Calexico - Aerocalexico.rar

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我也不知道我是怎么发现这个乐队的，影响很深，今天，看了一下他们的背景，竟然是亚利桑那图森背景，知道那里有univ of arizona。


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Review by John Schacht
This is one of the better odds and ends collections you'll run across from any band — with one or two more vocal tracks, and a pinch more of their mariachi-surf-Ennio Morricone signature sound; this tour/website disc would be indistinguishable from the band's official releases and arguably as good. That's because Aerocalexico is home to some of the band's best songs, B-sides, and compilation entries, like the hard-driving "Crooked Road & the Briar," the holiday song "Gift X-Change," covers of the traditional ("All the Pretty Horses"), Nick Drake's "Clothes of Sand," and yet another version of "Crystal Frontier" (the band's EP, Even My Sure Things Fall Through, features two more versions). Many of the vocal-less interludes may be little more than studio snippets that don't amount to too much taken out of context (eight of the 23 tracks are under one minute long), but woven together they form a cohesive quilt for the traditional songs, and some of the more elaborate instrumentals. Some of the soundscapes stand on their own quite well, offering a compendium of the Calexico stylebook: "Blacktop" features tape loops, synth wash, and a slightly distorted nylon-stringed guitar accompanying the grizzled voice of Southwest historian and author Lawrence Clark Powell; "Impromptu for Piano & Contrabass" is a moody, Erik Satie-inspired composition showcasing the classical leanings of bandleaders Joey Burns (contrabass), and John Convertino (piano); the desert noir-like "Sequoia" is an evocative, image-conjuring soundtrack; and the full-band treatment that Goldfrapp's "Humano" gets morphs it from an electronica James Bond homage into a jazz-inflected, instrumental rave-up. Calexico is one of indie rock's more imaginative musical collectives, and Aerocalexico is a wide-ranging document of their talents and influences, despite its humble origins.


Tracks
   
   
   
   
  Title   
  Composer   
  Time   

      1   All the Pretty Horses  Burns, Traditional     
       2   Blacktop  Burns, Powell     
       3   '64 Ford Fairlane  Convertino     
       4   Transistorites  Burns, Luca     
       5   Clothes of Sand  Drake     
       6   Train of Thought  Gelb     
       7   Redwood  Niehaus     
       8   Gift X-Change  Burns     
       9   TV Room  Burns Bros.     
       10   Inch by Inch  Burns, Convertino     
       11   Reverse Ranch  Burns     
       12   Crooked Road and the Briar  Burns     
       13   Impromptu for Piano and Contrabass  Convertino     
       14   6 White Horses  Gallagher, Traditional     
       15   Sequoia  Burns, Kupersmith, McCombs     
       16   Crawlspace  Burns     
       17   Humano (Instrumental)  Goldfrapp     
       18   At the Table He Sat Alone With a Glass and Bottle of Wine  Convertino     
       19   Az Room  Burns     
       20   Bees and the Flies  Trad.     
       21   Crystal Frontier  Burns     
       22   Hush A-Bye  Burns, Convertino     
       23   Singing Wind Ranch  McIntyre  





一張聽爵士，聽搖滾的人應該都會喜歡的專輯。
很棒，適合亂七八糟的情緒。

■  (文/楊久穎)
1990 年，曾在加州大學 Irvine 分校研習古典音樂的 Joey Burns，遇上了實驗樂團 Giant Sand 的團員 John Convertino，於是開始了 Calexico 的音樂生涯；雖說樂團成立於亞歷桑那吐桑市，但在他們的音樂中，卻感受不到任何屬於沙漠的乾涸枯熱，取而代之的，是宛如清泉微風般，令人沈澱心緒、在舒緩暢快之餘又免不了勾起一絲懷舊心態的溫暖情緒。

在 Calexico 甫成立之初，曾與吐桑當地的 Friends of Dean Martinez 樂團合作，並開始學習演奏馬林巴琴、大提琴、手風琴、電顫琴等各種樂器，在樂風中注入混合非洲音樂、南方草根、爵士等元素，並於 1996 年開始與 Barbara Manning、Victoria Williams、Vic Chesnutt、Lisa Germano （以 Op8 團名）等著名樂手合作演出，並自 1997 起，在 Quarterstick 旗下發行了《 Spoke》、《 The Black Light 》（1998）《 Hot Rail 》（2000）等專輯。



