（24Bit_32Bit）Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep 2010/2019 （FLAC/24bit/96kHz）

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"This album captures so many magical moments, the best times I've ever had as a musician," declares singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant of Leave Your Sleep, her ambitious, two-disc Nonesuch debut. Merchant, celebrated solo artist and the one-time voice of 10,000 Maniacs, took on what could have been a daunting task; she's adapted 19th and 20th century British and American poetry--well-known and obscure work, anonymous rhymes, children's lullabies, all of it timeless material full of direct emotion--and fashioned new songs from these words. Among the poets she chose were Robert Graves, Charles Manley Hopkins, Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, and Robert Louis Stevenson. The project, six years in the making, has clearly had a liberating effect on Merchant. Never has she sounded so free-spirited, so full of musical adventure, whether backed by small jazzy combos or elegant chamber ensembles. The tracks she's created range from exotic ("The King of China's Daughter") to earthy ("Peppery Man"), soothing ("I Saw A Ship A-Sailing") to swinging ("The Janitor's Boy"), mischievous ("It Makes A Change") to moving ("Spring and Fall"). The string arrangements are particularly stirring, recalling Joshua Rifkin's now-classic work on Judy Collins' Wildflowers.

There's plenty of child-like wonder, counterbalanced with grown-up sophistication. Says Merchant, "It was an exciting, new approach for me to work with rhythm and rhyme schemes created by other writers. The poems inspired vastly different musical settings with their themes that ranged from humorous and absurd to tragic, romantic, and deeply spiritual. Over the course of three years I wrote 40 of these poem-songs and 30 were eventually recorded.

Merchant co-produced Leave Your Sleep with Venezuelan musician-composer Andres Levin, a frequent collaborator of David Byrne and Arto Lindsay, and one of the creators of the eclectic Red Hot charity series. Over the course of a year's worth of exhilarating, musically shape-shifting sessions, they drew upon no less than 130 musicians from the varied worlds of, among other things, Cajun, country, jazz, chamber music, R&B, Celtic, and reggae. The revitalized Merchant explains, "I called on old friends and approached many new musicians I only knew through admiring their work... The sessions were recorded in live ensemble workshop settings that captured pure and authentic sounds played with incredibly fresh and spontaneous energy."

Leave Your Sleep is an inspired return for Merchant, her first studio album in seven years--an effort long awaited by her considerable fan base. It also marks her 25th year as a uniquely successful major-label artist, one whose work has consistently enjoyed equal measures of commercial and critical success. Though she has regularly lent her talents over the preceding years to the many non-profit causes she supports, Merchant actively returned to the concert stage, previewing material from Leave Your Sleep on a series of dates in the UK and continental Europe.

曲目:
01. Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience (5:11)
02. Equestrienne (4:39)
03. Calico Pie (2:42)
04. Bleezer's Ice-Cream (5:17)
05. It Makes a Change (3:31)
06. The King of China's Daughter (2:39)
07. The Dancing Bear (5:38)
08. The Man in the Wilderness (3:45)
09. maggie and milly and molly and may (4:09)
10. If No One Ever Marries Me (2:22)
11. The Sleepy Giant (3:20)
12. The Peppery Man (5:06)
13. The Blind Men and the Elephant (5:31)
14. Adventures of Isabel (3:25)
15. The Walloping Window Blind (4:17)
16. Topsyturvey-World (5:10)
17. The Janitor's Boy (3:52)
18. Griselda (5:51)
19. The Land of Nod (4:06)
20. Vain and Careless (4:44)
21. Crying, My Little One (2:28)
22. Sweet and a Lullaby (3:05)
23. I Saw a Ship A-Sailing (2:13)
24. Autumn Lullaby (3:23)
25. Spring and Fall: To a Young Child (3:07)
26. Indian Names (5:50)

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