Citation de marcolas le 29 mai 2019, 9 h 36 min

Citation de Marc le 29 mai 2019, 8 h 22 min

Citation de Fabrice le 28 mai 2019, 22 h 35 min

Les premières séances d'écoute de l'album ont commencé...

Une première revue :   https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/still-born-to-run-preview-of-new-bruce-springsteen-album-western-stars-38158016.html

 

Une seconde : https://www.rockol.it/news-704474/bruce-springsteen-western-stars-anteprima-recensione-informazioni?refresh_ce

Les gens ont l'air content 🙂

Edit : j'ai mis les images Facebook du livret ici : https://imgur.com/a/N9nGsYD (à lire de bas en haut)

Citation de Fabrice le 29 mai 2019, 10 h 02 min

Merci pour le lien et les photos!

 

Citation de yvvan le 29 mai 2019, 16 h 25 min

une autre revue:

http://www.badlands.co.uk/news/bruce-springsteen-western-stars-album-review/

Citation de Fabrice le 29 mai 2019, 17 h 21 min

Citation de marcolas le 29 mai 2019, 9 h 36 min

Citation de Marc le 29 mai 2019, 8 h 22 min

Citation de Fabrice le 28 mai 2019, 22 h 35 min

Les premières séances d'écoute de l'album ont commencé...

Une première revue :   https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/still-born-to-run-preview-of-new-bruce-springsteen-album-western-stars-38158016.html

 

Une seconde : https://www.rockol.it/news-704474/bruce-springsteen-western-stars-anteprima-recensione-informazioni?refresh_ce

Les gens ont l'air content

Edit : j'ai mis les images Facebook du livret ici : https://imgur.com/a/N9nGsYD (à lire de bas en haut)

Pour celles et ceux qui ne parlent pas italien mais anglais, voici la traduction du texte de rockit.

Bruce Springsteen's voice is the key to "Western stars". This album will be discussed, loved and criticized for the sound: it is a "genre" record, with precise and partly unpublished musical references for the Boss. But it is the way in which Springsteen sings and in which he tells - the physical and narrative voice - that makes this album different from the Boss as we know it.
Springsteen has dismissed the intimate / autobiographical tone of Broadway, and also the "vintage" tone of reprints in recent years. In "Western Stars" he sings with a clean and perfect voice, accompanied by airy strings and wind arrangements; tells not about himself, not directly at least, but prodice a collection of stories, a gallery of characters who seek their way under the sky of an America that no longer exists. Men who seem happy to wander in open spaces, but then realize that "You fall in love with lonely, you end up that way".
It's a concept album with a very specific narrative arc: the beginning, the first act, life on the road: the first songs, up to "Drive Fast". The second act is the awareness that chasing wild horses ("Chasin 'wild horses") leads you to lose yourself, up to the "Stones" that weigh you down and keep you from moving. It closes in the third act with the realization that love saves, from "There geos my miracle" to "Hello sunshine". The epilogue is the open ending in which the protagonist finds himself in a "Moonlight motel" thinking about what he did with his life.
Here is "Western stars", song by song - in the next few days the complete review of the album.

(Gianni Sibilla)

Hitch Hikin '

A delicate beginning, voice and guitar, then the strings enter and the song grows, without ever opening completely. It is the beginning of history, both musically and thematically. The character lives life on the road, meeting a gallery of people similar to him: "I'm hitch hikin 'all day long". "I'm a rolling stone just rolling now" is an inverted Dylanian quote: here the protagonist lives his condition in an almost carefree manner, and so do the other protagonists of the first part of the album. But as in the song by Dylan they will all come to realize "How does it feel to be on your own".

The Wayfarer

A pinch, a turn of the violin and a few touches of piano; a straight and effective melody: "Same old story, love and glory goin 'round and rorund". Then the bows enter more decisively and begin to guide the song: it starts to feel the influence of Roy Orbison and the "southern california pop" mentioned in the interviews. At one point, the Bacharach wind instruments arrive, on which is inserted the organ of David Sancious (member of the very first version of the E Street Band: he had not played with Springsteen since the 70s). Another chapter of the story of the previous song: "I'm a wayfarer, baby, I drift from town to town".

