专辑英文名: Antony And The Johnsons
歌手: Antony And The Johnsons
音乐风格: 摇滚
资源格式: MP3
发行时间: 1998年
地区: 美国
语言: 英语
简介:
专辑风格： Art Rock, Avantgarde
压缩码率： VBR 256Kbps
专辑介绍：
第一次听说这个乐队是因为他们出乎意料得夺得英国水星音乐大奖（Mercury Music Prize ），当听到那张I am a bird之后，就完全被他美丽的每一个音符都充满感情的演唱征服，他的颤音是那么自然，他的声音是那么的独特，你可以说他的嗓音浑厚，但是却又不同于歌剧男声般厚重，当音符响起，他的歌声会从这一秒其紧紧抓住你的心，仿佛他的痛苦在你戴上耳机的那一刻就成为你的痛苦，而他的快乐就成为了你的快乐，你们被联系在了一起，一种心灵和灵魂的相同，一种歌者和听者的默契。
主唱Antony Hegarty是一个异装癖，一直渴望变成女人，却又始终在挣扎徘徊，他的心情在音乐里完全表露出来，比如you are my sister，他直白的唱出了对于女性的向往和我自己现在的矛盾，整张专辑灰暗寂寞。
这是他们非常早期的作品，也是主唱唯一一张以真面目示人的封面，他之后的封面都采用了黑白色调的人物肖像，而这张基调为水蓝色，透着神秘神圣感觉的封面则是非常特殊。
专辑中他还是表现出惊人的颤音天赋，抑或是他的嗓音本来就是颤抖深情的？
总之，请大家仔细欣赏这样一张用心编制的优秀专辑！！体会歌者寂寞又美丽的灵魂！
Every emotion in the planet is in that gorgeous voice" - Diamanda Galas
Antony and the Johnsons is the self-titled debut release from the virtuosic English-born singer on David Tibet's DURTRO label through World Serpent Distribution in London.
乐队介绍：
Career
Their early live shows were often opened by Dr. Julia Yasuda, an intersex person, who performed the welcome in Morse code.
One theme explored in the band's music is aspects of transgender life. This is expressed in songs such as "For Today I am a Boy", in which a young boy dreams of growing up to be a woman. This song is featured in the 2007 documentary Red Without Blue.
British experimental musician David Tibet of Current 93 heard a demo and offered to release Antony's music through his Durtro label. The debut album, Antony and the Johnsons, was released in 2000. In 2001, Antony released a short follow-up EP, I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy, which, in addition to the title track, included a cover of "Mysteries of Love", a David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti song and "Soft Black Stars", a cover of a Current 93 song.
Producer Hal Willner heard the EP and played it to Lou Reed, who immediately recruited him for his project The Raven. Now gaining more attention, Antony signed to US-based record label Secretly Canadian, and released another EP, The Lake, with Lou Reed guest-performing on one of the tracks. Secretly Canadian also re-released Antony's debut album in the United States to wider distribution in 2004.
"Candy Darling on her Deathbed" by Peter Hujar used as the cover art for I Am a Bird NowAntony's second full-length album, 2005's I am a Bird Now, was greeted with positive reviews and significantly more mainstream attention, winning the Mercury Music Prize for the best album of 2005. Rival Mercury nominees, and favorites for the prize, the Kaiser Chiefs suggested that Antony got in on a technicality; despite the fact he was born in the United Kingdom he spent much of his time in the US - although they later apologized for the suggestion that he wasn't a deserving winner.
He appeared as a prison inmate, performing an acoustic version of the song "The Rapture" in Steve Buscemi's movie Animal Factory. He also made an appearance in the Sebastian Lifshitz movie Wild Side performing the song "I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy". In the Wachowski brothers' screen adaptation of V for Vendetta, the main characters dance to Antony's "Bird Gerhl" from I am a Bird Now as it plays on V's illicit Wurlitzer.
In November 2006 Antony and the Johnsons performed a successful European tour of 'Turning', a multimedia collaboration with video producer Charles Atlas, which focused on themes of transformation and metamorphosis.[2]
Antony gave a break-out performance in the 2006 concert documentary, Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, a star-studded tribute to Leonard Cohen that was later released on DVD along with an accompanying soundtrack. Antony's interpretation of "If it Be Your Will" was considered one of the highlights of the show.
The 5-song Another World EP was released on October 7, 2008. Antony and the Johnsons' third album, The Crying Light, was released on January 19, 2009[3]. Antony has described the theme of the album as being "about landscape and the future"[4].
Antony is also involved in visual art outside of music. [5]
乐队成员
[edit] Band members
Current members include:
Antony Hegarty - lead vocals
Julia Kent (previously of Rasputina) - first chair cello
Parker Kindred - drummer
Jeff Langston - bassist
Doug Wieselman - horns
Maxim Moston - violin, arrangement
Rob Moose - guitar, violin
