Tom Waits - Alice
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Artist: Tom WaitsBrand: WAITS,TOM
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-05-07
Music Label: Anti
Soundtracks:
- Alice
- Everything You Can Think
- Flowers Grave
- No One Knows I'm Gone
- Kommienezuepadt
- Poor Edward
- Table Top Joe
- Lost In The Harbor
- We're All Mad Here
- Watch Her Disappear
- Reeperbahn
- I'm Still Here
- Fish & Bird
- Barcarolle
- Fawn
Music reviews of Alice
Music Review: Arithmetic, Arithmetock
Rating: 5 Stars
This may be my favorite Tom Waits album. My understanding is that the insinuations about Lewis Carroll and the underage girl are unproven, but Waits takes the obesssion and runs with it (it's not about sex, it's about obsession). The title song (oh, that sax!) features one of my favorite Waits lyrics: "But I must be insane/to go skating on your name/and by tracing it twice/I fell through the ice/of Alice." I tend to think that's the narrative beginning, and the ending is I'm Still Here, where the girl is older and the flame has died down.
You can't read the "plot" literally, and there are also songs about Carroll's art, such as Everything You Can Think and Kommienezuspat. The whole thing is quiet, sad, dark and beautiful.
Description of Alice
Alice has been called Wait's long-lost masterpiece. Originally performed as an opera directed by Robert Wilson for Hamburg's Thalia Theatre in 1992, but left unrecorded until 2001. The show ran for a year and a half using an unusual orchestra designed by Waits to underpin the songs co-written with his wife Kathleen Brennen. Rather than being directly based on Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, the Waits-Brennen Alice takes inspiration from feelings remembered and dreams recalled after reading the books. Released simultaneously with Blood Money.The grizzled modern persona of Tom Waits finds new life on Alice, a slow, grave record that explores physical and moral decay with the same harrowing insight of 1992's Bone Machine. Originally written as an opera with his longtime songwriting partner, playwright Kathleen Brennan, the songs on Alice were performed live in a Hamburg theater for 18 months in 1992 and 1993, but were never committed to tape (officially, at least). This studio recording retains a sense of narrative cohesion, giving Waits a set of tormented and bizarre characters that go well with the motley crew he's assembled over the years. It is, in fact, the most consistent record of Waits's career, offering not only a stable train of thought, but a musical approach that, while featuring the same vaudevillian touches that have characterized his work since Swordfishtrombones, finds a voice all its own. Without much percussion to back them up, violins, cellos, and horns dominate the record, bathing Waits's familiar growl in a sly, slow cacophony that sounds like an underwater fugue, the notes like rust on the strings. "Watch Her Disappear," with its sparse, sad pump organ, and the twisted torch song "Reeperbahn" have the smoky caf? mystery of Edith Piaf by way of Leonard Cohen, recovered from the water-logged tapes in Cole Porter's long-lost dingy. It's a burst of dark, world-weary poetry for lonely Saturday nights, cloudy days on the beach, or long strolls through graveyards. --Matthew Cooke
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