[TR24][OF] Ben Harper - Both Sides Of The Gun - 2006/2016 (Blues Rock, Alternative)

Ben Harper - Both Sides Of The Gun Формат записи/Источник записи: [TR24][OF] Наличие водяных знаков: Нет Год издания/переиздания диска: 2006/2016 Жанр: Blues Rock, Alternative Издатель (лейбл): Virgin Продолжительность: 63:48 Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: Только обложка альбома Треклист: White 01. Morning Yearning (4:09) 02. Waiting For You (3:33) 03. Picture In A Frame (4:37) 04. Never Leave Lonely Alone (2:51) 05. Sweet Nothing Serenade (2:45) 06. Reason To Mourn (4:30) 07. More Than Sorry (3:25) 08. Cryin' Won't Help You Now (2:34) 09. Happy Everafter In Your Eyes (2:24) Black 01. Better Way (3:59) 02. Both Sides Of The Gun (2:49) 03. Engraved Invitation (2:56) 04. Black Rain (2:55) 05. Gather 'Round The Stone (3:11) 06. Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm Eating (2:32) 07. Get It Like You Like It (3:25) 08. The Way You Found Me (2:53) 09. Serve Your Soul (8:19) Rec.: The Boat Studios, Silver Lake, California.     Состав Ben Harper – Vocals, slide guitar, acoustic guitar, Weissenborn, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion, piano, vibes, Juan Nelson, Matt Cory, Jesse Ingulls, William Gus Seyffert – Bass Oliver Francis Charles, JP Plunier, Jose Medeles, Jordan Richardson – Drums Leon Mobley – Percussion Jason Yates, David Palmer – Keys Michael Ward – Guitar, bass David Lindley – Tambura Greg Kurstin – Hammond B3 Marc Ford – Guitar Alyssa Park, Joel Pargman, Patrick Rosalez, Brett Banducci, Timothy Loo – Strings Danny Kalb – Guitar, sound engineer Jan Ghazi – Electric guitar, backing vocals Nick Sandro – Bass, backing vocals Jason Mozersky – Guitar Scott Thomas, Ellen Harper, Sue Chase, Michelle Griepentrog, Jennifer Ohrstrom, Natasha Cockrell, Charlie Musselwhite – Backing vocals     Об альбоме (сборнике) Ben Harper’s 2006 release, Both Sides of the Gun presents the dichotemy of Harper’s musical nature. The first disc is made of mostly acoustic and string-driven songs, while the second disc is made up of the more rock and upbeat material and touching on genres such as hard rock, funk and gospel. After seven albums and 12 years in the game, it can stop being said that Ben Harper is hard to categorize, because at this point, the fact that he always incorporates diverse elements — from folk to hard rock to funk — into his music and makes something very much his own is a given. He’s practically created a genre. So maybe that’s why it’s so surprising that Both Sides of the Gun, a two-disc album, has little of that very thing that makes him so unique. Instead, he chooses to show off the range of his musical interests, and ends up with something closer to a compilation than a Ben Harper album. The softer, acoustically based disc is full of pretty love songs and sweetly strummed guitars, and though Harper has done this before and kept his own style intact (in “Two Hands of a Prayer” and “When She Believes,” for example), here he comes off sounding a bit boring. He hasn’t forgotten himself completely: both “Never Leave Lonely Alone” and “Crying Won’t Help You Now” are good songs, sounding strongly of him while also experimenting with other styles (Latin/French and gospel, respectively), but almost all the other tracks could have been pulled off any run-of-the-mill singer/songwriter album from the past ten years. Things improve slightly on the other, louder, disc (“Please Don’t Talk About Murder While I’m Eating” is all electric blues, complete with a distorted slide guitar solo, and “Serve Your Soul” is the most Harper-ish of everything, blending folk guitar, pure rock, raw blues, and socially conscious lyrics into one eight-minute masterpiece), but there’s still that sampler-record feeling there. “Engraved Invitation” and “Get It Like You Like It” are heavily influenced by the Rolling Stones, “Both Sides of the Gun” alludes to Curtis Mayfield and James Brown, and “Better Way” is practically a tribute (at least musically) to Prince’s “7.” Harper has always borrowed from other artists, but he’s also always added enough of himself to make it not quite so…blatant. It’s not that he isn’t able to perform such a diverse selection: there are plenty of excellent cuts and most of the album is quite good. Harper is a fantastically talented musician, and he has really developed his voice since Diamonds on the Inside and is unafraid to do things with it, going from a croon to a scream and always sounding great. But why he’s copying other people’s styles instead of building on his own is both odd and disappointing, because he’s always been able to experiment before while also preserving his individuality. If in Both Sides of the Gun Harper is trying to show his audience what a wide variety of music he can cover, he certainly accomplishes that. But if he’s trying to create an album that is really about him, he doesn’t quite deliver. Ben Harper is in there, don’t worry, but he can be a little hard to find. –AllMusic Review by Marisa Brown Контейнер: FLAC (*.flac) Тип рипа: tracks Разрядность: 24/88,2 Количество каналов: 2.0     Лог проверки качества foobar2000 1.3.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2017-04-26 21:12:49 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Ben Harper / Both Sides Of The Gun -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR10 -1.01 dB -14.66 dB 4:09 01-Morning Yearning DR8 -0.40 dB -11.05 dB 3:33 02-Waiting For You DR9 0.00 dB -11.53 dB 4:37 03-Picture In A Frame DR10 -1.65 dB -14.43 dB 2:51 04-Never Leave Lonely Alone DR10 -0.17 dB -13.13 dB 2:45 05-Sweet Nothing Serenade DR10 -0.69 dB -14.02 dB 4:30 06-Reason To Mourn DR10 -0.65 dB -13.61 dB 3:25 07-More Than Sorry DR12 -0.92 dB -14.86 dB 2:34 08-Cryin' Won't Help You Now DR10 -1.36 dB -14.60 dB 2:24 09-Happy Everafter In Your Eyes DR9 -0.57 dB -11.37 dB 3:59 01-Better Way DR10 0.00 dB -11.15 dB 2:49 02-Both Sides Of The Gun DR9 0.00 dB -11.30 dB 2:56 03-Engraved Invitation DR9 -0.31 dB -11.33 dB 2:55 04-Black Rain DR9 -0.36 dB -11.90 dB 3:11 05-Gather 'Round The Stone DR9 -0.08 dB -10.30 dB 2:32 06-Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm Eating DR9 0.00 dB -10.46 dB 3:25 07-Get It Like You Like It DR10 -0.02 dB -11.84 dB 2:53 08-The Way You Found Me DR9 -0.15 dB -12.37 dB 8:19 09-Serve Your Soul -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 18 Official DR value: DR10 Samplerate: 88200 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 24 Bitrate: 2679 kbps Codec: FLAC ================================================================================     Скриншот спектра частот   Источник: hdtracks.com