Alejandro Escovedo - Boxing Mirror
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Artist: Alejandro EscovedoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-05-02
Music Label: Back Porch
Soundtracks:
- Arizona
- Dear Head On The Wall
- Notes On Air
- Looking For Love
- The Ladder
- Break This Time
- Evita's Lullaby
- Sacramento & Polk
- Died A Little Today
- Take Your Place
- The Boxing Mirror
- One True Love
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Music Review: Boxing clever
Rating: 4 Stars
Alejandro Escovedo is a phenomenal talent, one whose musical outpourings feel so deep, so real, and so thrillingly alive that they connect with this particular listener on an almost spiritual level. Whether delivering hard edged, gritty rock songs or elegant acoustic folk-pop, the Austin-based singer-songwriter never ceases to amaze me.
Having survived a near fatal bout of Hepatitis C in 2003, the once hard-living Escovedo was forced to give up the bottle and the smokes, and so it comes as little surprise to find that much of his latest album is about staring down his demons and confronting his own mortality. It may be heavy-going at times, but The Boxing Mirror also achieves staggering levels of depth, beauty and emotional honesty. Remarkable really, given that Escovedo wondered if he'd ever make music again.
On the moody, gripping album opener `Arizona' Escovedo sings like a man possessed, lost in his own thoughts and facing up to a life of sobriety. Right from the outset, it's hugely compelling stuff - complex, weighty and riveting. `Dear Head On The Wall' and `Notes On Air' follow-on in a similar vein and provide two more of the album's highlights. By some margin though, The Boxing Mirror's standout cut is the heartbreaking Evita's Lullaby, which finds Alejandro consoling his mother after the death of his father. A song coloured by deep sorrow, it is almost unbearably beautiful.
As good a record as this is, I'm reluctant to say that it's Escovedo's greatest artistic achievement to date. As far as career highlights go, 2001's masterful A Man Under The Influence will take some beating. The Boxing Mirror though, without a doubt, is his most rocking and intense set of songs to date. Proof positive that Alejandro Escovedo the musician is still well and truly alive and kicking.
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All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Alejandro Agonistes may yet have a happy ending, but you wouldn't guess it from this torrent of surrealism and gothic textures. Escovedo's first album since nearly succumbing to hepatitis C and crushing debt in 2003 is the darkest, most mysterious album of his career--a harrowing, poetic soundscape partly the result of producer John Cale's industrial-noir sensibilities, but also Escovedo's own avant-garde punk roots. The difficult trilogy which opens the album moves from arid Arizona (a wasteland where the soul finds nary a drop to drink) to a conversation with a "dear head on the wall" that becomes a negative Zen poem ("The sadness will come / When there is no one") to a cryptic vision of a buck trampling a wandering doe. Writing with his wife, poet Kim Christoff, as well as Chris Stamey and guitarist Jon Dee Graham, Escovedo isn't just confronting his own mortality and the mistakes which plunged him into a nightmare. He's courting a danse macabre for the sounds and poetry he finds there. On "Sacramento and Polk" he surveys a bohemian hell through a "Thorazine haze," while the Princely groove of "Take Your Place" only seems like a discordant funk party until the lyrics sink in: "I'm going down, down, down / There's nothing here." Escovedo's voice has weathered the physical ravages, caressing all the Mexican nuances out of the synth- and cello-sweetened "Evita's Lullaby" and breaking beautifully on the country ballad "Died a Little Today," which, like each of these emotionally concentrated tracks, is as literal as it is elusive. --Roy Kasten
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