Davey
11-23-2006, 10:28 AM
it's always cold when she's away
ain't no sunshine when she's gone
and she's always gone too long
any time she goes away
ain't no sunshine when she's gone
and this house just ain't my home
any time she goes away
This "Blush Music" CD has been like a broken record around my place for weeks, just keeps going around and around. Woven Hand has become kind of like my 2006 soundtrack, with all the spins on the new "Mosaic", and back to the debut, and "Consider the Birds". And that great "Short Stories" disc from Lilium too. But this is the one that has me so mesmerized. Guess I've begun to sound like a broken record too, but it just seems so special. I've never heard an artist go back and rework previous recordings with this kind of vision before. Just amazing how some of the songs from the Woven Hand debut re-emerged a couple years later as multi-dimensional epics on this soundtrack for a Belgian dance company.
His cover of Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine" is a very concise 2:54 on the debut. Says he recorded it for his wife and daughter because it's one of their favorites. Subtely changed the line about "gonna leave the young thing alone" to "gonna leave your things alone", which continues to trip me up almost every time I sing along, but makes more sense overall in the context of the song. On "Blush Music" the song becomes a moody masterpiece, expanded to over 14 minutes and retitled "Animalitos (Ain't No Sunshine)", accented with the voices of children, and the ominous sound of crows overhead, remixed with other found sounds. Driven by a more powerful vocal track than the much more reserved reading on the debut, in my opinion surpassing even Bill Withers' great original, but not even entering the picture until 10 seconds short of the 5 minute mark. Spooky, with the guitars seeming to encircle the vocal, like serpents. Powerful stuff, but only one of many. Most of the songs unfold slowly and morph seamlessly from one to the next, some with extended instrumental sections, maybe requiring a bit of patience from the listener of more conventional music, but no complaints from me after countless listens. As usual, when Robert Ferbrache and his Studio Absinthe is involved, another great sounding CD too.
Anyway, that's my Turkey Tunes. Any special tunes in the roaster for you today? Oh yeah, been spinning some of that advance copy of the new Shins CD that has been floating around here lately, but kind of underwhelming right now. Nice enough, though. Some of it seems a bit flat, I wonder if this is really the final mix?
ain't no sunshine when she's gone
and she's always gone too long
any time she goes away
ain't no sunshine when she's gone
and this house just ain't my home
any time she goes away
This "Blush Music" CD has been like a broken record around my place for weeks, just keeps going around and around. Woven Hand has become kind of like my 2006 soundtrack, with all the spins on the new "Mosaic", and back to the debut, and "Consider the Birds". And that great "Short Stories" disc from Lilium too. But this is the one that has me so mesmerized. Guess I've begun to sound like a broken record too, but it just seems so special. I've never heard an artist go back and rework previous recordings with this kind of vision before. Just amazing how some of the songs from the Woven Hand debut re-emerged a couple years later as multi-dimensional epics on this soundtrack for a Belgian dance company.
His cover of Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine" is a very concise 2:54 on the debut. Says he recorded it for his wife and daughter because it's one of their favorites. Subtely changed the line about "gonna leave the young thing alone" to "gonna leave your things alone", which continues to trip me up almost every time I sing along, but makes more sense overall in the context of the song. On "Blush Music" the song becomes a moody masterpiece, expanded to over 14 minutes and retitled "Animalitos (Ain't No Sunshine)", accented with the voices of children, and the ominous sound of crows overhead, remixed with other found sounds. Driven by a more powerful vocal track than the much more reserved reading on the debut, in my opinion surpassing even Bill Withers' great original, but not even entering the picture until 10 seconds short of the 5 minute mark. Spooky, with the guitars seeming to encircle the vocal, like serpents. Powerful stuff, but only one of many. Most of the songs unfold slowly and morph seamlessly from one to the next, some with extended instrumental sections, maybe requiring a bit of patience from the listener of more conventional music, but no complaints from me after countless listens. As usual, when Robert Ferbrache and his Studio Absinthe is involved, another great sounding CD too.
Anyway, that's my Turkey Tunes. Any special tunes in the roaster for you today? Oh yeah, been spinning some of that advance copy of the new Shins CD that has been floating around here lately, but kind of underwhelming right now. Nice enough, though. Some of it seems a bit flat, I wonder if this is really the final mix?