(欧美)轻柔、舒缓的民谣 Sovay-Andrew Bird

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Andrew Bird从98年的首张专辑起就沉迷于以弦乐为主导的民谣摇滚曲子里，今年的Patrick Wolf,Final Fantasy又令这些边拉小提琴边唱优美曲调的人物充满魅力。Andrew Bird早期的作品风格相当广泛，今年的这张第五张专辑走惹人喜欢的Indie Culture路线，曲风也一变成时下吃香的Indie Folk。Andrew Bird的嗓音依旧亲近，慵懒而漫不经心，曲调小巧温暖。总之，这种男声似乎特别容易吸引听众。






Andrew Bird, 实在是一个多有灵感而想像力丰富的人. 听过他以前的几张专辑, 包括他组团时候的 the Swimming Hour 还有后来的  Weather System. 他有吟游诗人一般的唱腔, 但他的音乐却总涌动着不同的来自民谣,古典,爵士以及摇滚的元素, 让人捉摸不定.






  芝加哥唱作人 Andrew Bird 的新专辑  是上半年又一重头戏。这是一张关于童年、关于想象力的专辑，古典出身的 Bird 几乎包揽了全部器乐的编排与演奏。专辑前后经历三个版本，最终呈现给听者的是小提琴、钟琴、电吉他以及 Bird 招牌式的口哨交织的一派生机， jazz 风格的 chamber-pop ，优雅中处处闪现着机智。访谈中 Bird 先生提到， 27 年音乐生命中从未离开自己的创造力，便是源自童年的 mysiterious production 之一。不论是清新的民谣曲风、带着吉普赛风味的流浪歌曲或情绪翻腾的畅快弦乐摇滚，Andrew Bird能将这些音乐安排的滑顺可口，就像一颗七分熟的蛋，打碎时还有香软的蛋黄流出。






英文简介:
Andrew Bird is a previously unimaginable combination of songwriter, violinist, guitarist, vocalist and whistler. His unfailingly unique and striking music has been dumbfounding us for years. Bird's first studio album in nearly two years, The Mysterious Production of Eggs, is his second on Righteous Babe Records. The album follows Weather Systems, his critically-acclaimed mini-LP, released in spring 2003.
　　

　　The recording sessions for Mysterious Production saw Bird scrap the album three times and travel between studios in Chicago, Los Angeles and his own home studio on a farm in Northern Illinois. The album took final shape with the production help of David Boucher, whose credits include Paul Westerberg, Lisa Loeb, and Randy Newman. Bird plays most of the instruments on Mysterious Production, and is joined by a handful of special guests complimenting his already lush sonic palette. The results are magnificent, a powerhouse of a record dealing with nothing less than the mysteries of childhood, creativity and modern science - epic in scope and minute in detail.
　　
　　Equally impressive is Bird's solo live show at which, with the aid of a sampling pedal, the songwriter takes his often dense, orchestrated recordings and rewrites them anew each night, adding hypnotic layers of instruments to his vocals and other-worldly whistling - you have to see it to believe it.







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歌词:
I was getting ready to be a threat
I was getting set for my
accidental suicide
the kind where no one dies
no one looks too surprised
then you realize
that you're riding on a para-success
of a heavy-handed metaphor
and a feeling like you've been here before
because you've been here before
and you've been here before
then a word washed ashore
a word washed ashore
then a word washed ashore
sovay, sovay,sovay
all along the day
I was getting ready to consider my next plan of attack
I think I'm gonna sack
the whole board of trustees
all those Don Quixotes un their B-17s
and I swear this time
yeah this time
they'll blow us back to the 70's
and this time
they're playin Ride of the Valkyries
with no semblance of grace or ease
and they're acting on vagaries
with their violent proclivities
and they're playing ride
Ride of the Valkyries
sovay,sovay,sovay
all along the day



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