But One Day...
- 艺人
- Ute Lemper
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- DECCA
- 发行时间
- 2002年11月19日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by William Ruhlmann
Ute Lemper, who has devoted much of her recording career to resurrecting German interwar songs, particularly those of Kurt Weill, and who included such Weill successors as Nick Cave and Elvis Costello on her last album, The Punishing Kiss, here adds her own name to the songwriting credits while continuing to find ways to explore her favorite music. This is a collection of bleak songs, influenced, one can't help thinking, by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks this immigrant New Yorker mentions in her liner notes. (The album's photographs, meanwhile, are dominated by images of the Brooklyn Bridge, including one shot in which the World Trade Center is visible.) The tempos are slow, the arrangements lushly string-filled, and Lemper, a vocal chameleon, sings in a breathy, breaking voice, beginning with Weill's "September Song." Her own contributions, which can be termed "art songs" in the sense that they dispense with such conventions as choruses or easily hummed melodies, are full of images of despair expressed in a charmingly broken English. No matter how far afield she goes, Lemper is never much removed from Weimar Germany, as "Lena," a song about a haunted Holocaust descendent living in Mexico, shows. Her most conventional original song is the title track, a lovelorn lament. The songs of Jacques Brel and Astor Piazzolla are brought in to expand on the sense of anguish and depression, and at the end Lemper returns to an old favorite, Bertolt Brecht, for "Ballad of Marie Sanders, the Jew's Whore," in which a German woman is excoriated for associating with a Jew. Lemper then closes with her own reflection on Brecht, a comment equally applicable to the troubled world situation of 2002. But One Day... is an artist's telling reflection on her own heritage and her view of the post-9/11 climate.
最新简评（共7条）
- @大喵(不要自我设限.....)：
- @张志海66：ute lemper
- @sikkim(一個人的戰爭)：
- @frankie8923( )：很多人不认识她，可是她来开过演唱会。嗓音，演技和戏路胜过其他人太多了。
- @tinal：多年前痴迷过的一张。
- @爪哇爪哇(我是个悲观主义者,无心痛...)：很好听啊，为何没人评? 泛彼柏舟 ( ) 2014-04-30 22:34 真的很好听，可能知道她的人太少了╮(╯▽╰)╭