Tom Waits: Blood Money

Indie Pop / Avant Pop / Muzyka alternatywna
premiera polska: 2002-05-02
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: Digipackowe etui
opis:
Opis Wydawcy
Tytuł drugiego z wydanych jednocześnie albumów Toma Waitsa, "Krwawe pieniądze"sugeruje, iż w przeciwieństwie do "Alice", tu będziemy mieli do czynienia z bardziej przyziemnymi namiętnościami. Tak jest w istocie. Waits proponuje podróż do najmroczniejszych zakamarków ludzkiej podświadomości, do miejsc gdzie pomieszkują demony i gdzie rodzi się przemoc i zbrodnia. Songi z "Blood Money", czasem brutalne, czasem jednak też spowite romantyczną aurą, układają się w wstrząsający moralitet o ludzkiej kondycji. Wszystkie songi - nieco nawiązujące do konwencji kabaretu w stylu Republiki Weimarskiej - napisane zostały dla scenicznej adaptacji posępnego dramatu Georga Buchnera "Woyzeck" z 1837 r., której premiera w reż. Roberta Wilsona odbyła się w 2000 r. w Betty Nansen Theatre w Kopenhadze. Na szczęście, tym razem Tom Waits nie kazał nam czekać na swoje autorskie wykonanie tych utworów tak długo, jak w przypadku "Alice".

Editor's Info:
Blood Money is the fifteenth studio album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on the ANTI- label. It consists of songs Waits and Kathleen Brennan wrote for Robert Wilson's opera Woyzeck. Waits had worked with Wilson on two previous plays: The Black Rider and Alice. Alice was released with Blood Money simultaneously in 2002.
The album contains most of the songs written by Waits and Brennan for Wilson's production of Woyzeck (2000). Wilson's opera was based on the play of the same name by Georg Büchner, which had also inspired Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck. Wilson's Woyzeck premiered at the Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen in November 2000. Asked about releasing two albums at the same time, Waits said "Well, thing is, people get upset when you haven't had a record out in seven years--then they get upset when you put out two at the same time. It's like, 'Where are my eggs?' then 'I didn't order this!' My feeling is that if it turns out to be a success, then it was my idea, and if it's not, then I blame it on someone else." The score is the same as Wilson's play, but Waits explains "I just changed the title. I didn't think anybody would know who Woyzeck is."

muzycy:
Tom Waits – vocals (tracks 1-6, 7-14), piano (tracks 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11), calliope (tracks 1, 13, 14), Chamberlin (tracks 2, 3, 9), acoustic guitar (2, 4, 8, 10), electric guitar (tracks 5 and 9), toy piano (track 12), pump organ (track 13)
Larry Taylor – bass (tracks 1, 3-7, 9), electric guitar (track 7), acoustic guitar (track 13)
Bebe Risenfors – bass clarinet (track 1, 7), accordion (track 2), saxophone (track 7), clarinet (13)
Gino Robair – marimba, bells and gongs (track 1), bongos and timpani (track 2), floor toms (track 9)
Mules Patterson – pod (track 1)
Matthew Sperry – bass (track 2)
Colin Stetson – baritone saxophone (track 2), saxophone (tracks 3 and 7), clarinet (tracks 4 and 10), bass clarinet (tracks 5 and 9), baritone horn, tenor & alto saxophone (track 6)
Dan Plonsey – clarinet (track 2)
Matt Brubeck – cello (tracks 3, 4, 8-11), bass (track 13)
Ara Anderson – trumpet (tracks 3, 7, 13)
Bent Clausen – marimba (track 4), pod (track 5), bass drums (track 7)
Stewart Copeland – drum set and log drums (track 5)
Joe Gore – electric guitar (track 5)
Nik Phelps – trumpet (tracks 5 and 12), baby tuba (track 5)
Charlie Musselwhite – harmonica (tracks 5 and 9)
Andrew Borger – marimba (tracks 6 and 13)
Myles Boisen – guitar (track 7)
Casey Waits – drums (track 7)
Dawn Harms – stroh violin (tracks 8, 11, 13), violin (8-11)

utwory:
1. Misery Is The River Of The World
2. Everything Goes to Hell
3. Coney Island Baby
4. All The World Is Green
5. God's Away On Business
6. Another Man's Vine
7. Knife Chase
8. Lullaby
9. Starving In The Belly Of A Whale
10. The Part You Throw Away
11. Woe
12. Calliope
13. A Good Man Is Hard To Find

wydano: May 2, 2002
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