John Cale: Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood
Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Label: Domino, 2012
- Bestellnummer: 3024583
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.9.2012
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Im März diesen Jahres feierte John Cale seinen 70. Geburtstag. Seit über 50 Jahren ist er als Musiker aktiv. Ganze sieben Jahre sind seit seinem letzten Studio-Album vergangen. Im letzten Jahr unterzeichnete Cale dann bei Domino Records und veröffentlichte die "Extra Playful EP". Beim Zählen seiner Platten, die er als Produzent und Solo-Künstler heraus gebracht hat, kann man schnell durcheinander kommen.
Nun fügt er seinem umfangreichen Oevre ein weiteres Schmuckstück hinzu, das Album "Shifty Adventures In The Nookie Wood". Die Platte wurde komplett in Cales Studio in LA aufgenommen. Dabei gab es keinen straffen Masterplan. Das Studio glich eher einem Experimentierfeld. Während man also mit Samplern, Klavier, Violine und Drone-Sounds herumprobierte, schälten sich irgendwann Songs heraus. Aus einer spontanen Session mit Danger Mouse entstand so z. B. der wunderschöne Album-Opener "I Wanna Talk 2 U".
Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood is a title to set tongues wagging and minds wondering, but for an album that seems born of a return to John’s youth it seems safely apt in its mischievousness.
After nearly 50 years of making music it’s still freshly evident that Cale draws from a make believe world first imagined by his young self. Track title ‘Mothra’ pays homage to the Japanese monster from Godzilla movies. As a boy practicing scales in grey skied Welsh valleys such fantastical flights of fancy must have been reassuring of the path that was potentially about to unfold for him. Lyrics reveal even more explicitly earlier incarnations of Cale and in the same song we relive an encounter with a local bully,
"You see me running, you see me climb, reading my books and always trying, laughing and teasing and I love to play, dreaming my dreams are never far away".
Elsewhere Cale’s doing what he does best, guiding listeners through the places, politics, and people of the day. A wide range of human experience is reflected and often it’s for the listener to dig deeper to find what’s being documented. Sometimes however part of the tapestry is pulled soberingly into focus; when listening to ‘Scotland Yard’ while the Leveson enquiry plays out, it’s all too easy to recognize the guilty.
As a producer Cale has reached a new plateau on this record. At the albums most maximal, it feels like looking at a collection of precious stones. Myriads of differently coloured and textured surfaces carefully placed together, each finding their own space to beckon the ear. It’s a blend of chaos and beauty in equal measure and a testament to the exploratory spirit at work, which ensures that as always, there's something new to the ears here.
(dominorecordco. com)
,,Einen weiteren Entwicklungsschritt in einer beeindruckenden Karriere, das sieht die Plattenfirma in John Cales neuem Album." (Good Times, Oktober / November 2012)
,,... Cale tut auch, was man von ihm als Pop-Avantgardist erwartet: Er trommelt mit den Fäusten aufs Klavier, lässt Bässe am Computer rückwärts laufen und streicht die Elektrobratsche." (musikexpress, Oktober 2012)
,,Mit dieser Platte kann die ewig uneinige Cale-Klientel sehr gut klarkommen." (Rolling Stone, Oktober 2012)
Nun fügt er seinem umfangreichen Oevre ein weiteres Schmuckstück hinzu, das Album "Shifty Adventures In The Nookie Wood". Die Platte wurde komplett in Cales Studio in LA aufgenommen. Dabei gab es keinen straffen Masterplan. Das Studio glich eher einem Experimentierfeld. Während man also mit Samplern, Klavier, Violine und Drone-Sounds herumprobierte, schälten sich irgendwann Songs heraus. Aus einer spontanen Session mit Danger Mouse entstand so z. B. der wunderschöne Album-Opener "I Wanna Talk 2 U".
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Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood is a title to set tongues wagging and minds wondering, but for an album that seems born of a return to John’s youth it seems safely apt in its mischievousness.
After nearly 50 years of making music it’s still freshly evident that Cale draws from a make believe world first imagined by his young self. Track title ‘Mothra’ pays homage to the Japanese monster from Godzilla movies. As a boy practicing scales in grey skied Welsh valleys such fantastical flights of fancy must have been reassuring of the path that was potentially about to unfold for him. Lyrics reveal even more explicitly earlier incarnations of Cale and in the same song we relive an encounter with a local bully,
"You see me running, you see me climb, reading my books and always trying, laughing and teasing and I love to play, dreaming my dreams are never far away".
Elsewhere Cale’s doing what he does best, guiding listeners through the places, politics, and people of the day. A wide range of human experience is reflected and often it’s for the listener to dig deeper to find what’s being documented. Sometimes however part of the tapestry is pulled soberingly into focus; when listening to ‘Scotland Yard’ while the Leveson enquiry plays out, it’s all too easy to recognize the guilty.
As a producer Cale has reached a new plateau on this record. At the albums most maximal, it feels like looking at a collection of precious stones. Myriads of differently coloured and textured surfaces carefully placed together, each finding their own space to beckon the ear. It’s a blend of chaos and beauty in equal measure and a testament to the exploratory spirit at work, which ensures that as always, there's something new to the ears here.
(dominorecordco. com)
Rezensionen
,,Einen weiteren Entwicklungsschritt in einer beeindruckenden Karriere, das sieht die Plattenfirma in John Cales neuem Album." (Good Times, Oktober / November 2012)
,,... Cale tut auch, was man von ihm als Pop-Avantgardist erwartet: Er trommelt mit den Fäusten aufs Klavier, lässt Bässe am Computer rückwärts laufen und streicht die Elektrobratsche." (musikexpress, Oktober 2012)
,,Mit dieser Platte kann die ewig uneinige Cale-Klientel sehr gut klarkommen." (Rolling Stone, Oktober 2012)
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 I wanna talk 2 u
- 2 Scotland yard
- 3 Hemingway
- 4 Face to the sky
- 5 Nookie wood
- 6 December rains
- 7 Mary
- 8 Vampire cafe
- 9 Mothra
- 10 Living with you
- 11 Midnight feast
- 12 Sandman (Flying dutchmawn)
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