Marianne Faithfull - Horses & High Heels
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Artist: Marianne FaithfullEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2011-06-28
Music Label: Naive
Soundtracks:
- The Stations
- Why did we have to part
- That's how every empire falls
- No reason
- Prussian blue
- Love song
- Gee baby
- Goin' back
- Past, present and future
- Horses and high heels
- Back in baby's arms
- Eternity
- The Old House
Music reviews of Horses & High Heels
Music Review: Horses & High Heels: Past. Present, and Future
Rating: 5 Stars
Marianne's new set of tunes give her fans more than fifty minutes of great music. That's thirteen songs with her one of a kind voice, four original compositions. Recorded in New Orleans, the musicians backing her render their instruments to lap against her vocals, sometimes a caress, then a wave to a new direction mid song. Its the delivery that gets you. The lady believes in her art and those around her do too.
Horses and High Heels carries on with the literary and the rumination, the punk and the folk, and the various genres that Marianne has dipped into from the sixties folk to the seventies re-emergence as punk diva and onward. Initial listens convey a pondering on life's lessons and mortality (tracks one through three, five, six, and tracks eight through thirteen). Music of other eras quickly come to mind, No Reason is an early seventies stadium rocker's romp, Love Song conveys Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon era. Past, Present, and Future and Goin' Back are remarkable readings as you consider the singer's current place in time, a child of the sixties generation, now in her sixties and realizing these pop rhapsodies in much the same way she re-interpreted As Tears Go By on Stange Weather.
The Stations leans to biblical themes. Eternity is Marianne's uptempo view of the next chapter with the sampling from Brian Jones Presents: The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka a masterful addition to the song.
The Old House and title song Horses and High Heels are rich with phrasing that evokes ghosts and foggy nights.
Songs from the CD are reminiscent of Morning Come and Ireland from A Child's Adventure and of A Secret Life. This listener is looking forward to many repeated listenings of all these tunes, full of layers that will emerge with each listen. Marianne recorded As Tears Go By in sixty four. She is even more vital as she gives us another thirteen at the age of sixty four.
Description of Horses & High Heels
'I don't really do conventional...' Recorded in New Orleans with a core of exceptional local musicians, the album features eight cover versions and four original new songs co-written by Marianne, four songs which feature the virtuoso guitar playing of John Porter, a musician/producer friend most noted for his work with Roxy Music, Eric Clapton and The Smiths. The album also includes one song with lyrics specially written for her by Irish playwright Frank McGuiness (the evocative 'The Old House'), two cameo appearances on guitar from another old friend, Lou Reed, plus further cameos from Dr. John and MC5's Wayne Kramer. It's all exquisitely produced by long-term collaborator Hal Willner, the soundscape alchemist behind the critically-lauded 'Easy Come, Easy Go' (2009), her astonishing collection of covers and duets featuring more of the kind of people Marianne calls friends, from Keith Richards and Jarvis Cocker to Rufus Wainwright and Nick Cave. There's the brooding, spectral guitar-rock of Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan's 'The Stations', the swooning, country-rock tinge of R.B Morris' 'That's How Every Empire Falls' and the bar-room blues and 70s soul revue thrills of Jackie Lomax's 'No Reason'. 'We chose some soul material this time which I was very unsure of at first,' muses Marianne. 'No Reason', 'Back In Baby's Arms', 'Gee Baby', these songs are more vocally demanding and it was quite frightening. But I think we managed it.' Elsewhere are glimmering 70s soul classics, from the gorgeous, steel-guitar-layered 'Love Song' (originally written by 70s song-writer Lesley Duncan and made famous by Elton John), the bewitching piano reverie of Carol King's 'Goin' Back' (definitively recorded in '66 by Dusty Springfield) and her positively Shakespearian rendition of the Shangri-Las masterpiece, 'Past Present and Future'. Her four original new songs are a revelation: the folky and unfeasibly rousing 'Why Did We Have To Part?', an elegy to the end of a long relationship 'I just couldn't resist a break-up song - and the pain is over', to the rollicking, Hammond swirl of 'Prussian Blue' (a paean to her life in Paris), the rhythmically compelling, Celtic-folk-tinged 'Horses And High Heels' and the joyous 'Eternity' featuring a sampled Arabian-jazz flourish from Brian Jones' recording in Morocco with the Master Musicians of Jajouka (1968's 'Brian Jones Presents: The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka'). 'It's all a very different style for me,' notes Marianne, 'much more rhythmic. And a very modern record, it's not looking back to the past at all. All the songs are about now, you know?' Marianne is, they say, the Godmother of Goth, both doomed romantic and ultimate bohemian survivor. A teenage pop star, rock star's girlfriend and iconic beauty in the 1960s.Pop CDs
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