The Ax In The Oak - Ben Weaver

专辑名称：The Ax In The Oak

艺 术 家：Ben Weaver

音乐类型：Indie/Pop

唱片公司：Bloodshot Records

发行日期：2008年8月12日

专辑语言：英语

相关介绍： The Ax and the Oak is Weaver's 6th album at the ripe old age of 29; it is by far his most adventurous to date. Weaver explains, "The majority of this record was written in Berlin, the summer of 2007. I was staying in a friend's flat in Prenzlauer Berg. I had many pictures in my head at that time. This record is not about Berlin, but about what being in Berlin allowed me to create." Produced by Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine), the album juxtaposes electronic musical sounds with warm acoustic instruments with textural results that defy the usual expectations of the singer/songwriter genre. It's hard to argue with the results - evocative, hushed songs that illuminate Ben's affinity for the natural world of birds, phone booths, empty parking lots, strangers in the checkout line, plastic bags stuck in trees and whatever else typically goes unnoticed in the sidewalk cracks. A former Casket Company warehouse is Weaver's current world headquarters. Multitudinous organs, synthesizers, guitars, a sampler, a piano, a dog, Polaroid cameras, sketch books, New Yorker back issues, boxes of CDs and a PowerBook mark the territory. There is an air of controlled chaos and the musty smell of old tube amps. Weaver writes continuously, a process perhaps more akin to breathing than composing, "I have always identified with those people who make art because they have to, that sense of necessity and urgency. That is why I make art, to fulfill that need within myself and to connect with the people of the world who also cannot live without it." Praise for Ben Weaver "...country-rooted Americana full of weary determination and aphoristic clarity, somewhere between the Band and Tom Waits." The New York Times "...musical postcards that recall a rural Tom Waits, or Greg Brown in his dark, bluesy moments. He's like that spooky old guy who lives in a trailer but tells amazing stories." Utne Reader "Ben Weaver is the most exciting young songwriter I've come across, an American original whose voice and guitar are matched only by the power of his words. His songs are an incredible, haunting gift of music." Author Larry Brown (1951-2004) "...strange, skin-prickling tales picked up from the Moebius strip of a lost highway he's been compelled to travel on.... like a hillbilly Leonard Cohen." Mojo

专辑曲目：

1. White Snow

2. Red Red Fox

3. Soldiers War

4. Anything With Words

5. Pretty Girl

6. Hawks and Crows

7. Dead Bird 8. Said in Stones

9. Alligators and Owls

10. Hey Ray

11. Out Behind the House

12. The History of Weather