The High Kings
- 艺人
- The High Kings
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Manhattan Records
- 发行时间
- 2008年02月26日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
一张美丽的爱尔兰民谣专辑。
这是The High Kings的首张专辑。专辑开篇的《Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore》是一首非常著名的爱尔兰传统乐曲，讲述了一个男子为了让心上人能过上更好的生活，决定远航打拼，临行前依依不舍的道别和希望早日荣归故里的心愿。是整张专辑中为数不多的几首大气磅礴的曲目。《Will Ye Go Lassie, Go》则是一首美丽的足够让人落泪的情歌，美丽的歌词，美丽的和声，美丽的伴奏……是整张专辑中最优秀的作品之一。《Galway to Graceland》是苏格兰作曲家 Richard Thompson 的作品，讲述了一位精神失常的妇女，不惜抛弃一切，独自从爱尔兰飞往美国，到达猫王的陵墓，她整天跪在墓前，工作人员请她离开，她却指责工作人员，并表示自己已与猫王结婚，最终被警察抓走，这首歌采用了无伴奏和声的演唱方式，四个人无可挑剔的唱功被展现的淋漓尽致。之后的《Black Velvet Band》也是一首非常优秀的歌曲，讲的是一个年轻人遇见了一位美丽的女郎，被她所吸引，没想到这个女人确实个扒手，后来女扒手把自己所盗来的东西全给了年轻人，年轻人则成了替罪羊，锒铛入狱，《The Rocky Road to Dublin》是一首非常著名的爱尔兰民谣，相比大家都已耳熟能详，The High Kings 以充满男性魅力的雄厚的无伴奏和声，唱出了爱尔兰移民者遭受英国人的种种屈辱，于是两方大打出手，最后年轻人们只得踏上艰辛的归途。《Marie's Wedding》是一首苏格兰民谣，内容很简单，讲述了朋友们去参加Marie的婚礼的故事，曲风轻快而活泼。《Fields of Glory》是专辑中的又一大气歌曲，编曲十分独特。《Ar Eireann Ni Neosainn Ce Hi》是成员Martin和Darren用爱尔兰语演唱的抒情慢歌，歌词写得十分美丽，两位成员的嗓音也给听众留下了深刻的印象，《The Little Beggarman》同样是专辑中不可不听的一首优秀歌曲，歌曲中运用了爱尔兰人独特的“无词过门”，加上轻快地节奏，使整首歌显得十分俏皮活泼，紧随其后的《The Beggarman Jig》则是对歌曲的补充，也是专辑中唯一的一首纯乐器演奏作品，由爱尔兰小提琴家 Nollaig Casey 演奏。专辑正片的最后一首歌《The Parting Glass》可谓是经典中的经典，也是爱尔兰人民离别时最爱唱的歌曲，The High Kings 演唱的版本以清唱开头，在后面还加入了悠扬的风笛，让人回味无穷。Bonus track《The Wild Rover》也是爱尔兰一首很著名的歌曲，而这首歌的音轨是从他们在都柏林演唱会中提取出的现场版本。
by Stewart Mason
The debut album by the High Kings, brought to you by the same folks who had a hand in faux-Celtic abominations like Celtic Woman and Riverdance, brings up an important philosophical question: just exactly what is the demographic for this blend of middlebrow easy listening and buffed-and-polished Irish folk music? More to the point, what does that audience (which was comparatively massive for the world music fringe: this album actually made the lower depths of the Billboard Top 200 album chart) get out of the antiseptic gloss of The High Kings that isn't available to them through the equally cleaned-up and mainstream likes of, say, the Chieftains or Clannad? Listening to the painfully polite and over-manicured tunes here, it seems like the target market for The High Kings is those consumers whose first exposure to the pennywhistle was Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On," and who just naturally assume that that's what Irish folk music sounds like as a result. That sense of maudlin earnestness permeates nearly the entire album, even on tunes that are striving to be upbeat and frolicsome, such as the unbearably twee "Marie's Wedding." The nadir is an a cappella version of Richard Thompson's "From Galway to Graceland" that takes a lovely albeit slightly moist tune and turns it into sickly, sentimental treacle that makes the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem sound like Thin Lizzy in comparison. People who actually like Celtic music should probably stay far away from this hot Irish mess.
最新简评（共7条）
- @无本(以乐会友)：爱尔兰高地之王 21484,83,7
- @下颚波尔卡：Vintage.
- @Speedy_Qin：爱尔兰真是拥有最纯净最美丽音乐的国度。
- @lina(I'm Mr. OK)：特别喜欢The Rocky Road to Dublin
- @wunimuga：清澈的和声纯挚的情感
- @南宫忆晨(有种平静，死水波澜……)：爱尔兰民谣,
- @弹不完的污吏：很不错 和声也棒