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专辑曲目:
01 - Never In A Million Years
02 - I Wish You Well
03 - Here's A Health
04 - Brockagh Braes
05 - Garden Valley
06 - October Winds
07 - Bold Jamie
08 - The Streets Of Derry (With Paul Brady)
09 - This Time
10 - The Snows They Melt The Soonest
11 - Walls
12 - Grace
专辑名称:清晨之后
英文名称:After The Morning
发行时间:2006年02月28日
专辑歌手:Cara Dillon 卡兰.迪伦
地区:爱尔兰
语言:英语
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歌手资料
Cara Dillon凭借她震撼人心的表演和成熟迷人的声音赢得了整个国家观众的心,以及其他几个国家的观众,因为她的表演能穿越国界,文化和语言。
Cara Dillon出生于1975年,来自一个爱尔兰传统音乐世家。她的声音如此清透美丽而极具风格,让观众们觉得相间恨晚。用这样一句话来形容不足为过:Cara Dillon是个不寻常的天才!14岁的时候,Cara Dillon就赢得了全爱尔兰传统歌唱比赛冠军。在开始她自己喜欢的事业之前,她和她的伙伴Sam Lakeman和一家唱片公司签约想做流行歌手,可之后他们发现自己并不喜欢做流行音乐。于是他们出了一张凄美的民歌专集Cara Dillon/Rough Trade Records,出乎意料地赢得了广泛好评。这股随之而来的Cara Dillon效应让她和她的伙伴完全转型。而之后她所获得的无数奖项更加肯定了他们的转型。
唱片公司决意要让她和她的搭档萨姆·莱克曼(Sam Lakeman)成为流行歌星,但是他们两人最终摆脱束缚,去做他们自己的作品。那就是那张以她的名字命名的美好而忧郁的民歌专辑——Cara Dillon/Rough Trade Records。挑剔的评论家们对这张专辑大加赞扬,她随后做的多场表演让整个欧洲的观众都涌上街头。
这就是卡拉·狄伦现象,它让卡拉和萨姆迅速从无名小卒转变成欧洲大地上最吃香的艺人。一大堆奖项铺天盖地而来——英国广播公司民乐奖的最佳新人奖,《黑色也是多彩的》(Black is the Colour)和 “Hotpress’ Best Trad获得最佳专辑奖,2001年在《HMV Choice》杂志民意投票中位居第九位,在世界音乐与舞蹈(WOMAD)节获得了演出的圆满成功,他们在全世界证明了他们的魅力没有人能够抗拒。

第二张唱片是在他们位于萨默塞特(Somerset)的家里完成的,名为《甜蜜的自由》(Sweet Liberty),像第一张专辑一样让人感觉亲密和轻松,又加入了一些更有吸引力的东西。这张专辑由萨姆制作,专辑名称选自“The Emigrant’s Farewell”,曲风基调抓住了卡拉对传统歌曲进行情感诠释时的精髓。其中还有5首狄龙和莱克曼以前原创的歌曲,以及卡拉那首已经成名的《那里有玫瑰》“There Were Roses”(获得2003年英国广播公司民乐奖最佳歌曲提名),这首歌曲演绎了托米·杉德(Tommy Sand)的那个动人的爱尔兰故事。她第一次唱这首歌是应比利·科纳利(Billy Connolly)之邀在他的电视节目上演出,结果观众的反映非常强烈。“大家可能会感到意外,不过我的确是从来没有做过什么和政治相关的事情,但是那一刻我真的是对和平有特别强烈的感觉,和这首歌的精神产生了强烈的共鸣,使得我非常自信能够把它很好的表演出来。”
随着卡拉声音的逐渐成熟,萨姆的创作也同步的随之发展。他们的歌曲有了新的深度。尽管她的自信越来越多,但是《甜蜜的自由》比已往任何时候都更加让她贴近她生根的故土,里面的歌曲“The Gem of the Roe”以及 “The Winding River Roe”都深深的牵引她回到如梦的童年,那个叫做Dungiven的小城。那里长大的孩子都知道她歌曲里所讲述的故事。

歌曲欣赏:Craigie Hill
It being in the springtime and the small birds they were singing
Down by yon shady harbor I carelessly did stray
The thrushes they were warbling, the violets they were charming
To view fond lovers talking, a while I did delay
She said, my dear don't leave me all for another season
Though fortune does be pleasing I'll go along with you
I'll forsake friends and relations and bid this Irish Nation
And to the bonny Bann banks forever I'll bid adieu
He said, my dear don't grieve or yet annoy my patience
You know I love you dearly the more I'm going away
I'm going to a foreign nation to purchase a plantation
To comfort us hereafter all in America
Then after a short while a fortune does be pleasing
“Twill cause them for to smile at our late going away
We'll be happy as Queen Victoria, all in her greatest glory
We'll be drinking wine and porter, all in America
If you were in your bed lying and thinking on dying
The sight of the lovely Bann banks your sorrow you'd give o'er
Or if were down one hour, down in yon shady bower
Pleasure would surround you, you'd think on death no more
Then fare you well, sweet Craigie Hill, where often times I've roved
I never thought my childhood days I'd part you any more
Now we're sailing on the ocean for honour and promotion
And the bonny boats are sailing, way down by Doorin shore

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