Jamie Barnes

简介：Jamie Barnes成长在美国的Louisville，父亲是一名鼓手，而他也时常在父亲的乐队里弹奏bass。作为独立唱作人，Jamie用他的音乐充分表现出了lo-fi的精神，要制作出一张温暖动人的唱片，一间造价不菲、设备齐全的录音室并不是一个必要条件，细腻的情感和娓娓动听的旋律才是不可或缺的首要因素。他的专辑都是坚持在自己的公寓录制每一首歌，演奏每一件乐器，用自己的方式给疲惫的都市人讲述一个个平静遥远的故事。\nby Jason Lymangrover\nMost of Jamie Barnes' laid-back indie folk is highly personal work that incorporates religious imagery, love notes, and internal struggles. With a strong aptitude for learning instruments by ear, he includes a wide variety of small household instruments like toy piano, xylophone, flute, tabla, and glockenspiel in his bedroom recordings, but generally builds his songs around his soothing voice and a lone acoustic guitar. Barnes picked up his first guitar at age 11, and began sharpening his skills in family jam sessions with his father, who had played in a band that opened for the Doors and the Beach Boys, and his big brother. At 15, Barnes began playing around Louisville, KY, with a few bands. Around the time he was 18, after being inspired by the imagery of Songs of Leonard Cohen and other emotionally provocative artists like Low, Tom Waits, and Gillian Welch, Barnes created a demo with the hopes of making music that was akin to a comforting dream. He shopped his homemade CD around to a handful of labels and then went off to play some shows with After the Panic. When he returned, he received a response from Brian John Mitchell at Silber. \nMitchell signed the fledgling artist, despite the fact that Barnes had a considerably different sound than most of the label's droning noise-rock bands, which include Origami Arktika, Clang Quartet, and Remora. In 2003, before Barnes was 20, Silber released his lo-fi debut album, The Fallen Acrobat, which he had recorded in his bedroom over the course of a year. In 2006, Barnes followed his debut with the more complex and rewarding Honey from the Ribcage. This release displayed a more orchestrated and personal approach to songwriting, with underlying tones of questioned spirituality and distress. "Second Guess My Own" illustrates how he lost several years from his life due to a memory loss, and "Red Prescription" is about his battle with the prescription drugs that caused that memory loss. Here, his lyrics often act as a diary tracking his fears and life-altering events, simultaneously drawing parallels to the biblical story of Samson. After this record, Barnes relocated to the Pink Bullet label; The Recalibrated Heart, a fuller album that continued to follow his spiritual journey into the intimate realms of self-produced bedroom recording, arrived in 2007. 歌手简介：最为独立唱作人，Jamie用他的音乐充分表现出了lo-fi的精神，即要制作出一张温暖动人的唱片，一间造价不菲，设备齐全的录音室并不是一个必要条件，细腻的情感和娓娓动听的旋律才是不可或缺的首要因素。The Recalibrated Heart已经是他的第三张专辑了，而他也依旧坚持在自己的公寓录制每一首歌，演奏每一件乐器，用自己的方式给疲惫的都市人讲述一个个平静遥远的故事。作品介绍：中文名称：The Recalibrated Heart 发行时间：2006年10月24日 专辑歌手：Jamie Barnes 地区：美国 语言：英语 专辑类型：Indie/Folk 唱片公司：Pink Bullet 曲目: 01. Vampire Movie 02. Conflict Diamond 03. Song for the Mofa Seven 04. Hell's Adopted Mile 05. Glory Days 06. Don't Turn My Love Down 07. Noelle, Noelle 08. Violet Morning 09. Day That Cuts Till Dawn 10. Harp of the Fool 专辑名称：Honey from the Ribcage 专辑歌手：Jamie Barnes 专辑语种：英语 专辑类型：Indie Pop/Folk/Alternative 发行时间: 2005年05月10日 地区: 美国 专辑介绍： Jamie 的第二张专辑Honey from the Ribcage采用了更多的管弦乐编曲，并更加有个人风格。歌词内容主要是关注个人的恐惧、情感，以及生命中的事件等。比如第一首歌Second Guess My Own是关于Jamie罹患长期性失忆症，而Red Prescription则是关于他与导致他失忆的处方药搏斗的事。整张专辑中，恶魔、天使、生物，以及颜色都是一件事或另一件事的象征。 Jamie Barnes' sophomore effort is a pleasant listen that shows once again that one-man bands can be pretty detailed things these days, given home-recording capabilities. The list of instruments played is as long as one's arm, but the key needs to be whether or not it's all worth something in the end. On balance, it is, though Honey from the Ribcage is more contemplative than in your face, often creating an easy feeling not all that far removed from, say, Dan Fogelberg -- but if that doesn't raise hackles automatically, then there's nothing to fear. As it is, Barnes has more on his mind than reflections on masculinity during the Carter Administration, with songs touching on Biblical themes (the album title refers to the story of Samson) and questions of spirituality slowly, gently unfolding across the course of 40 minutes. Barnes' warm, softly yearning voice is instantly calming, an instrument in its own right that suggests lazy hours on a porch during a warm spring evening. That he can tackle the kind of subjects and language almost more familiar from the rampages of the Swans or Nick Cave's extremities on gentler songs like "Three Suns" and make it work is well to his credit. The album's only guest, Will Cummings, adds some great organ and harmonies on "Red Prescription," but Barnes' harmonies with himself stand up just fine elsewhere. Musically, Barnes' attention to detail often comes to the fore unexpectedly -- consider how the echo and what sounds initially like soft trumpet during the break on "Snow Angel" add a cascading depth to a strong song. The jauntier swing of "Pearly Gate & Son Pest Control" -- which has an absolutely brilliant title and perversely humorous lyrical conceit in addressing unsettling subject matter about sin and a vengeful deity -- shows yet another side to this surprisingly complex album. 专辑曲目: 01. Second Guess My Own 02. Snow Angel 03. Red Prescription 04. Pearly Gate & Son Pest Control 05. Three Suns 06. The Sword That Divides 07. Black Lung 08. Oil Rig 09. All These Things Are So 10. White Owl

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