Half Seas Over (豆瓣)

表演者: Half Seas Over
专辑类型: Import
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2010-05-04
出版者: Brownswood Recordings
唱片数: 1
条形码: 5060180320652

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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... (展开全部) 　　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.
　　?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.?
　　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.?