Calexico 有著多變的音樂風情，卻是每個層面都細緻優雅、引人入勝；除了打動人心，更能舒緩情緒，彷如和煦的春日陽光般，令人忍不住微笑聆聽。



This intro is more detailed.
http://www.tmfhk.com/features/calexico.html


公 路‧草 根‧樂 與 怒: Calexico
Calexico，一個來自美國阿里桑那州南部Tucson的雙人樂團，兩位主要成員的名字，分別是Joey Burns和John Convertino，在八十年代中後期，他們是一隊喚作Giant Sand的樂團之低音結他手和鼓手，提到Giant Sand，他們是美國八十年代新音樂文藝復興第二波時崛起的勢力份子，雖然自己並不太喜歡樂團主腦Howe Gelb那種過份沙礫和粗曠的歌曲演繹方式，但基於一份對荒漠情感的喜愛，在當日仍有一份將Giant Sand黑膠唱片收藏在家裡的衝動。先前說到八十年代的美國，當時我們有機會受到她的所謂「新音樂文藝復興」的洗禮，如果Giant Sand是這浪潮的第二波組合的話，那麼，它的第一波組合又包括了那些名字呢？他們就是：Rain Parade，Dream Syndicate，The Long Ryders，The 3 O'Clock，Violent Femmes，R.E.M.，Los LoBos等等。重溫以上的這些名字，總就勾起了當年很多自己的往事，當中包括了一些所謂音樂人的聽歌態度與口味，自己的不自量力與衝動，還有是那份愚昧......借此讓我將這一段有趣 (?) 史實展現出來，作為是對聆聽「另類音樂」一個方向性選擇引證也好；一份對「想當年」的謬論也好，但總就希望能呼喚大家對所喜愛的音樂，以更認真、開懷的態度去接受更多、聆聽更多。現在先來一個時光倒流。


Biography by Robert Hicks
Calexico, a Tucson collective of musicians focused around Joey Burns and John Convertino, forged an eclectic identity through their exploration of Southwestern culture. Composer Ennio Morricone's spaghetti Westerns as well as Portuguese fado; Afro-Peruvian music; and '50s and '60s jazz, country, and surf music all factored into Calexico's music.

Burns studied classical music at the University of California-Irvine before starting his rock career. Calexico formed after Burns met John Convertino in Los Angeles in 1990. At the time, Convertino was playing with Howe Gelb's experimental rock group Giant Sand. Burns joined the group as their upright bassist for a European tour. Burns and Convertino found their voice as a duo during a break from work with Giant Sand. They moved to Tucson in 1994 and began collecting instruments from the Chicago Store in Tucson. First, they worked with Tucson's neo-lounge combo Friends of Dean Martinez. They started to play marimba, cello, accordion, and vibraphone in addition to their usual work on bass, guitar, and drums. After a split with Friends of Dean Martinez founder Bill Elm in 1996, the duo began to get session work with Barbara Manning, Richard Buckner, Victoria Williams, Michael Hurley, Bill Janovitz, Vic Chesnutt, and with Lisa Germano (as the trio OP8). Burns & Convertino experimented on their own with their new instruments in a home recording studio in 1996, releasing their debut CD, Spoke, on Germany's Haus Musik Records. After signing with Quarterstick/Touch and Go Records in Chicago, they released The Black Light in 1998 and The Hot Rail in 2000.

For their 2001 EP, Even My Sure Things Fall Through, Calexico enlisted the support of longtime members Martin Wenk, Volker Zander, and Jacob Valenzuela, as well as members of Mariachi Luz de Luna. The song "The Crystal Frontier" was inspired by Carlos Fuentes' novel and the Cumbia rhythms of Mexico. "Sonic Wind" was a remixed instrumental version of a song originally on The Hot Rail, featuring Valenzuela's trumpet solo. "Untitled III" was a remake of a song by the electronica group Twoloneswordsmen. "Chanel No. 5" was a cover of an American Music Club song. "Banderilla" was a reworking of an outtake from The Hot Rail. Session work with Richard Buckner and the Louvin Brothers' song "Knoxville Girl" inspired "Crooked Road and the Briar." And "Hard Hat" was an ambient version of the song from The Hot Rail.

Even My Sure Things Fall Through (Quarterstick), in effect, was a collection of outtakes from the group's 2000 CD release, The Hot Rail, as well as B-sides, remixes, and previously unreleased material from their European label, City Slang. In 2003, the band issued their most cohesive material to date with Feast of Wire. An EP of covers, Convict Pool, followed a year later.

laoxiaoUID: 110496

哦，好久不见，一向可好？

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同上

^^

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i am very bad now

laoxiaoUID: 110496

:eek::eek:是么？都不知道说什么好。

这些天在听 《滚石香港黄金十年系列》

送一首 李宗盛精选 里的歌给你好了，取歌名之意，遇事尽量往开里想。:D


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[ Last edited by laoxiao on 2005-6-23 at 00:31 ]

futurewirlUID: 153522

thx. how are u? finished your phd?

laoxiaoUID: 110496

我啊，还不错啊。呵呵，我不读phd的....

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???? 工作吗？要是硕士，应该毕业了。