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艺人
Cara Dillon
语种
英语
厂牌
星外星音乐
发行时间
2003年09月22日
专辑类别
录音室专辑

专辑介绍

Cara Dillon的第二张专辑。

他们的第二张唱片是在他们位于萨默塞特(Somerset)的家里完成的,名为《甜蜜的自由》(Sweet Liberty),像第一张专辑一样让人感觉亲密和轻松,又加入了一些更有吸引力的东西。这张专辑由萨姆制作,专辑名称选自“The Emigrant’s Farewell”,曲风基调抓住了卡拉对传统歌曲进行情感诠释时的精髓。其中还有5首狄龙和莱克曼以前原创的歌曲,以及卡拉那首已经成名的《那里有玫瑰》“There Were Roses”(获得2003年英国广播公司民乐奖最佳歌曲提名),这首歌曲演绎了托米·杉德(Tommy Sand)的那个动人的爱尔兰故事。她第一次唱这首歌是应比利·扣纳利(Billy Connolly)之邀在他的电视节目上演出,结果观众的反映非常强烈。“大家可能会感到意外,不过我的确是从来没有做过什么和政治相关的事情,但是那一刻我真的是对和平有特别强烈的感觉,和这首歌的精神产生了强烈的共鸣,使得我非常自信能够把它很好的表演出来。”

随着卡拉声音的逐渐成熟,萨姆的创作也同步的随之发展。他们的歌曲有了新的深度。尽管她的自信越来越多,但是《甜蜜的自由》比已往任何时候都更加让她贴近她生根的故土,里面的歌曲“The Gem of the Roe”以及 “The Winding River Roe”都深深的牵引她回到如梦的童年,那个叫做Dungiven的小城。那里长大的孩子都知道她歌曲里所讲述的故事。

她现在住在英格兰,但是仍旧和她的家乡保持着紧密的联系,不忘故土对她的养育。她清晰的记得她的母亲带着她和她的姐姐周游爱尔兰,倾听酒馆里的老人吟唱生动的民谣。她的姐姐玛丽(Mary)就是一名出色的歌手,曾在《甜蜜的自由》中客串演出。是玛丽发现了她曾经录制的那些酒馆中的老人的歌,她把这些“珍宝”转交给卡拉,后来卡拉在这张专辑中加入了这些老歌中的好几首。这些对于卡拉来说特别的亲切,因为昏暗的酒馆房间正是她训练的场所。她还记得以前听一些伟大的传统歌手演出 ,像Paddy Tunney 和Rosin White,他们都经常去Dungiven表演。结果转眼之间,就轮到她登台演唱了。14岁的时候,她就在全爱尔兰传统歌曲演唱大赛中获得成功,一年之后,她加入了她的第一个乐队——Oige。他们也很成功。但是1995年,当卡拉正准备好进入大学的时候,她突然接到电话邀请她去英国代替凯特(Kate Rusby)参加Equation乐队。

参加Equation乐队是让她无法抗拒的。Equation乐队隶属华纳,正如日中天,但是他们录制的唱片“Return to Me”并没有得以公开发行。不过,卡拉在这里找到了和她拥有心灵共鸣的萨姆·莱克曼(Sam Lakeman),后来他们二人决定离开Equation乐队尝试二重唱。随后他们和一系列著名的制作人和作曲家进行了合作,但是却经历了一段漫长的挫折期。似乎没有哪次合作能够实现卡拉和萨姆真正想要追逐的本质,因此他们决定从头来过,另起炉灶。

在此过程中,他们经历不断。像卡拉这样的声音绝对不会缺乏听众。她在麦克(Mike Oldfield)的节目中演唱了“Man in the Rain”,和格斯特兰(Ghostlan)同台演出,一起演唱,同Dolores Keane, Mary Black, Eleanor McEvoy和Maura O’Connell一起参加著名的“Women’s Heat”巡回演出。现在她拥有了自己的乐队。卡拉说:“我非常的幸运。能够和伟大的音乐家一起演出我热爱的音乐,我们从中获得了很多快乐——没有比这更美妙的了。”

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Seth Lakeman — 小提琴 violin

Mary Dillon (前任Deanta吉安塔乐队主唱) — 和声 backing vocals

Ben Nicholls — 电吉他 electric and uplight Bass

Callum MacColl — 电吉他electric, 木吉他 acoustic guitar 齐特琴zither

James O'Grady — 爱尔兰肘风笛 uillean pipes ,低音哨笛 low whistle

Liam Bradley — 打击乐器 percussion, 手鼓 tambourine

Roy Dodds — 鼓 drums

Liam O'Maonlai — 和声 backing vocals

Brian Finnegan — flute

John Reynolds (Ghostland乐队) — 鼓 drums

Caroline Dale (Ghostland乐队) — 中提琴 cello

专辑曲目:

标记 ★ 的是由Cara Dillon 和 Sam Lakeman 创作的

标记 ★★ 的是由Cara Dillon, Sam Lakeman 以及 Ned Bigbam创作的

标记 ◆ 的是爱尔兰传统民谣

标记 ◆◆ 的是由Tommy Sands创作的

标记 ◆◆◆的是由Jobnny Moyniban 和Terry Woods 创作的

01. High Tide ★★

02. The Winding River Roe ◆

03. Everywhere ★

04. There Were Roses ◆◆

05. Where Are You ★

06. The Gem of the Roe ◆

07. Bonny Bonny ◆

08. Erin the Green ◆

09. Broken Bridges ★

10. Falling Like a Star ★

11. Standing on the Shore ◆◆◆

12. The Emigrant's Farewell ◆

In the accompanying photography to her second album, Cara Dillon looks anywhere but directly at the camera. She dwells on the daisies spreading before her, or gazes out of fr

ame toward an unseen vanishing point. The art direction suggests Dillon might be a bit uncomfortable with the hubbub her debut brought, and her sudden role as the beguiling young savior of contemporary Irish folk music. Sweet Liberty retains the structure of that album, mixing traditional with original material. But as effortlessly beautiful as Dillon's voice is throughout, the album's emotional center is brittle. "Right well do I remember now/Those happy childhood days," she sings over swells of harmonium and keyboard. "No other joys I know/For my heart remains on the verdant plains/Near the winding river Roe" — the traditional's words have a new gravity in the context of Dillon's career. The same holds true for the longing soldier's lament "Bonny Bonny," reborn here in a lush arrangement of Uillean pipes and martial drums. Appropriately, Dillon and partner Sam Lakeman recorded Sweet Liberty at home. Those comfortable environs appear in the shadows of "Erin the Green," dedicated to "Mammy and Daddy" and warmed by piano and melodica; the original "High Tide" — while it somehow recalls Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" — is also glanced with the bright song of a flute, even if it ultimately seems forlorn. "Everywhere" avoids that emotion, since it's a pretty little aside seemingly destined for single status. And yet, Sweet Liberty has also received notice for Dillon's affecting version of "There Were Roses," Tommy Sands' powerful tale of the Troubles, religion, and bitter resignation. This is the emotional seesaw of Sweet Liberty. Its arrangements are so graceful, and Dillon's voice is like woven silk. But there is an overriding sense of sighing defense, that she's performing the music this way to reclaim it, to return it to a personal level, and the places — kitchen tables, quiet hillsides, empty pubs, and reflective memory — where the music has always been most powerful.


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