Raine Maida - The Hunters Lullaby
ARTIST.....: Raine Maida
TITLE......: The Hunters Lullaby
LABEL......: King Noise / Nettwerk
URL........: http://www.rainemaida.net/
RIP DATE...: Nov-15-2007
STORE DATE.: Nov-13-2007
GENRE......: Folk
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 46,9 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Careful What You Wish For 04:40
02 - Sex Love And Honey 04:03
03 - Yellow Brick Road 03:07
04 - The Less I Know 03:38
05 - Earthless 03:01
06 - The Snake And The Crown 02:40
07 - Confessional 03:05
08 - China Doll 03:31
09 - Rat Race 03:40
10 - One Second Chance 02:58
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34:23 min
Release Notes:
http://www.myspace.com/rainemaida
First solo LP from Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida.
About Raine Maida
I am a singer.
I am a songwriter.
I am not an entertainer, although I can be entertaining. Alcohol.
I never knew how much I truly loved music until I bought The
Unforgettable Fire.
I write and record music because it is the evidence of life.
I have yet to wrap my head around the distinction between
pretentious and earnest.
IÆm either hopelessly misunderstood or an idiot.
I am a Monday morning activist.
IÆve filmed Documentaries in Iraq and Darfur and work closely with
various charities.
I drive a hybrid vehicle, shop with cloth grocery bags, buy mostly
organic local foods but yet feel as though IÆm living a clichΘ.
I dislike Yoga.
Love Bruce Lee and the UFC.
I know some real activists.
They humble me.
I feel as though I am a witness and the armed robbery is life
happening right before my very eyes.
I donÆt want to be the guy in the 7-11 hiding behind the candy bar
aisle.
I started a band named in 1992 named Our Lady Peace.
Name taken from a Mark Van Doren World War 2 poem.
We signed to Columbia Records, sold millions, did all the late
night talk shows and shared the stage with everyone from The
Ramones to Willie Nelson to The Deftones and Neil Young.
I enjoy producing music. The stuff IÆm most proud of youÆve
probably never heard of. Men Women and Children, People in Planes.
Billy the Kid, Dearly Beloved I spent the last year making a solo
record.
It was written, recorded and produced by me in my home studio
mostly late at night.
I approached the music completely differently from anything IÆve
done before.
Poems, beats then chord progressions.
In my studio sits a 2-foot high stack of books and magazines Used
sparingly throughout the recordings.
Emerson, Banksy, Ginsberg, Adbusters, The Fader, Buckminster
Fuller, Nikki Giovanni. See what I meanàthat delicate balance
between pretentious vs. earnest.
Theme of the record àöthe quest to be a decent human beingö
TitleàThe Hunters Lullaby
The explanationàUltimately you must venture out on your own to
determine the meaning of life.
ôIts hard workö (squinch your face and repeat with a Texas accent)
It should all be coming together now.
Songs.
ôEarthlessö song about courage from the eyes of a young girl
struggling with being a young girl
ôThe Less I Knowö religionàraised catholic. Got over it but still
say the Our Father before I take off when flying. Jared Paul
speaks at the end of the track. War is on his mind.
ôChina Dollö inspired by Al GoreÆs An Inconvenient Truth. The
Lyric ôSour like democracyö ends up being a sub theme of the
record and my love hate relationship with politics.
All songs recorded with acoustic instruments only.
The playersàVictor Indrizzo (Beck, Gnarls Barkley) started the
drum sessions with me back in the summer of 06.
Joseph Karnes played all the stand up bass (John Cale, Pedestrian,
My Brightest Diamond)
Chantal Kreviazuk played piano and sang
Randy Cooke (Dave Stewart) ended up cutting the majority of the
drums and percussion.
Jared Paul guested on a track. (Back to what I was discussing
earlierà. heÆs the real deal. social worker, marched in over 100
protest/rallies à.blah blah blah)
Recently IÆve shared the stage with artists such as Saul Williams,
Jello Biafra and Peaches
IÆve begun performing in spoken word festivals
William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac.
University of Toronto Literature classes.
Buddy Wakefield, Sage Francis, Suheir Hammad, Anis Mogjani.
Poetry Slam DVDÆs bought with Visa card from Amazon.
Spoken word is what gets me off these days.
Probably because it makes feel so damn insecure.
ItÆs much more relevant than music.
I get the same feeling from spoken word today as the first time I
heard NirvanaÆs ôsmells like teen spirit.ö
IÆm not exactly sure where my record fits in this musical climate.
For the first time in my musical journey I own the music fully and
completely. This excites me.
IÆm not sure where it fits in todayÆs musical landscape.
I take comfort in that.
I have two very young children who will one day judge me by this
work.
Fear and courage are brothers.
RAINE MAIDA