The Raven

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艺人: Lou Reed
语种: 英语
厂牌: Sire Records
发行时间: 2003年01月28日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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非法利益合唱团灵魂人物以Edgar Allan Poe的诗为蓝本之创作

大卫．鲍伊、萝莉o安德生、爵士萨克斯风传奇乐手Ornette Coleman还有演员威廉．达佛…跨刀助阵

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如果你熟悉文学作品，那么对十九世纪的美国作家Edgar Allan Poe一定不陌生。喜欢侦探小说者更记得他笔下的杜宾侦探（连福尔摩斯都评论过他）。艾伦波的作品极多，Alan Parsons Project在1976年曾专门为艾伦波的作品出过一张专辑，名称是为「Tales Of Mystery And Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe」，其中单曲就叫做&The Raven&，不过路・瑞德（Lou Reed）的新作「The Raven」却是长达两小时的长篇巨作，不仅仅只是一首歌，也可见The Raven对艾伦波而言虽只是诗篇，但重要性并不逊于其小说。

路・瑞德从十四岁便开始唱歌，同时也填填写写歌词，不过到大学参加诗社才写出些有深度的东西。1964年与键盘手John Cale于纽约合组非法利益合唱团（Velvet Underground），主唱兼吉他手的路・瑞德便一直是各方焦点，这个被普普艺术大师安迪．沃荷（Andy Warhol）发掘且担任经纪人的团体不仅是纽约摇滚乐发展上的重要乐团，其粗糙、反商业体制呈现摇滚原始精神的理念也使得他们被推崇为地下音乐或非主流音乐的始祖，身为团长加上作曲主力的路・瑞德更被後人尊为庞克教父。1970年路瑞德离团发展个人事业，先後与当时叱吒风云的艺人合作，包括前卫摇滚团Yes的吉他手Steve Howe、键盘Rick Wakeman以及华丽摇滚之王大卫鲍伊（David Bowie），于是造就了&Walk On The Wild Side&这首商业排行曲。路・瑞德的作品从六○年代一直延伸到二十一世纪，创作理念也不断更新，因此在2003年初推出这张「The Raven」，算得上是他近年来最富野心与繁复的创作。

路・瑞德在2000年以艾伦波的诗为蓝本与前卫艺术家Robert Wilson合作【POE-Try】在德国汉堡的剧院首演，并且于全球巡回，此後路・瑞德再次浸淫在艾伦波的文学作品中，于是以哲学意味浓厚的「The Raven」为新专辑概念，「The Raven」专辑的推出也算是【POE-Try】在听觉上的延伸。多位艺人参与新专辑的录制，包括大卫．鲍伊、Laurie Anderson爵士萨克斯风传奇乐手 Ornette Coleman还有演员威廉．达佛（Willem Dafoe）…。路・瑞德包办声音、混音、词曲写作，尤其歌词中押韵与诗的写成更显出摇滚歌者不凡且不断进步的创作能力。在众多新曲之中路・瑞德亦诠释两首旧作 &The Bed&与&Perfect Day&。「The Raven」分为两个版本，一个是2CD的完整版，歌曲超过两小时与七十五分钟的单CD，唯有细细聆听才能领略这张结合着艾伦波与路・瑞德思想的结晶。

by Mark Deming

Edgar Allan Poe was a man who usually looked on the dark side of life, had more than a few less-than-healthy romantic and sexual obsessions, was known to dabble in dangerous drugs, and was fascinated with the possibilities of the English language, so it's no wonder why Lou Reed regards Poe as a kindred spirit. In his liner notes to the album The Raven, Reed touches on the parallels between their work when he writes, &I have reread and rewritten Poe to ask the same questions again. Who am I? Why am I drawn to do what I should not?...Why do we love what we cannot have? Why do we have a passion for exactly the wrong thing?& Reed's obsession with Poe's work found a creative outlet when visionary theatrical director Robert Wilson commissioned Reed to adapt Poe's works to music for a production called POE-Try, and The Raven collects the material Reed wrote for this project, as well as a number of dramatic interpretations of Poe's work, featuring performances by Willem Dafoe, Steve Buscemi, Elizabeth Ashley, Amanda Plummer, and others. The limited-edition two-disc version of The Raven gives a nearly equal balance to words and music; while the single-disc edition is dominated by Reed's songs, the double-disc set features a much greater number of spoken-word pieces, most of which have been filtered through Reed's imagination, with a more intense focus on sex, drugs, and conflict as a result. While the condensed version of The Raven sounds like one of the oddest and most audacious rock albums of recent memory, the complete edition feels more like a lengthy performance piece (albeit a rather unusual one), and while it lacks something in the way of a central narrative, the focus on the letter as well as the spirit of Poe's work seems a great deal clearer here. The pitch of the acting is sometimes a bit sharp (especially Dafoe, who seems to be projecting to the last row of the balcony), but the con brio performances certainly suit the tenor of the material and Poe's writing style. Musically, The Raven is all over the map, leaping from low-key acoustic pieces to full-bore, window-rattling rock & roll, with a number of stops along the way. Reed also touches more than casually on his own past as well, with new recordings of &The Bed& and &Perfect Day& added to the sequence, and for a man not known for his ability to collaborate well, The Raven is jam-packed with guest artists, including David Bowie, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Ornette Coleman, and Laurie Anderson, all of whom are used to their best advantage. The mix of ingredients on The Raven is heady, and the result is more than a little bizarre, but there's no mistaking the fact that Reed's heart and soul are in this music; even the most oddball moments bleed with passion and commitment, whether he's handing the vocal mic over to Buscemi for a faux-lounge number, conjuring up brutal guitar distortion while his band wails behind him, or confronting his fears and desires with just a piano to guide him. Truth to tell, Reed hasn't sounded this committed and engaged on record since Magic and Loss over a decade before; The Raven reaches for more than it can grasp, especially in its two-hours-plus expanded edition, and is dotted with experiments that don't work and ideas that don't connect with their surroundings. But the good stuff is strong enough that anyone who cares about Lou Reed's body of work, or Edgar Allan Poe's literary legacy, ought to give it a careful listen.

The Raven

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