Jana Horn - The Window Is The Dream [no-quarter/us]10trks.LP w/insert

3,850円

Jana Horn - The Window Is The Dream [no-quarter/us]10trks.LP 予価3,500円+税

ガーディアン紙から「注目のアーティスト」に選ばれた彼女の鮮烈なデビュー作『Optimism』からさらに彼女の内面に踏み込んだ2ndアルバム。Silver Applesのエレクトロ・プリミティヴィズム、渋いリズムのThis Heat、The RaincoatsのタイムリープするOdyshapeなど、様々なイメージを持ってレコーディングに挑んだ作品。今作も聴き手に寄り添ってくれる1枚に仕上がりました。

先行試聴曲「After All This Time」を聴くと彼女の歌声は優し気であどけなさがKate Bollingerに加え、Devine & StattonやWeekend辺りの質感も感じられます。フィメール・ボーカル、フォークファンに加え、ネオアコ・ファンにも大推薦です♪



The Window is the Dream began as a failed poem. I wrote it as I was waking up... the last thing I want in this breath of existence / is not to throw myself into it / as any bird might stop flying / when the window is the dream. I think the original line was "toad breath." My classmates were nice about it, even the teacher.

I was taking a class on esoteric lit, a fiction workshop, a poetry class. And while the poem wasn't quite... a poem... a song did rise from it, like smoke from a fire put-out. The song is called The Dream, which maybe the album is pointing toward. These recurring lines which depict the image of a bird hitting a window, though not out of oblivion, but because the bird knows something we don't.

***What if birds aren't singing, they're screaming? (Aldous Harding)

***What if nightmares were cries from hell? What if nightmares literally took place in hell? Why not? Everything is so strange, even this is possible. (Jorge Luis Borges)

I think of a line from a favorite story of mine, "Car Crash While Hitchhiking," in which a man is observing someone badly hurt, and about to go: And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead, that’s not the great pity. I mean that he couldn’t tell me... もっと見る
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2023年4月7日リリース

These songs were mostly recorded with Jared Samuel Elioseff at Pale Moon Sessions in Cambridge, NY, with some additional recording with Craig Ross at Studio 4 in Austin, TX.

The instrumentalists were: Jared Samuel Elioseff (piano, synth, bass, classical guitar), Adam Jones (drums), Jonathan Horne (classical and electric guitar), Sarah La Puerta Gautier (vibraphone, synth), Daniel Francis Doyle (electric guitar), Craig Ross (bass), Nino Soberon (cello) and Victor Pacek (upright bass). Jared Samuel Elioseff arranged the cello on “After All This Time” and programmed the drum machine on “Song For Eve” and “Love In Return.” Jana Horn wrote the songs and played guitar, bass and piano.

The album was mixed by Craig Ross and mastered by Josh Bonati.

The painting on the outersleeve is by Sam Sanford.
The paintings on the inner sleeve are by Christina Carter.

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