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Divers
曲目リスト
1 | Anecdotes |
2 | Sapokanikan |
3 | Leaving the City |
4 | Goose Eggs |
5 | Waltz of the 101st Lightborne |
6 | The Things I Say |
7 | Divers |
8 | Same Old Man |
9 | You Will Not Take My Heart Alive |
10 | A Pin-Light Bent |
11 | Time, As a Symptom |
商品の説明
2015 release from the harpist, keyboardist, singer and songwriter. Divers is Newsom’s first album since 2010. Good heavens - five years go by - what can one do? Dive, listener, knowing that your next hour will be filled with diversions aplenty: a wheeling circuit of sci-fi sea-shanties and cavalier ballads, narrated from parts unknown; a family of polysemic song-sets; a paranomasaic Liederkreis of harmonic sympathies and knotted hierarchies; a fanfare of brazen puns and martial lullabies, blazing in sorrow and horseplay and love, in turns symphonic and spare, joined by Mellotrons and Marxophones and Moogs, clavichords and celestas and of course the harp, thrumming its threnodies of circadian invasions and avian irruptions and strange loops of Shepard-toned resonant-frequencies and something called goddamned Simulacreage. The music of Divers is a wonder of considered arrangements a taut line, threaded with the pearls of passed and passing times...a round, a chant, an incantation...a ray of light diverted eleven ways, into eleven songs that striate, in chromatic collusion, their simultaneous arc...a span that takes in lifetimes, but is immaculately sequenced for telescoped brevity. The music speeds with dissociative dread over montaged cityscapes; it hoofs with delight among the collaged quotations and sepia-toned codices of Popular Song; it ambles its carefree citational course through the public domain and down into the dustier corners of municipal parks, to lionize infamous airmen and anonymous Dutch Masters, to mourn pearl divers and Poorwills, and to elegize the ineluctable tragedy of relativity a tragedy of parochial time, anecdotal time, dubious time.
登録情報
- メーカーにより製造中止になりました : いいえ
- 製品サイズ : 14.1 x 12.5 x 1.19 cm; 92.13 g
- メーカー : Drag City
- EAN : 0781484056126
- 商品モデル番号 : 35219819
- オリジナル盤発売日 : 2015
- レーベル : Drag City
- ASIN : B013SCCK5O
- 原産国 : 英国
- ディスク枚数 : 1
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El packaging y los vinilos llegaron intactos y se escuchaba increíble en mi tórnales a. Buena compra!
2021年7月24日にメキシコでレビュー済み
El packaging y los vinilos llegaron intactos y se escuchaba increíble en mi tórnales a. Buena compra!
The album begins with 'Anecdotes' followed by 'Sapokanikan', two songs that clearly made an impression upon me in the live show for they sounded like old friends when I heard them in the context of the album. 'Anecdotes' benefits from the additional strings on the recording, with their help the second half of the song turns into a truly magical fairy-tale experience. There are lots of military references in the dense, complex lyrics which conjur up, for me, a squad of soldiers lost somewhere on some battlefield, frightened for their lives and painfully aware of their own mortality. 'Sapokanikan' was the first single to be taken from the album, named after a Native American village which used to sit on the lower half of Manhattan Island, approximately where Grenwich Village is now. The song begins with a jolly enough sounding stripped back piano with hints of ragtime that breaks into cascades of twinkling notes and false builds with what sounds like keyboard brass. The song ends with a pair of voices singing in harmony that reach for ever higher heights, building tension and emotion, giving way to a gentler section with accompanying pan-pipes, perhaps representing the Native American villagers of the songs title.
The first section of 'Leaving The City' sounds like it could have been written for the Tudor court, and uses another synthetic brassy sound for tension – big wide keyboard notes that build to fill the space before an almost hip-hop beat comes in and carries the song forward, another beautiful bit of arrangement. 'Goose Eggs' has some great little unexpected bluesy bending electric guitar licks which combine with the baroque arpeggios and harpsichord to great effect – the medieval and 70s blues rock making for surprisingly good bed partners. 'Waltz Of The 101st Lightbourne' is full of lovely folksy violin lines, twisting up and down their melodies, and some clever drumming, providing the perfect amount of momentum to support the song. With 'The Things I Say' Joanna strips things down a step, leaving vocal and piano alone for most of the track before her voice sneaks off into the distance, disappearing in a puff of reverb smoke as heavily effected sounds rise up to fill the space - reversed vocals, samples and studio trickery creating an unusual and luscious crescendo that builds to an abrupt stop.
The title song 'Divers' is painfully beautiful, sad, thoughtful and full of loss. There's an almost Far-Eastern feel to the complex harp arpeggios and chords that sing on top of the piano, which carries the song along. It is full of space but once again defies expectation, most song-writers would leave that opening section alone and repeat it, for fear of breaking up the intimacy with complexity, but Joanna Newsom thrives in this arena. Those unexpected blue notes in the following section really make the song and you have to respect her ability to take the listener on a journey rather than lock them in a mood. 'Same Old Man' follows sounding like some old prairie song with it's softly plucked banjo, lilting melody and sweet harmony. Somewhere in amongst the classic sounds of the Americana songbook I'm sure I can make out a low analogue synth rumbling. 'You Will Not Take My Heart Alive' puts the focus on the harp and vocal, which actually sounds a little too much like it could be the backing track to some online fantasy Role Playing Game to me, but the titular refrain, where the music strips down and she repeates that phrase with powerful emotion, manages to rescue things a little, although I'd say this is probably my least favourite track on the record.
'A Pin-Light Bent' was the first song of Newsom's encore at the recent Dome set, performed solo, and it is an amazing piece. The harp really comes to life on this one, one moody motif repeats throughout while plucked chords ascend expressively on top and, on this recording, a few soft piano chords provide a floor. The album closes with 'Time, As A Symptom' whose refrain of, "the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating joy of life" is perhaps the most chorus-like moment on the album. It's a hook! And it's glorious when this track builds from it's early steps as just piano and vocal (weirdly accompanied by what sounds like a hooting owl), to a dense orchestral arrangement propelled by the drums of Joanna's brother Pete and some amazing horns which remind me of some of my favourite moments in Sigur Ros's earlier output. My only criticism would be that, even at five and a half minutes, it feels like it could go on for longer. But then I am told, by those who know her work better than I, that this is a feature of her fourth record – the song structures are shorter and so, perhaps, this is a very good place to start for the uninitiated.
Her lyrics are fascinating and that voice, while it may be a little challenging at first to ears untuned to it, really has the power to move you emotionally. The harp is such a complex and beautiful instrument it's wonderful that an artist like Newsom is out there, exploring the possibilities it holds and bringing them to our attention. She is one of those rare complete artists; producing, writing and performing most of the music you hear on Divers and taking us to places few would dare musically or lyrically – but really it is the familiar sounds of American folk and Blues that came as the biggest surprise to me. They permeate the album in wonderful ways, grounding it to a friendly place when I was fearing I could get lost in some sort of neo-classical density. Divers is a wonderful album that I imagine I will return to often for those dark nights of introspection as we fall into the winter months. If you haven't tried listening to her yet I would say Joanna Newsom is worth the time invested in discovery.