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| | Artist : Half Seas Over | |
| | Album : Half Seas Over | |
| | Label : Brownswood Recordings Source : WEB MP3 | |
| | Cat. No. : BWOOD047DD Size : 115.54 MB | |
| ª Genre : Lo-Fi StrDate: 2010-00-00 ª |
ª _ Quality : 320kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo RipDate: 2010-05-04 _ ª
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| | A brand new project from acclaimed pianist Elan Mehler who, while | |
| | working together with singer-songwriter Adam McBride-Smith on | |
| | ?The After Suite? (Brownswood, 2009) discovered a rich vein of | |
| | material in the melding of their compositional styles. Their | |
| | partnership flourished and the two have written an astonishing | |
| | batch of tender, richly cinematic songs, with moments of subtle | |
| | revelation that draw on folk and rock music as much as jazz. | |
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| | ?Half seas over? is an old maritime expression used to describe a | |
| | drunken sailor, and though the wiles of alcohol is a theme | |
| | running through some of these new songs, the name has a deeper | |
| | significance for Elan and Adam. ?To me, it?s about the midway | |
| | point?being halfway between here and there,? says McBride-Smith, | |
| | who left the US for France in 2007. ?We also wrote this record | |
| | with an ocean between us, so you could take the name pretty | |
| | literally as a description of our geography as we were composing | |
| | these songs.? | |
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| | Half Seas Over also represents the midway point where two musical | |
| | styles converge. Brownswood mainstay Elan Mehler is an | |
| | accomplished pianist and composer with a wistful, brooding air | |
| | and a sensitivity and lightness of touch that belie his lanky | |
| | frame and dry wit. He has cemented his reputation via two superb | |
| | albums of elegant, introspective modern jazz on Brownswood | |
| | Recordings: ?Scheme For Thought? and ?The After Suite?. Oklahoma | |
| | native Adam McBride-Smith, whose own recordings have ranged from | |
| | alt-country to folk-rock, initially caught Elan?s ear when the | |
| | two were living in the same neighbourhood of Brooklyn, NYC. ?Jazz | |
| | musicians and singer-songwriters don?t always seem to speak the | |
| | same language?, explains Elan. ?But in some ways this project was | |
| | a natural transition for both of us.? One of Adam?s songs, ?I | |
| | Want to Leave You,? proved so memorable to Elan that he later | |
| | caught up with Adam in Paris to re-record it. The resulting | |
| | track, a haunting, sparse duet of piano and vocals is featured on | |
| | Mehler?s ?The After Suite.? | |
| | | |
| | From this collaboration a mutually inspiring working relationship | |
| | developed which brought the duo to a 5-day recording session with | |
| | Max Goldman (drums), Liam Robinson (accordian) and Tod Hedrick | |
| | (bass) at Brooklyn?s Gardentone Studio under the aegis of | |
| | engineer Steve Wall. The resulting record straddles the grey | |
| | areas between jazz, folk and rock music, but seems perfectly at | |
| | ease in its hybrid state, as described by Adam: ?I hope that | |
| | other people hear in this music what we do: something both | |
| | strange and strangely familiar; minimal and complex; the point on | |
| | the horizon between this shore and the other.? | |
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| | Tracklisting: | |
| | | |
| | 01. Get Me To The Station 3:42 | |
| | 02. The New Breed 3:47 | |
| | 03. Sad Mona 4:18 | |
| | 04. Prelude 1:00 | |
| | 05. Evensong 4:57 | |
| | 06. Sunday's Empire 3:06 | |
| | 07. Into The Night 4:08 | |
| | 08. The Hathaways 3:32 | |
| | 09. Just To Clear My Head 5:32 | |
| | 10. Cypress Grove 3:47 | |
| | 11. Here On The Plains 3:46 | |
| | 12. Rake 3:21 | |
| | 13. Long Way Down 4:56 | |
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| | 49:52 | |
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