Tucson Train

Here the horns immediately enter, together with the strings, to draw the melody. A touch of electric guitar and the drums make the song more uptempo, with a nice refrain. Remember some moments of "The Rising": it is ready to be played by the E Street Band live.
Thematically remembers "Downbound train", not only for the train of the title, there metaphorically, qua real. It is the story of a person who works but in the midst of disillusionment: "We fought hard over nothin 'we fought till nothin' remained / We carried that nothin 'for long time / Now I carry my operator's license / and I spend my days just runnin 'this crane / My baby's coming on the Tucson Train ”, the Boss sings.

Western Stars

One of the masterpieces of the record, both for the theme and for the arrangement: a steel guitar, the voice with vibrato, a piano and the opening with strings to draw the desert landscapes of the text. The typically Springsteen melody recalls some moments of "Nebraska", but with a richer arrangement. "Ride me down easy, ride me down easy, tonight the western stars are shining bright again", sings Bruce, telling stories of actors who rely on viagra, stories of B-series cowboys ("Once I was shot by John Wayne / Yeah, it was towards the end ") and open spaces. In the characters the first doubts and the nostalgia of the past insinuate themselves: "Hell this days there ain't no more. Now there’s just again / Tonight the western stars are bright again ”. The only direct political reference to the album: "Our American Brothers Cross the Wire and Bring The Old Ways with Them".

Sleepy Joe's Café

Another uptempo song: part like a folk rock with banjo and set to the Seeger Sessions, it grows with strings and piano and winds, to remember the Los Lobos and mariachi atmospheres. A typically Springsteen story, that of a family that runs a club that helps people keep their work and Monday mornings away. A tribute to the provincial bars, to the "dance the night away".

Drive Fast (The Stuntman)

It slows down with a song that starts intimist, piano and guitar and the voice later, then opens with drums and strings and then slows down again. It seems to find the cowboy actor of "Western Stars", who has become a stand-in, who tells his story: "Drive fast, fall hard, keep me in your hart / don't worry about tomorrow, don't mind the scars" , and instead the wounds of life leave their mark, all right: I have steel in my leg, but at least I walk home, says Springsteen, but fatigue begins to be felt.

Chasin 'Wild Horses

The regret is the second moment of the narrative arc of the disc: to realize the time lost chasing chimeras and wild horses. The song starts vocals and guitar, then inserts banjo, slide guitar and strings, with cinematographic opening. Read the text and imagine the open spaces: "Left my home, left my friends / I didn't say goodbye / I contract out on the BLM up on the Montana Line /Chasin' wild horses.

Sundown

"Sundown / all I got is trouble in my mind". A song that plays on contrasts, on musical and thematic chiaroscuro: piano and strings and an open melody to tell instead the bewilderment of the protagonist who says "I'm twenty five hundred from where I wanna be". A song that recalls "Girls in their summer clothes", with Beach Boys choirs and references to Jimmy Webb: "I work all day on the county line" sings the Boss, echoing "Wichita Lineman"


Somewhere North of Nashville

Still regret and disorientation, in a predominantly acoustic piece that would have been good in the other "solo" records. He starts vocals and guitar and inserts piano, choruses and strings, telling the story of a musician in search of himself: "All I got is this melody and time to kill, here somewhere North of Nashville".

Stones

The beginning with the bows still recalls certain moments of "The rising", then the piano and the drums enter. Another ballad about regret: "I woke up this morning with stones in my mouth." Like the title track, a song destined to become a classic, with a refrain that enters your mind and never comes out of it: final with a violin solo, twang guitar, strings and vocalizations.

There Goes My Miracle

The third act of the story begins, with another uptempo song, already known: after the disorientation begins the awareness that salvation comes with the search for love and that "The book of love held by its rules / disobeyed by fools". The piece that most explicitly mentions Roy Orbison: generated mixed reactions - but centered in the story of the disc.

Hello Sunshine

Not by chance chosen as the first starter for the album: the protagonist who understands that the road can take you too far: "You fall in love with lonely, you end up that way". The song in which Springsteen's fight against depression also echoes, relived in the choices of the characters he tells, torn between loneliness, the road, and the search for hope. A tribute to "Everybody’s talkin '" by Fred Neil, in the version by Nilsson made famous by "A man from the sidewalk".

