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| Passing Train [ ÉLŐ ] |
| Joel Harrison |
| első megjelenés éve: 2008 |
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| (2008)
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CD |
| 6.321 Ft
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| 1. | The Wishing Well
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| 2. | Passing Train
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| 3. | Northwest Jewel
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| 4. | Glory Days Are Gone
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| 5. | Ship Sailing Cross a Mountain
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| 6. | Travel On
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| 7. | No One Knows How to Die
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| 8. | Midnight
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| 9. | God Loves a Loser
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| 10. | Regret
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| 11. | Just For the Ride
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| 12. | Wash Away
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Jazz
Passing Train is a surprisingly confident debut by an old-timer who is constantly discovering new dimensions. Harrison uses his entire creative experience as a jazz guitarist like a magician who has managed to escape from the box that he had previously maneuvered himself into. If ever there was a jazz musician able to take absolute liberties for himself, then it is Joel Harrison with his coming-out as a singer-songwriter.
Joel Harrison is a jazz guitarist. Joel Harrison is not a jazz guitarist. Joel Harrison is a country music switch hitter. Joel Harrison is not a country music switch hitter. Joel Harrison is a classical composer. Joel Harrison is not a classical composer. Joel Harrison is a singer-songwriter. Joel Harrison is not a singer-songwriter. All of these statements are true, and in any given combination make sense. Joel Harrison is a guitarist, composer, and most recently also a singer whose activities cover a broad spectrum. It is immensely exciting to explore the gigantic spectrum of varying styles and to trace them back to their collective source and find the derivation of Joel Harrison's personality. In doing so Harrison is much too modest to pose as ruler of a musical galaxy. He conveys his versatility in an amazingly simple phrase: "Not having a center is my center. It's not easy to be me. I almost laugh when I think about it."
With Passing Train Harrison will more than likely find music lovers who previously would not lend their ears to his music. A wanderer between traditions, Harrison started out as a jazz musician eager to listen to rock and non-American music. During the nineties he was an exponent of Californian avant-garde jazz. Among others he worked with musicians such as Nels Cline, John Schott and Scott Amendola. He had just established himself as a jazz guitarist in the Bay Area before moving to New York in 1999, where he established completely new coordinates in Free Country. At that time it was not customary for jazz musicians to seek out and close ranks with the folk and country music scene. But the determination with which Harrison overrode all conventions was met with speechlessness at that time. In Harrison on Harrison he extemporized on songs by his famous namesake from the Beatles, thus opening a completely different outlet with his affinity for good songs.
In the song "Glory Days", Harrison also delivers a timeless contribution on a fundamental conflict in present-day America. With its hymnlike insistency the piece is reminiscent of Steve Earles provocative antiwar song John Walker's Blues. Yet Harrison's sensitivity when handling this -particularly in America- very multilayered theme of "war and peace" is hard to top. "Instead of using the whole antiwar rhetoric, I wanted to tell the story of somebody who was just simply there. It didn't even have to be the war in Iraq, it could also be any other war. I was concerned with the inner devastation experienced in the soul of somebody at war. For me it is about a soldier who feels betrayed, and has to live with the certainty that his honor has been stolen."
Harrison worked on Passing Train for six years. Yet despite all complexities, Harrison manages to make each song sound simple. Good songs sometimes have to ripen, like good wine, to develop their bouquet fully. |
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