Sometimes one artistic performance or, in this case, one record have more impact in all of us – simple mortals – than other artists ten albums'.
The album is "Grace" from '94, produced by Andy Wallace and the singer and composer is the great Jeff Buckley.
Tanks to Columbia/Sony, for making – in 2004 - such a exquisite re-edition, a Legacy Edition, btw, digital remastered from the original tapes, plus two more pearls: a second cd with rare songs never published before and a dvd with studio material, concert clips and some interviews.
Jeff Buckley's music is not easy to catalogue; not even to digest such is the sublime irritability of his songs; where distortion and noise lived side by side, sometimes in the cutting edge of what we can possible bare, with pure and intimate beauty.
His creative artistic imagination is tremendously paradigmatic and original. From intimate songs with only an acoustic guitar and voice to a barrage of guitar distortions; from tremendous and poetic string arrangements to lyric falsetto screams, whispers, howls and even noises; from choir boy angelical sweet voices to hidden influences from the great Robert Plant, his voice signature is smashing.
If the words can make any sense, the true emotion of his singing comes from his tone, timbre and abrupt changes in the way he sings every verse, or line, or word, or just a scream. And there is a certain kind of eloquence in screaming…
He took all the risks with this album, and the final balance of this work derives directly from all those dramatic tensions...
The cover versions he had chosen revels the great spectrum of Jeff tastes and interests. Recovering Lilac Wine, an old hit of Elkie Brooks; the atmospheric Hallelujah from Leonard Cohen, and the beautiful chant Corpus Christy Carol from Benjamin Britten.
The 2nd record has incredible strength and drama, with a perfect combination of punctual dissonance and moments of crystalline poetic suspension with Jeff incredible voice and his band.
There are versions of Hank Williams, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, Nina Simone and MC5…
These cover versions are completely and radical different from the originals. Seems that Jeff makes his, this other artists songs, in an away that almost his life depends from those versions. These are the definitive covers.
Soon, the world knew that Jeff were a little more than his father Tim Buckley.
"Grace" still remains fresh and original and still sounds like nothing else, even today.
The album is "Grace" from '94, produced by Andy Wallace and the singer and composer is the great Jeff Buckley.
Tanks to Columbia/Sony, for making – in 2004 - such a exquisite re-edition, a Legacy Edition, btw, digital remastered from the original tapes, plus two more pearls: a second cd with rare songs never published before and a dvd with studio material, concert clips and some interviews.
Jeff Buckley's music is not easy to catalogue; not even to digest such is the sublime irritability of his songs; where distortion and noise lived side by side, sometimes in the cutting edge of what we can possible bare, with pure and intimate beauty.
His creative artistic imagination is tremendously paradigmatic and original. From intimate songs with only an acoustic guitar and voice to a barrage of guitar distortions; from tremendous and poetic string arrangements to lyric falsetto screams, whispers, howls and even noises; from choir boy angelical sweet voices to hidden influences from the great Robert Plant, his voice signature is smashing.
If the words can make any sense, the true emotion of his singing comes from his tone, timbre and abrupt changes in the way he sings every verse, or line, or word, or just a scream. And there is a certain kind of eloquence in screaming…
He took all the risks with this album, and the final balance of this work derives directly from all those dramatic tensions...
The cover versions he had chosen revels the great spectrum of Jeff tastes and interests. Recovering Lilac Wine, an old hit of Elkie Brooks; the atmospheric Hallelujah from Leonard Cohen, and the beautiful chant Corpus Christy Carol from Benjamin Britten.
The 2nd record has incredible strength and drama, with a perfect combination of punctual dissonance and moments of crystalline poetic suspension with Jeff incredible voice and his band.
There are versions of Hank Williams, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, Nina Simone and MC5…
These cover versions are completely and radical different from the originals. Seems that Jeff makes his, this other artists songs, in an away that almost his life depends from those versions. These are the definitive covers.
Soon, the world knew that Jeff were a little more than his father Tim Buckley.
"Grace" still remains fresh and original and still sounds like nothing else, even today.
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