Moonlight Motel

A final lullaby, on a guitar arpeggio and just a few touches: the strings are in the background, and the voice is in front. A sweet, bitter epilogue, between love and solitude: "As I drove there was a chill in the breeze / and leaves tumbled from the sky and fell onto the road so black I backtracked to the Moonlight Motel

Citation de climbing_jo le 29 mai 2019, 22 h 05 min

J'ai abordé les 2 premiers singles en me disant qu'il fallait s'attendre à quelque chose de différent (ce qui n'est pas pour me déplaire). Et j'aime bien. Ces revues sont intéressantes. Je me ferai mon idée dans 15 jours !

Citation de phil le 30 mai 2019, 9 h 55 min

on me dit dans mon oreillette que le clip c'est pour aujourd'hui.....

 

Citation de Fabrice le 30 mai 2019, 11 h 07 min

Deux autres articles (en Italie et en Espagne) suite aux écoutes de l'album... Sony France est en vacances et n'a pas organisé de "séances d'écoutes" ou les invités respectent scrupuleusement les embargos. 😉

 

No one tells stories like the Boss
by FEDERICO PUCCI
Link at http://loudermusic.it/musica/nessuno-racconta-storie-come-il-boss/?fbclid=IwAR1u68YpaN4JVnfEFwz_J0zSjgEEJ9z9I9D--HulDVlzTkDwhHkMTuqN80c

After spending most of the last few years talking about himself, Bruce Springsteen dusts off the story's boots. Western Stars , the first Boss album from 2014 to this part and the first solo work by Devils & Dust in 2005, is undoubtedly a return : to the ways of writing of the past, to certain compositional tricks of his classical period, to certain references that have always inspired him. But it is not a step backwards, because the novel is the way you use the music, and because his stories still have something to say.

Always "alchemist" , as he defines himself, Bruce never starts from scratch: his blank page is full of references. The explicit reference here is the West : the one imagined on the East coast by a son of Jewish emigrants from central Europe such as Elmer Bernstein , composer of the music of the Grinta and the Magnificent Seven ; or imagined by a son of Italian and Irish immigrants , who passes by Nashville before the frontier to be inspired by those who, before him, had already made a journey on similar coordinates, the country legend Glen Campbell . But above all the western front of Western Stars, more than a place or an aesthetic parameter, it is a container of stories : the best that America has ever created.



The beginning of the album is almost humble : a guitar arpeggio to which after a few tens of seconds a timid banjo also joins from afar . And a voice that starts not serious and slurred, as expected from the last Boss, but rather clear and almost high in tone, according to an ancient fashion of country tenor. Hitch Hikin ' is a convincing prologue : the rocking melody remembers Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone (a reference also later on, and made explicit here from the verse "I'm a rolling stone just rolling on, catch me now' cause tomorrow I'll be gone ”). One can even hear In Bloom deiNirvana , if you like.

If we are interested in continuing the game of similarities, the track number two takes care of it, surely one of the most solid of the whole album for inspiration and awareness: The Wayfarer . Here it is not absurd to find an echo of Dancing In The Dark in the riff that separates the stanzas, except that the synths are replaced by an orchestra; but kinship is also felt in the way in which melody and accompaniment slide over one another. The instrumental “hook” is also on the subsequent Tucson Train (a poignant story of those who fight for nothing and finds themselves with nothing in hand): and here the woods and brasses are even more protagonists.

But if we want to look for a strong internal affinity with the great classics of Springsteen's work, it is on Nebraska that we must concentrate. You can hear it in the way Springsteen relies on guitar arpeggios, of course, and they are rehearsals Drive Fast (The Stuntman), Chasin 'Wild Horses and Somewhere North Of Nashville , all very high points on the album. Of course, here the harmonica is missing but above all the minimalism is understood: maybe it is a starting point hinted by a muted or pinched guitar , before the violins arrive. If anything, it's freedom, as a theme and as a compositional tool, to be in common: we can see, for example, in the explicit search for non-bombastic structures, as perhaps an "orchestral" disk could have conceded. The speech, however, is broken , with stanzas of different lengths, asymmetrical.



If, even among orchestral sounds, nothing on this record seems to be pompous, it is because the Boss lets the story unfold according to its time : it does not enclose it. And besides, how could it be with certain characters? We must follow their rhythm, like the protagonist of Sleepy Joe's Café - perhaps the most obvious filler of the album, but able to say something interesting: when a highway passes by his handkerchief one day, his sleepy bar becomes a mine gold. And who would have thought?

