October Project

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风格: #民谣摇滚　#前卫流行
地区: Ireland 爱尔兰

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October Project（十月计划）,来自爱尔兰的乐队,由男女参半的6人组成。在签October Project乐队约Sony Music的子厂牌Epic下的三年里，用充满空灵高远而悲伤的旋律创作了两张专辑。而他们不依附于流行的音乐质地注定了无法在大厂牌的商业化生产链中存活，在销量数字和惨淡的排行榜成绩的双重压力下，乐队遭到了公司解约并随后解散。他们那激越而哀伤的的风格受到20世纪90年代流行音乐和New Age风格的影响，但相对其它流行音乐，他们似乎接近于百老汇风格。

在October Project乐队三年音乐旅程中，他们共发表两张充满展翅翱翔的，连绵回荡的，令人陶醉的音乐专辑。他们热情而略带忧伤的音乐为90年代另类音乐和 New Age 浪潮的乐坛带来一股清新的感觉。尽管他们承认在音乐风格上和早期60年代的Jefferson Airplane乐队相似，但乐队看上去和百老汇的音乐家们更有共同点，而不是现在流行歌手们。和现在的流行女歌手们相比，Mary Fahl的声音无疑是更具穿透力的，她的嗓音好像没有任何阻力似的，成为乐队音乐的焦点。乐队四位歌手的优美和声营造出古典合唱团音乐式的展翅翱翔的音乐效果。这些悦耳的音符都出自Emil Adler之手，他擅长演奏钢琴、电子琴和小风琴；Marina Belica也演奏电子琴，不过她更擅长和Mary Fahl演唱和谐的二重奏；David Sabatino的节奏吉他和电吉他演奏为乐队带来了流行摇滚风格的元素；乐队的第五位成员Adler的妻子Julie Flanders则包揽了乐队大部分的写词工作，她的歌词是飘渺的神秘主义和朴实的听觉感受的完美结合，歌曲故事和那热情向往的音乐风格的完美结合。歌曲 “Take Me As I Am”就是取自Anne Rice小说有关吸血鬼的黑色爱情故事。

乐队在一个朋友的家里开始了他们的音乐生涯，但真正创造出他们那种与众不同的音乐是在1993年乐队录制他们的首张同名专辑的录音棚里。首张专辑由 Peter Collins制作，第二张专辑“Falling FartherIn”在1995年登上美国Billboard’s Top 200排行榜。显然这个成绩对Sony旗下的Epic唱片公司是不够的，公司后来解除了和乐队的和约，尽管后来证实这一决定是错误的。1996年 OctoberProject结束了他们的乐队旅程，宣布解散。

October Project是一支男女参半的6人团体，女主音Mary曾在欧洲修炼美声，这使她的嗓音犹如希腊神话里的人物般令人遐想。3年的音乐生涯，October Project出版的2张专辑都以悠扬、清净和心痛旋律为主线。他们激情、悲伤的情歌主要还是受非主流流行乐和New Age双重影响的。但是，这个爱尔兰团对百老汇元素更甚于对别的音乐的传承。

更值得注意的是乐队主音Mary Fahl的宏大、有力的演唱方式，这极大的区别于近期女声的“缥缈之声”。她对人声音调的支配是乐队的一个视点。乐队4个成员都有出声的机会，人声共鸣的广辽感频繁让人想起古典乐里的合声。

乐队最初的排练都是在朋友的车库里，但他们与众不同的细节修饰都是在他们录制首张（同名）专辑时不断在录音室里完成的。这张专辑完成于93年，制作人Peter Collins以前为类似乐队Indigo Girls工作过。他们的第二张专辑《Falling Farther In》95年进入了Billboard的Top200，可是这样的成绩对Sony旗下的Epic唱片公司实在是微不足道，合同就此被中止了。很快，乐队也解散了。令歌迷感到欣慰的是，2003年，这个组合重新站到一起，出了他们的第三张专辑Different Eyes。

by Darryl Cater

In their brief, three-year career, October Project released two albums stuffed to the seams with soaring, sweeping, aching melodies. Their intense, plaintive pop songs are tinged with the influence of both the alternative pop and new age movements of the 1990s, but they seem to have more in common with Broadway musicals than with any other pop musicians (although the band has admitted a similarity to early Jefferson Airplane recordings). Both of the latter comparisons are in large measure due to the enormous sound of Mary Fahl's powerful lead vocals. At a time when most female pop singers affected some degree of waifishness, Fahl held nothing back. Her voice was the focal point of a sound dominated by vocal harmonies -- all four of the band's musicians sing at some point, and the soaring arrangements have provoked frequent comparisons to classical choral music. The melodies are written by Emil Adler, who plays piano, keyboards and harmonium. Marina Belica also plays keyboards, and sings duets with Fahl on almost every chorus. David Sabatino's rhythmic acoustic and electric guitars are the primary reason these string-dominated ballads remain in the realm of pop-rock music. The fifth band member is not a musician: Adler's wife, Julie Flanders, wrote most of the lyrics. Her words combine a subtle mysticism with an earthy sensuality, and her stories are well suited to the intense yearning of the music. One of her songs, "Take Me As I Am," is a dark love story inspired by Anne Rice's novel Interview With the Vampire. The band began its career playing in friends' living rooms, but they really constructed the specifics of their distinctive sound in the studio while in the process of recording their first (self-titled) album. Released in 1993, the record was produced by Peter Collins (who has also produced the similarly harmony-driven Indigo Girls). Their second album, Falling Farther In, surfaced on Billboard's Top 200 in 1995. Apparently that wasn't enough for Sony's Epic label, which booted the band off its rolls in 1996 and October Project disbanded shortly thereafter. Three years later, Adler and Flanders decided to continue on by releasing A Thousand Days under the moniker November Project and before long, Belica invited the two to participate in making her debut album Decembergirl, on which Belica covered "Return To Me", originally found on October Project's 1993 self titled debut. After the experience of performing on Decembergirl, Adler, Flanders, and Belica chose to reunite as a trio under the name October Project to continue the legacy, which they did with the self-released 2003 EP Different Eyes.

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