Daguerreotypes
This Is My Way to Tell You That Everything Is Real and Happening Right Now
Pitchfork 78点相当
昨年 年の瀬 にリリースだったよう
ピッチフォークは、70点台だが、
これはちょっと、
なかなかのアルバム。
すごく良い。
(2枚組の容量なので、やや中だるみがあるかも)
ケベック出身のアーティスト。
Chelsea というところ？
James Samimi Farr のプロジェクト名義？
拠点がミネアポリスとの記載
カナダから移住して、NYで活動後
現在の拠点のよう。 ケベックとも行き来。
(AI 他情報)
Farr recorded the album on vintage TASCAM multi-track recorders and did his overdubs on reel-to-reel tape, a finicky process that stretches the tape and imbues the music with the ghosts of previous takes. You can hear his loving devotion to the process in the music, which feels surrounded by everyday objects and drenched in light. “Room tone” is a tricky and intangible quality, but I can nearly see the paint on the walls in the West Quebec cottage where Farr recorded these quiet, contemplative songs.
A deep and wide spiritual longing courses through the center of Farr’s music, a sort of everyday mysticism, that also puts his music in conversation with Will Oldham’s. Farr tends to express this yearning in naked, almost discomfitingly straightforward terms: “When you are alone, you are with God/And when you are with God, you are with everyone,” he croons on “Firefly,” letting the last syllable of “everyone” take him into a falsetto. “Is this a Christian album?” a friend asked me when I played it recently.
It isn’t, but the God-shaped hole is everywhere on This Is My Way. On “Take a Great Notion,” over stand-up bass notes that hit like ink droplets, Farr imagines a time when he will, in fact, embrace a higher power: “Spool out your mercy like the line of a kite,” he pleads, before admitting: “I don’t believe you, or in you/But maybe I might.”
ケベックのローカル誌
202601推し
