Day (豆瓣)

表演者: Candida Pax
流派: 民谣
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2005-08-23
出版者: Shadoks Music
唱片数: 1
条形码: 0801670001522

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9.2

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　　With a nod to collectors, Day is one of the rarest and most difficult albums to find on vinyl from the Deroy label. Coming out in 1971, this is a sincere underground gem that’s worthy of your consideration, a haunting number drenched with fuzzed out guitars, lightly handed piano, along with acoustic picking filtering in an out of the background, making for a late night couch-... (展开全部) 　　With a nod to collectors, Day is one of the rarest and most difficult albums to find on vinyl from the Deroy label. Coming out in 1971, this is a sincere underground gem that’s worthy of your consideration, a haunting number drenched with fuzzed out guitars, lightly handed piano, along with acoustic picking filtering in an out of the background, making for a late night couch-bound intoxicatingly smooth evening.
　　The music nearly drips, bringing to mind the John Mayall classic “Thinking Of My Woman”, though the blues riffs are much deeper, resounding with an atmosphere of shadowy arrangements that wrap themselves around you, due in part to the twin lead guitars, that come across with a fluid brightness, and always with the purpose of musical flight in mind.
　　Now the uncomfortable news … this is a christian band, and that puts a real bend in the album for me, as there’s nothing I enjoy less then being subverted so overtly, making me feel as I do when someone asks me question, only to discover that within that question was the genesis of their stopping me, and that was to belay their belief system. With that in mind, one could certainly delete those tracks with the christian message, though you’re going to have to filter through the lyrics, which is what I did, and enjoy the blistering fine music that’s left. Yet still, I’m not at all sure if I can walk the cat backwards, and keep this album in my collection, as like the typical medical meaning of ‘Candida’, I’m not sure I want the yeast like infection.
　　*** The Fun Facts: Pax (in the Christian Church) is the kissing of a tablet by all the participants at a mass depicting the Crucifixion or other sacred object; the kiss of peace.
　　Candida is of Latin origin, and the meaning is "white". From “candidus”, the color was associated by Christians with purity and salvation and is the name of several early saints, including a woman supposedly cured by Saint Peter himself.
　　The new wave of 21st century exhumations of utterly obscure psychedelic/post-psych efforts in the late '60s and early '70s is at once noble and almost quixotic -- some bands that have one OK cut featured on a compilation ultimately only deserved that much attention. British quartet Candida Pax's one album, Day, is a perfect example of this -- reissued by Shadoks some 25 years after its first appearance, it's a pleasant album that certainly is no utterly lost masterpiece. It is enjoyable, though, and if nothing else has a story behind it that is more unique than some: according to a reproduction of a small newspaper piece in the liner notes, the roots of the northern English group were in a variety of spiritual and gospel bands. This influence carries over clearly into the lyrical images, providing a different spin on the Jesus rock of the period from characters like Norman Greenbaum, say. When singers Colin Stott and Stuart Mellor sing lines like "Jesus help me," it's more than simply rote imagery. That said, musically the bandmembers are competent players with a bit of flash and are ultimately more successful as a unit than individually -- nobody stands out in particular but everyone comes together to create some OK work. The opening title track establishes the sound of the rest of the album well enough -- polite blues explorations in a post-Clapton/Peter Green sense, gently sung vocals instead of rasping passion, a sense of reverb and hush that could almost derive from mid-'60s Yardbirds. From there, Day steers between steady-as-she-goes songs （"Don't Leave Me," "Darkness"） and gentle curveballs like "White Dove," the sole track written by all members, which thanks to the addition of recorder becomes a gentle pastoral ramble, and the secret winner "My Life," the most overtly gospel-styled number and perhaps the most beautiful as a result. One nice touch from the original liner notes: "The studio version of these songs is not the live stage version…."