No one, because the protagonists of Western Stars begin to see the widest margins of the fresco only a posteriori, only when as actors (word to keep in mind) they become observers . The moment their stories begin, as authentic American heroes they are, they are launched into the unknown, often already quite battered, if not quite shattered : like the stuntman of Drive Fast , an adrenaline sufferer good only to crash, who does not complain even with a broken hip. Because it's enough to bring him home to his beloved, another disillusioned like him.

And after all, in the frontier the company is fundamental, whether it is human solidarity or affective union. Sometimes, it is denied: as in the case of the protagonist of Chasin 'Wild Horses , who ends up shouting in the canyon the name of his beloved, the object of desire unreachable yet ineluctable like the horses he hunts. The very definition of melancholy . Yet one cannot stop looking for the other, even when there are only coyotes on the horizon.

The excellent title-track holds all this together and says more, unraveling a theme deeply connected to the last intimate and personal Springsteen. On Broadway the Boss confessed to being nothing but a very talented bale counter, but with a heart of gold, that when he "deceives" us with a song, he does it to capture the best of us all. This is also the psychological path of the failed actor of Western Stars : a veteranof himself, who perceives the lie and poverty that surround him when and seeks refreshment in the desert, in other disillusioned dreamers like him. And how many actors, singers, entertainers must we see appear before we realize that Bruce is talking about himself - but not only - of himself? Whose fragment must he collect ?

The West is the place where those who have already failed at the start can find an opportunity for redemption: Americanophilia or not, there are few such powerful archetypes . Because the human demands of that context concern us more than we think. Lost in the frontier, must I nurture hope and cultivate a sense of brotherhood, or embrace the solitude that the place inspires to withdraw from everything and everyone?



This type of epic will never lose strength. Indeed, these questions are at the center of the social discourse of these years more than ever, and the answer is a renewed need for romanticism , after a couple of decades of dominant cynicism . And where there is exclusion , the Boss comes with an embrace of words.

For this reason, even without going into actuality, Western Stars is a record that concerns us all , at any latitude. And fortunately, Bruce's pen is in excellent condition: just take Somewhere North Of Nashville , a touching story closed within 20 lines. Sometimes, however, especially towards the end of the record, things get more cumbersome : like in the more traditional images of Stones (crows, stones, dead leaves) or in the very dramatic finale Moonlight Motel. But this does not impoverish the feeling - at the end of the album - of listening to an extraordinary narrator. The best, perhaps: because he knows that every life is a story, that every story is a dream, and that these words load the weight on our shoulders, in our place.

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Citation de Marc le 30 mai 2019, 11 h 07 min

Citation de phil le 30 mai 2019, 9 h 55 min

on me dit dans mon oreillette que le clip c'est pour aujourd'hui.....

 

Dans ton oreillette ou dans le nouveau topic créé par Fabrice pour ce nouveau titre 🙂

Je dirais même plus, c’est pour dans 2h52mn 😉

Citation de Fabrice le 30 mai 2019, 11 h 09 min

Le deuxième article (paru dans El Periodico, Espagne).

'Western stars', Springsteen's new album, song by song
The Boss's latest work is a fresco of hard stories with country air and orchestral and cinematographic arrangements
JOAN CAÑETE BAYLE
Link at https://www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cultura/20190529/western-stars-el-nuevo-disco-de-springsteen-cancion-a-cancion-7480453?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

'Western stars', Springsteen's new album, song by song
In 2007, Bruce Springsteen participated in We All Love Ennio Morricone , an album in homage to the Italian composer Ennio Morricone , with a version of Once Upon a Time in the West , performed with an electric guitar and a powerful orchestral, cinematographic accompaniment. Twelve years later, Springsteen embarks on his particular trip to the west with Western stars, his new album, which will go on sale next June 14, a brilliant introspective work that draws on many influences, among them, that cinematographic crescendo so typical of Morricone . Many of the songs of Western stars they sound like images in cinemascope, the antihero silhouetted by the sunset sun in the desert of Nevada, the wall of orchestral sound in growing until melting to black in the hand of the image.


In 2007, that Once Upon a Time in the West sounded extravagant, as far as possible from the sound of the Boss and the E Street Band. But since then some things have happened in the career of Boss. In Magic (2007), Springsteen already flirted with a more pop sound, of California airs, in songs like Girls in their summer clothes or I'll work for your love. In Working on a dream (2009) he insisted on complex productions and orchestral arrangements ( This life, Kingdom of days ). In his long stay on Broadway, Springsteen unmasked himself as what he has always been: a storyteller , a narrator.


