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专辑英文名:City Of Refuge
歌手:Abigail Washburn
音乐风格:Indie
发行时间:2011年01月11日
地区:美国
语言:英语
专辑介绍:
Abigail Washburn never set out to be a songwriter or a recording artist. Five years ago when she found herself on stage in a smoke-filled Beijing club playing her banjo and singing old-time Appalachian mountain music in Chinese to a packed house, she was as surprised as anyone. “A daring, definite talent, whose feel for the folk idiom results in moving material. Soulful is the word,” hailed the Wall Street Journal in 2005, during that same tour of China. “On stage, her voice resonated with the power of a seasoned performer and her poetic hill tunes sounded all the more evocative in Chinese.
In her relatively short musical career, Abigail Washburn has covered a lot of ground; both physically and metaphorically. Bouncing between China and Appalachia has informed much of her musical output and influenced a body of work that goes far beyond the usual claw hammer banjo repertoire. Her Rounder debut, City of Refuge is a sublime marriage of old-time and indie-pop. On the album Washburn pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and unlike anything anybody's ever heard before. The album features My Morning Jacket's Carl Broemel, The Decemberists' Chris Funk, Turtle Island Quartet's Jeremy Kittell, atmospheric jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, veteran Nashville studio percussionist Kenny Malone, Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor and Morgan Jahnig, Wu Fei, master of the guzheng, and the Mongolian stringband Hanggai, who managed to contribute ambient throat-singing from halfway around the world. The album was produced by Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Tift Merritt, Mudhoney) and features the talents of multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, Kai Welch (Tommy and the Whale). City of Refuge offers an expansive palette of supple and modern textures resulting in a remarkably harmonious piece of art.
补充歌手档案：
Nettwerk唱片公司的签约歌手Abigail Washburn（王爱平）来自佛蒙特州，最近移居至田纳西州的纳什维尔。Abigail从未停止过歌唱，曲风则由原先的无伴奏福音歌曲、灵歌和雷鬼转为蓝草和传统民歌。Abigail曾学习过几年中文，她也在中国住过几年。同时她还尝试将美国传统民歌翻译成中文进行演唱，并为此创作了一些中文的歌曲。
　Abigail的第一张专辑《Song of the Travelling Daughter》（《游女吟》）于2005年8月在北美发行。《游女吟》是Abigail、Bela Fleck和Reid Scelza一起制作的。其中收录了她个人重新编配的传统歌曲以及自己创作的歌曲，歌词既有中文也有英文。目前她正与Uncle Earl民乐团在美国各地进行巡演。在她最新独唱专辑《游女吟/Here in This Room》中共收录十首歌，有原创作品和老歌翻唱，参与制作的乐手有Casey Driessen、Amanda Kowalski、Tyler Grant、Tim O'Brien、Russ Barenberg和Megan Gregory。
　　自从《游女吟》专辑发表以后，很多北美媒体都对其进行了大量报道，其中包括CNN（有线新闻网）、美国公共电台等大型国际性媒体。她的中文歌被中文电视真人秀《跨越美国大挑战》节目选用。她还应阿巴拉契亚Picking协会之邀和班卓琴大师Bela Fleck共同创作并录制了一首对唱歌曲。她和Beau Stapleton（Blue Merle乐队）在2004 Merle Watson纪念音乐节中获得了“蓝草音乐最佳作曲”二等奖，参赛曲目为《Rockabye Dixie》。
　　2004年11月，Abigail和三位美国优秀音乐家来到中国。他们在北京、上海的酒吧进行了多场精彩的交流演出，并受到两个音乐学院的邀请（北京的迷笛音乐学校、上海音乐学院）为这两所大学的学生上大师课。他们也在上海师范大学、西华大学（成都）、成都信息工程学院、重庆西南师范大学进行了交流演出。在北京他们摄制了一张DVD，介绍班卓琴的演奏技艺和阿巴拉契亚音乐的发展历史。Abigail与几位中国现代、传统乐手取得联系，约定有机会与他们一起演奏。中国多家媒体对她在中国的巡演进行了大量报道，他们的第一次中国之行非常成功。今年他们将再次造访中国，为了能与更多的人进行交流和展示，安排了多场交流巡演。他们将为更多的观众带来实实在在的国际文化交流的机会。
专辑曲目：
01. Prelude
02. City of Refuge
03. Bring Me My Queen
04. Chains?
05. Ballad of Treason
06. Last Train
07. Burn Thru
08. Corner Girl
09. Dreams Of Nectar
10. Divine Bell
11. Bright Morning Stars
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