Описание
Bob Dylan- FALLEN ANGELS- CD- 2016-
- Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment- 889853080229- 400 grn
FALLEN ANGELS is the thirty-seventh studio album by Bob Dylan, released by Columbia Records on 20th May 2016. The album consists of cover versions of twelve classic American songs chosen by Dylan from a diverse array of writers such as Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Sammy Cahn, and Carolyn Leigh. Much like the album's predecessor, Shadows In The Night, every song on the album, except for "Skylark", was once recorded by Frank Sinatra. The album received generally favorable reviews, with particular praise for Dylan's vocal performance, production quality, and the arrangements of his band. FALLEN ANGELS may have been recorded at the same session as 2015's moody Shadows In The Night, but its tone is very different. They're both tributes to Frank Sinatra, but the 2016 album is light at heart. It's filled with songs of love, not heartbreak, and Dylan's band plays the numbers as sweet shuffles that function as a counterpart to the gloomy saloon tunes that filled Shadows In The Night. Another distinction of FALLEN ANGELS is that, unlike its cousin, some of the featured songs are quite common and help draw attention to Dylan's interpretations. He pushes these songs into the realm of a dusty roadhouse, letting "That Old Black Magic" skip along to a swift danceable beat, turning "Polka Dots And Moonbeams" into a country ramble, playing "Melancholy Mood" as an after-hours blues. These wise, wily interpretations underscore Dylan's ultimate aim with these Sinatra records, which is to slyly tie together various strands of American music, bringing Tin Pan Alley to the barrooms and taking the backwoods uptown. An idiosyncratic, romantic vision of 20th century America.
PERSONNEL: Bob Dylan – vocals; Stu Kimball, Dean Parks, Charlie Sexton – guitar; Donnie Herron – steel guitar, viola; Tony Garnier – bass guitar; George Receli – drums; James Harper - conductor, horn arrangements.
You can go all the way back to the beginning of “What the fuck is Bob Dylan doing now?” and find jazz. Some of the initial shock was the result of the growing stigma around the aging-rocker-does-the-American-songbook format, not the fact that Dylan would offer his own version. As he himself acknowledged in his labyrinthine MusiCares acceptance speech, this sort of record has become a convention - a profitable one. FALLEN ANGELS don’t bear much resemblance to the market standard. The arrangements recall a time and place that never existed - a mythical dive halfway between a resurrected smoky East Village club and, when drooping pedal steel figures dominate the action, a Texas barroom. When creaky cellos and horn soloists crop up, Tom Waits’ more muted '00s output comes to mind. But this atmosphere sounds like a byproduct and it doesn’t come over as carefully cultivated. The languid pacing often improves matters. The axioms in the songs on FALLEN ANGELS were written to speak to various familiar moments of the human experience. With Dylan, though, the universal “truth” in these compositions doesn’t reflect easily, or even deliberately uneasily, back on him. In his muse Sinatra’s case, of course, such truth came easy. The singer was at the bar until last call in both the tabloids and on his albums. FALLEN ANGELS is the product of a life ritual no one can fathom, but which is doubtless way more typical than one might think, perennially modest, worth a faithful fan’s money.
Comes In A Standard Jewel Case With Black Tray And Hype Sticker On Front And Includes Foldout Inlay.
Made In The EU.
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