Western stars is the roundest of his last albums, probably his best work in more than a decade. Work of average times and ballads, is an album in which Boss dresses as a crooner , with obvious influences from southern California pop of the late 60s and early 70s that adapted the Nashville sound to more affordable melodies, and with orchestral arrangements in the style of Once Upon a Time in the West. It is, unlike its more recent work, a disc thought like a complete work , if The Ghost of Tom Joad continued the path of Nebraska , Western Stars crosses the way of Devils and dus t and Tunnel of love : solo album, not band, that has a story to tell. In this case, a handful of stories of lonely characters who do not find what they are looking for. Filmed in cinemascope in the desert, of course.

HITCH HIKIN '
Powerful start of the album that marks the musical tone and the stories it tells: half time with touches of country and the orchestral crescendo with keyboards and violin. One of the best songs of Western stars.

THE WAYFARER
Like the hitchhiker, another hiker looking in the western prairies for something he may have lost along the way. «I am a walker, baby, lazy from city to city. When everyone sleeps and the midnight bells ring. The choruses at the end of the song give greater strength to the wall of orchestral sound that closes it.

TUCSON TRAIN
The most recognizable Springsteen of the album, despite the fact that it is the keyboards and not the guitar that sustain the architecture of the song. History of redemption, a common theme in the imaginary Springsteen: after hitting bottom and starting again far from home, she arrives on the train at 17.15.

WESTERN STARS
The ghost of Tom Joad is reincarnated in this song of country airs about an actor of the bunch who lived his scene of glory when he shot John Wayne. It is Springsteen in his best version as a lyricist: "A lost sheep from Oklahoma sips his mojito at the bar. He smiles and says he thinks he reminds me of that ad with a credit card. "

SLEEPY JOE'S CAFE
The funniest song (without getting discolored) of the album, extracted from the trunk of the most playful part of the Seeger Sessions. A gloomy Glory Days , an Out in the street without the youthful fury or the rock soul, "I see you on the dance floor and Monday morning is millions of miles away." Ideal to close the concert in a good mood before the first round of encores.


DRIVE FAST (THE STUNTMAN)
From the actor to the double of action scenes, who knows that the toughest blows are not those of his work. «Drive fast, fall hard, you will stay in my heart, do not worry about tomorrow, do not pay attention to the scars». Acoustic ballad that the keyboards move away from the classic Boss sound.

CHASIN 'WILD HORSES
A chorus reminiscent of the Springsteen of always, Stonian title and Dylanian spirit. Acoustic melody supported on the guitar and the keyboards, tells the story of another broken heart, another explosive character, another fool who discovers that if you scream her name on the cliff, only the echo of your own voice will return. The Springsteen who has returned from Broadway is not exactly the most playful.

SUNDOWN
The shalala of the choirs and the air to Girls in their summer clothes should not be misleading: "Sundown is not the kind of place you want to be on your own. Everything is long, hot and endless days and cold nights in solitude ». Waiting for the arrival of summer, sounds Boss in his biography narrated his fight against depression.


SOMEWHERE NORTH OF NASHVILLE
The Cautious man of the disc: short, dry, simple, hard. «For the agreement I made, the price is high: I changed you for this song». Aires of Nebraska in the south.


STONES
A start to the Secret garden for a settling of accounts: this time it is not the protagonist who is the culprit, but her. The outcome, however, is the same: loneliness. «I got up this morning with stones in my mouth. You said it's just the lies you told me. "

THERE GOES MY MIRACLE
Section of string, acoustic basis, the voice of Springsteen in its best version, for the most Californian song of the disc. «Evil of love, broken heart, love gives, love takes away» A disdainful lover? The father who sees the children go, already adults? We do not know, Boss does not identify the "lucky star" of this beautiful song.


HELLO SUNSHINE
The first single of the disc, Harry Nilson in the memory, the history of who has touched bottom and greets to the dawn. An ode to those who strive to start over, despite everything.

MOONLIGHT MOTEL
After traveling miles and miles towards the dawn seeking or fleeing (is not it the same?), The disc ends up in the parking lot of a motel, with a "bottle of Jack" in a paper bag, and a phrase from her that he barely consoles: "It's better to have loved." Acoustic subtlety and fused to black.

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