Mark Ward - Little Lights EP

歌手名称：Mark Ward
专辑名称：Little Lights EP
发行日期：2008
风格类型：Folk Rock/Acoustic/Indie
视听主页：www.myspace.com/markwardmusic

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专辑曲目：

1. Fighting With Lightning
2. Little Lights
3. You Are Light
4. Meant The Most

Arisa - Sincerità

歌手名称：Arisa
专辑名称：Sincerità
发行日期：2009
风格类型：Pop
视听主页：www.myspace.com/arisafanmyspace

来自意大利罗马的女歌手Arisa今年只有26岁...

Vince Sanremo 2009 (Nuove Proposte) Arisa Sanremo 2009, la vincitrice del Festival è stata ufficializzata: vince Arisa. Ecco una breve bio della cantante di “Sincerità”, brano commerciale molto bello e semplice, così come il suo album omonimo uscito proprio oggi. Arisa ha 26 anni ed è un personaggio straordinario, oltre che una cantante empatica e qualitativamente....

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专辑曲目：

01. Sincerità
02. Io sono
03. La mia strana verità
04. Abbi cura di te
05. Pensa così
06. Piccola rosa
07. Te lo volevo dire
08. Com'è facile
09. L'uomo che non c'è
10. Buona notte

Waldsonne - Wanderer

乐队名称：Waldsonne
专辑名称：Wanderer
公司厂牌：Label: R.A.I.G.
风格类型：Neo-Folk/Ambient/Acoustic
发行日期：2008.10.08
视听主页：www.myspace.com/waldsonne
官方网站：http://waldsonne.woods.ru

个人点评

莫斯科厂牌R.A.I.G.于2008年10月8日发行的Wanderer [专辑名称翻译为“旅行者，流浪者”]

这张专辑主要已透过季节的转变感受人世间的冷暖，俄罗斯的春天，天气是变化无常的，多变的......

Waldsonne是一支二男二女新民乐队，三年的积累还是蛮值得听听的
本人尤其欣赏其乐队对新专曲目上的编排，成员的才华都得到了很好的体现人声和纯音乐基本是五五开，并不是女主唱的独角戏，我喜欢有团队精神的乐队，如果乐队想长期一起合作......

乐队成员：

Veronika - vocal
Iliya - guitar, mandolin
Peter - guitar
Anna-Noel - violin

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Three years after their self-released EP Stahl, Neutral spin-off band Waldsonne return with their debut offering. The band consists of four members of Neutral, the main difference here being the inclusion of female vocals fronting the ensemble. As is standard fare for neofolk a lot of the songs are about trees, nature and the usual Mother Earth themes, the artwork confirming this with lots of pictures of twigs and bracken to make sure you’ve got the message.

Actually it’s the same picture used three times: slightly unusual since you’d hardly think there was a shortage of bleak and dismal scenery in Russia. The Russian bands have been utilising this concept for years, it seems to sell well over on the more verdant areas of the urbane world.

It’s not like Waldsonne are enjoying the barrenness of the perpetual Winters though. Much of the subject matter of the album rotates around the need for bright weather and lush nature in stark contrast to the photography in the booklet. Maybe they’ve had enough of the whole place and rather than upping sticks and trekking West have decided to stay in Russia and plays songs about it instead. And I can’t say I don’t sympathise. As much as I love the romanticism of desolate climes it must get slightly depressing, especially when the rouble’s sinking along with the rest of the world economy and vodka indulgence is getting more expensive. Time to stock up on potatoes and get back to the home gin brewing - and you can even power clocks with the leftovers. Ingenious.

Wanderer is therefore quite a cathartic work. Its music and melodies, though not wildly original, will certainly appeal to many fans of neofolk, being traditional and accomplished for the most part. The guitar and mandolin passages are well-written and excellently played, so instrumentally at least, Waldsonne get off to a good start. The vocals are introduced in the second track Pain of Senses, provided by Veronika Martynova, but though they’re certainly not bad they lack a particular sheen and lustre. Monika is note perfect most of the time but there’s little conviction in her voice as she seems to sing a lot of the songs by numbers, vocally connecting the dots rather than feeling the music. Her lyrics are mostly in English and they’re often quite basic [calling the sun/where are you/come, come, come] but it’s the German numbers which she seems to go out of tune in, presumably because she’s having to concentrate more on the language.

Where the album generally shines is therefore the pure instrumental passages and some of these are quite strong such as the captivating Sand and Longing for Mistery[sic]. But though the harp, guitars and mandolins are all played with distinction, the violin suffers in the quieter sections. Anna-Noel Buzuk is capable of producing channelled, strong cadences in the louder segments but her violin screeches painfully through the softer parts. What’s worse still is the pipe-playing which is sometimes dreadfully off-key. This, in particular, really lets the album down and more than once an emotional musical fragment is spoiled by an out-of-place or flat instrument.

When Wanderer succeeds – which is more often than not – it’s a pleasurable and elevating experience. However, shoddy playing in some parts doesn’t make the listener feel relaxed in the hands of neofolk masters and by halfway through the album you’re left wandering whether the beauteous section you’re currently listening to is going to be ruined by an erratic bow or overenthusiastic piper. As a whole, listening to the album feels like completing a rally in an r-reg Vauxhall Astra: you’d still make it round the circuit but it could be done a lot better. What Wanderer shows more positively is a serious band with the competence to go much further with the second record. If the creases can be ironed out they could put out an excellent offering, though their debut suffers from one too many flaws to hold such an accolade.

专辑曲目：

01 Eternal Motion
02 Pain of Senses
03 Over the Earth
04 Sand
05 Leiben eines Mannes (Life of a Man)
06 Longing for Mistery [sic]
07 Call for the Sun
08 Village Revelry
09 Durch den Nebel (Through the Mist)
10 Autumn Fair
11 песнaя песня (Woodland Song)

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