Tom Waits: Frank's Wild Years [Vinyl 1LP]

Indie Pop / Avant Pop / Muzyka alternatywna
premiera polska: 2023-09-22
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: Gatefoldowe etui
opis:
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[…] 'Franks Wild Yeras' to tytuł 'romantycznej opery w dwóch aktach", choć klimat lepiej oddaje wyobrażenie sobie Kurta Weila bawiącego się na karnawale w Nowym Orleanie. […]

Editor's info:
Originally released in 1987 on Island Records, Franks Wild Years is Tom Waits’ 10th studio album. Titled for a play of the same name, Franks Wild Years is an iteration of the track “Frank’s Wild Years” from Waits’ album Swordfishtrombones. Also referenced as the album that closes out the “trilogy” – preceded by Swordfishtrombonesand Rain Dogs. Remastered for the first time ever from the original ½” flat master tape. Available on 180g black vinyl.

Detailed Description:
Originally released in 1987 on Island Records, Franks Wild Years is Tom Waits’ 10th studio album. Titled for a play of the same name and authored by Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, Franks Wild Years was performed by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1986. Franks Wild Years is an iteration of the track “Frank’s Wild Years” from Waits’ 1983 album Swordfishtrombones.

The album divides the story neatly into two acts and although titled “un operachi romantic”, there is no opera in Franks. There is a hilarious touch of operatic styling by Waits himself in the song “Temptation.” His vocal character varies wildly throughout the work’s 17 songs, and is no more impressive than when the gruff, growly singer turns to impeccable Sinatra-esque phrasing on the Vegas number, “Straight To The Top.” While Franks featured a 14-member cast on stage, the album is all-Waits—yet suggests a multitude of characters by virtue of his chameleon vocals. The album is a startling group of lost dreams, bad dreams, dreams that might not even be dreams. The music is nightmarish, ethereal, beautiful. Think broken calliopes played by genius children, horns played at dawn in a graveyard, banjos leaking through practice room walls. Titles evoke Frank’s dime-store Odyssey: “Straight To The Top,” “Blow Wind Blow,” “Temptation,” “I’ll Be Gone.” NME ranked the work the number five album of 1987.

Newly remastered for the first time ever from the original ½” flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler. The album packaging has also been restored. Franks Wild Years includes tracks such as “Cold Cold Ground,” “Way Down In The Hole” – versions of which were used as the theme music of HBO’s series The Wire – and “Temptation.” Available on 180g black vinyl.

muzycy:
Jay Anderson – bass (8)
Michael Blair – drums, conga, percussion, maracas, marimba, orchestra bells, glockenspiel (1–4, 6, 10–14)
Kathleen Brennan – vocal arrangements (4)
Angela Brown – background vocals (11)
Ralph Carney – saxophone, baritone horn, violin, tenor saxophone (1–2, 4–6, 8, 10–13, 17)
Greg Cohen - bass, alto horn, horn arrangements, Leslie bass pedals (1–6, 10–14, 16–17)
David Hidalgo – accordion (15–16)
Leslie Holland – background vocals (11)
Lynne Jordan – background vocals (11)
Marc Ribot – guitar, banjo (1, 4, 11, 14)
William Schimmel – piano, pump organ, accordion, Leslie bass pedals, cocktail piano (1, 2, 5–6, 10, 12–13, 17)
Larry Taylor – bass, upright bass (2, 7, 8, 15)
Moris Tepper – guitar (4, 6, 10, 14)
Francis Thumm – prepared piano, pump organ (3, 10)
Tom Waits – vocals, pump organ, Optigan, guitar, vocal stylings, rooster, piano, Farfisa, Mellotron, drums, conga, tambourine
Izzy Stradlin – unconfirmed appearance on rhythm guitar

utwory:
A1. Hang On St. Christopher
A2. Straight To The Top (Rhumba)
A3. Blow Wind Blow
A4. Temptation
A5. Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
A6. I'll Be Gone
A7. Yesterday Is Here
A8. Please Wake Me Up
A9. Franks Theme
B1. More Than Rain
B2. Way Down In The Hole
B3. Straight To The Top (Vegas)
B4. I'll Take New York
B5. Telephone Call From Istanbul
B6. Cold Cold Ground
B7. Train Song
B8. Innocent When You Dream (78)

wydano: 2023-09-22 (1987)
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