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Mit seinem zweiten, 1974 veröffentlichten Album "Heart Of Saturday Night" erarbeitete sich Tom Waits den
Ruf eines versierten und vielseitigen Songwriters. Seine bluesigen und gerne ins jazzige driftenden
Arrangements basierten meist auf dem Einsatz von Bass, Schlagzeug, Saxofon und natürlich Klavier.
Maßgeblich an den Aufnahmen beteiligt war der Produzent Bones Howe, den David Geffen, Chef von Asylum
Records, vermittelt hatte. Howe hatte in seiner Karriere schon für so unterschiedliche Künstler wie Elvis
Presley, Ornette Coleman und Frank Sinatra gearbeitet. Wie Howe kamen auch die Studiomusiker aus den
weiten Gefilden zwischen Pop und Jazz, was die Produktion eindeutig in die von Waits gewünschte Richtung
führte. Die entsprach allerdings noch weniger als das Debütwerk "Closing Time" (1973) dem damaligen
Mainstream. Allerdings führt der "Rolling Stone" die Platte heute in der Liste der "500 besten Alben aller
Zeiten" auf Platz 339. Nach der Veröffentlichung von "Heart Of Saturday Night" ging Waits - auf Betreiben
seines Managers Herb Cohen - mit Frank Zappa auf Tour. Widerwillig. Die Reaktionen des Publikums waren
mäßig, doch Waits hatte Zappa auf seiner Seite, was ihm unter Kollegen ziemliches Renommee verschaffte.

Das nächste Kapitel von Danny Kiranos, a/k/a Amigo the Devil, wird mit Yours Until the War is Over fortgesetzt – seinem bislang entwaffnendsten und einzigartigsten Werk. Das 13-Track-Projekt verbindet Themen der nachvollziehbaren Selbstzerstörung und Traumabindung mit fesselnder Authentizität. Gespickt mit obskuren literarischen Anspielungen – ähnlich der wahnsinnigen Lesegewohnheit von Kiranos – beweist das Album, dass diese ganze Amigo the Devil-Sache keine True-Crime-Nische ist. Yours Until the War is Over ist eine Songwriter-Platte, die erfolgreich Tom Waits huldigt.

Tini Trampler & Playbackdolls senden genre-transzendente, deutschsprachige Chansons aus der utopischen Zukunft als kosmopolitische Folklore ins Jetzt!

Tini Trampler & Playbackdolls sind bekannt für ihre lebensfrohen, tanzbaren & politischen Lieder, die mit Herz, Empathie und Phantasie zu geistigen Rebellionen führen. Ihre 'Chansons 2084' sind Liebesbriefe aus einer utopischen Zukunft an die Gegenwart im poetischen, deutschsprachigen Wortgewand à la Hildegard Knef und Marlene Dietrich. Vaudeville kulminiert mit wienerischem Blues, Folklore, Rumpelrock à la Tom Waits, Ragtime und Reggae zu hochemotionalen und tanzbaren Chansons.

Over the past decade, the visionary musician Arthur Russell has entered something close to the mainstream.



Sampled and referenced by contemporary musicians, his papers now open to visitors at the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center in New York, and his name synonymous with a certain strain of tenderness, Russell is as widely known as he's ever been. Thanks to Russell's partner Tom Lee and to Steve Knutson of Audika Records, who have forged several records from Russell's vast archive of unfinished and unreleased work, the world now hears many versions of Arthur Russell.There's the Iowa boy, the disco mystic, the singer-songwriter and composer, and the fierce perfectionist deep in a world of echo. While all of these elements of Russell are individually true, none alone define him.



Now, after ten years of work inside the Russell library, Lee and Knutson bring us Iowa Dream, yet another bright star in Russell's dazzling constellation.Blazing with trademark feeling, these nineteen songs are a staggering collection of Russell's utterly distinct songwriting. And although Russell could be inscrutably single-minded, he was never totally solitary. Collaborating here is a stacked roster of downtown New York musicians, including Ernie Brooks, Rhys Chatham, Henry Flynt, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon, Steven Hall, Jackson Mac Low, Larry Saltzman, and David Van Tieghem.Musician Peter Broderick makes a contemporary addition to this list: more than forty years after Russell recorded several nearly finished songs, Broderick worked diligently with Audika to complete them, and performed audio restoration and additional mixing.



Several tracks on Iowa Dream were originally recorded as demos, in two early examples of Russell's repeated brushes with potential popular success—first in 1974, with Paul Nelson of Mercury Records, and then in 1975, with the legendary John Hammond of Columbia Records.For different reasons, neither session amounted to a record deal.Russell kept working nearly up until his death in 1992 from complications of HIV-AIDS.



At once kaleidoscopic and intimate, Iowa Dream bears some of Russell's most personal work, including several recently discovered folk songs he wrote during his time in Northern California in the early 1970s.For Russell, Iowa was never very far away. 'I see, I see it all,' sings Russell on the title track: red houses, fields, the town mayor (his father) streaming by as he dream-bicycles through his hometown.Russell's childhood home and family echo, too, through 'Just Regular People,' 'I Wish I Had a Brother,' 'Wonder Boy,' 'The Dogs Outside are Barking,' 'Sharper Eyes,' and 'I Felt.'Meanwhile, songs like 'I Kissed the Girl From Outer Space,' 'I Still Love You,' 'List of Boys,' and 'Barefoot in New York' fizz with pop and dance grooves, gesturing at Russell's devotion to New York's avant-garde and disco scenes.Finally, the long-awaited 'You Did it Yourself,' until now heard only in a brief heart-stopping black-and-white clip in Matt Wolf's documentary Wild Combination, awards us a new take with a driving funk rhythm and Russell's extraordinary voice soaring at the height of its powers.On Iowa Dream, you can hear a country kid meeting the rest of the world—and with this record, the world continues to meet a totally singular artist.