和欧洲地区发行，最后的11月14号才会在美国正式发行。至于我们中国...估计2007年的11月吧。呵呵，玩笑话。来看看新专辑，整整10首歌曲。风格继续延续上张专辑的风格民谣，独流流行和Singer/ Songwriter。不同的是，这张专辑有2首非常突出的歌曲，分别是Rootless Trees和Me, My Yoke and I，突出之处在于别与他们以前的风格，这俩首歌曲特别摇滚，有点Indie Rock的感觉，听后，给我一种很新鲜的感觉，演绎的摇滚曲风原来也很不错。相对这张专辑的风格，我可以给这俩首歌曲满分。原因就是非常特别。剩下的歌曲，就是Damien Rice以往的风格，第一首歌曲9 Crimes，是一首以钢琴为主旋律配带着提琴的忧伤抒情歌曲，继续加上和Lisa Hannigan的女声和唱，专辑开篇便给我们一种熟悉的感觉，仿佛是上张专辑中的歌曲。专辑中Lisa Hannigan同样也参与了很多合声和合唱的部分。这点与上张仍然一样。Elephant是木吉他小调的歌曲，Damien Rice又在一次展示了他的嗓音，就像是清唱一样。专辑的最后一首是Sleep Don't Weep，一首近6分钟的歌曲，Damien Rice只演唱了小部分，接下来是Lisa Hannigan演唱了一小部分，剩下了结尾曲，在钢琴和Lisa Hannigan的合声中结束了整张专辑。曲目
9 Crimes
The Animals Were Gone
Elephant
Rootless Tree
Dogs
Coconut Skins
Me, My Yoke, and I
Grey Room
Accidental Babies
Sleep Don't Weep -
发行: 2006-08-22
厂牌: Drag City (Caroline)简介
两张个人专辑Pajo和1968一黑一白的唱片封面形成强烈的对比。两者间的分别，在於Pajo利用Laptop内置的廉价电脑软件收录，曲式上也蛰伏著一层电音肌理；而绝大部分歌曲都在纽约市East Village收录的1968，则已电气不再，反而更见传统朴实。
无可否认，1968专辑里的歌曲乃更进一步表现到Pajo的作曲才华，雋永而窝心的长青调子可谓比比皆是。比方如Who’s That Knocking、Foolish King、Prescription Blues这几首歌曲青葱与温暖的旋律，都美好得宛如传统的民谣曲目，甚至某程度上今天的Pajo会让你想起Elliott Smith的温婉曲调来。纵使曲调更美，但Pajo的作品上却仍旧灌录出一种赋予青涩味的音乐质感。
We Get Along, Mostly是碟内唯一的摇滚曲目，充斥著George Harrison式的结他Riff。
Folky得更彻底，是美好如Simon & Garfunkal作品的Walk Through The Dark，歌曲在洛杉磯与路易斯纳尔之间一所汽车旅馆收录，秉承了之前Papa M的Audio Tour Diary系列EP的作风。而Insomnia Song这首乐章，奏出是一片满是田园诗意的清逸脱俗风景，听得心旷神怡。
在Zwan的Mary Star Of The Sea专辑里，好让我深刻是碟内的Come With Me。今次Pajo一曲伴以口琴而来的Let It Be Me，那清爽畅快无比Country-Folk情味，可谓跟Come With Me儼如姊妹作。似乎Come With Me是出於David Pajo手笔而多於Billy Corgan。曲目
Who's That Knocking
Foolish King
We Get Along, Mostly
Prescription Blues
Insomnia Song
Wrong Turn
Cyclone Eye
Walk Through the Dark
Let It Be Me
I've Just Resotred My Will to Live Again -
Artist：the charade
Album：a real life drama
Release Date：June 20th 2006
Label:Skipping Stones
Styles：Indie/Swedish Pop1. My Song To You
2. A Tough Decision
3. Dressed In Yellow And Blue
4. September
5. Music Makes Me Sick
6. Stockholm July 2005
7. Rain On Your Parade
8. Sunny Winter Afternoon
9. Love Always Happens So Fast
10. Faith
来自瑞典斯德哥尔摩的清新吉他乐队The Charade.
不知道大家是否还记得05年他们的那张The best is yet to come,专集上白色的花朵开在我记忆里的每个角落,伴我安静入睡一日又一夜.
虽然我的地理知道告诉我，瑞典并非我想象中般温暖宜人，但the charade的这张专辑却将明媚的阳光散落在我的心坎。这样优秀的专辑常常是容易被人遗忘的，我想为自己的twee pop倾向找一个适当的理由，然而我找到理由总是千篇一律，试想如此活泼可爱，细巧伶俐的声音又怎能错过呢？a real life drama中的歌是简单而甜美的，而对于心灵的升华，每一次都能阻止注入我心田中的黑暗与恐惧。瑞典的乐队层出不穷，The Charade 却能以其无懈可击的声音，令人回味的歌词，引领我们进入夏日的美丽回忆。他们的歌词是介于欢快以及伤感之间，或许为了避免太多的糖份刺激，落入媚俗的小清新的通式。在The Charade的音乐中,轻盈的节奏让人听了仿佛置身于无数令人愉快的泡泡中，浪漫的秋日还离我们有点距离，可是从这歌声之中仍然能为夏天的午后增添一点亮色。 -
New Beginning
Been Here Before
River to Sea
City Tonight
Cannons
Damien Dreams
Wayward Love
Dare a Smile
World Waits
Burn前Sunny Day Real Estate(Foo Fighters)主唱今年新专集，96年的那张Return of the Frog Queen记忆犹新不免对这张新专集有更多的期望。lo-fi、低调、哀伤,但编曲丰盈,多种管弦乐器,大都由他一人演出。最近听了感觉不错的专集。下面是AMG上的介绍。
A decade passed since Jeremy Enigk, lead singer of Sunny Day Real Estate and the Fire Theft, released his last solo album, Return of the Frog Queen. And in ten years it&aposs natural, expected, desired even, that one will mature, that one&aposs musical tastes and influences may expand or change, so it&aposs not so strange that Enigk&aposs sophomore record is not an exact copy of his debut. What is strange, however, is how different it actually is. While Return of the Frog Queen was chamber pop and struck acoustic chords, World Waits is soft arpeggioed electric guitars, sweeping violins, and droning keyboards. It doesn&apost exactly work. Enigk sounds like a mixture of Peter Gabriel, U2, Sarah McLachlan, and a little bit of Elf Power, and tries too hard to be profound and meaningful. The closer, Burn, which seems as if it&aposs about to turn into a cover of Red Rain and has him singing, In linesmade perfect/One chance to run away/Angel wings, marmalade, is overly poignant to the point of saccharinity, especially the strings — which, along with an orchestra, added a nice element of whimsy on his first record, but only succeed here in making the album sound MOR and cheesy. Dare a Smile finds the singer doing his best John Lennon impression, and while it&aposs not a bad song, there&aposs nothing about it that makes it noteworthy, either, and Been There Before, even with its brief pipe organ break, is nothing more than uninspiringly pretty. The biggest mistake on the album, however, is the Bono-inspired City Tonight, which hardly improves after the whispered opening line, Am I late to the kingdom of love? almost turning into a dance song, synths and cheesy beats included. Worst is that Enigk doesn&apost sing here in the high, nasally voice that made both his solo and group work so enjoyable and even quirky. It&aposs not abandoned completely (Canons, for example, showcases it nicely), but it is limited as he aims for a more serious presentation. But in doing so he just becomes more formulaic, maturing perhaps but losing the very things that made him so great in the first place. A misstep to say the least; hopefully another ten years will bring back the Enigk we once knew.
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