This Wild Willing Glen Hansard

• 1 I'll Be You, Be Me 04:22
• 2 Don't Settle 06:01
• 3 Fool's Game 06:04
• 4 Race To The Bottom 06:15
• 5 The Closing Door 04:27
• 6 Brother's Keeper 05:07
• 7 Mary 03:40
• 8 Threading Water 04:12
• 9 Weight Of The World 07:28
• 10 Who's Gonna Be Your Baby Now 04:33
• 11 Good Life Of Song 07:36
• 12 Leave A Light 04:25
• Total Runtime 01:04:10

Info for This Wild Willing

Großartiger neuer Wurf des irischen Singer-Songwriter-Genies, das aus der inspirierenden Zusammenarbeit mit über 20 Musikern entstand und neue Wege von intimer Schönheit beschreitet. Glen Hansard, das ist der der irische Singer-Songwriter, der das Aschenputtelmärchen der Musikbranche gelebt hat, nach frühem Schulabbruch als Straßenmusiker anfing und heute in ausverkauften Konzerthäusern spielt, in preisgekrönten Kinofilmen mitspielte und 2008 den Oskar für den besten Titel-Song gewann. Nach Jahren als Frontman von The Frames und als Hälfte des (Film-)Duos The Swell Season (Film "Once" 2007) veröffentlicht Glen Hansard seit 2012 als Solokünstler und mit This Wild Willing sein inzwischen viertes Album.

Wenn traditionelle Singer/Songwriter ihre Lieder aus Improvisationen entstehen lassen, sind die Ergebnisse oft eher künstlerisch wertvoll als wohlklingend. Glen Hansard hört man allerdings trotzdem gerne beim Suchen neuer Ausdrucksformen zu. Unterstützt von rund 20 Musikern – darunter langjährige Mitstreiter wie Joe Doyle und Ruth O´Mahony Brady, Leonard-Cohen-Saitenvirtuose Javier Mas, die klassisch ausgebildeten iranischen Brüder Khoshravesh oder die Dubliner Elektronik-Künstler Deasy und Sunken Foal –, lässt Hansard hier etwas abseits seines Kerngeschäfts seinen Gesang mit subtilen orchestralen Arrangements, bewusst dissonanten Klanglandschaften, sanfter Elektronik und dunklen Melodien verschmelzen, betört aber mit der gleichen Intimität und Verwundbarkeit, die ihn seit jeher auszeichnen.

"... reihen sich eindringliche Melodien und Stimmen zu einem leuchtkräftigen Gesamtwerk aneinander." (Audio)

"Dabei wird nahezu alles verwendet, was man sich nur stilistisch vorstellen kann – vom Flüstern bis hin zu orientalisch anmutenden Versatzstücken. Hauptsache, die Stimmung ist irgendwie düster und gedrückt. Deswegen ist das vierte Solowerk sicherlich kein einfaches, aber trotzdem ein sehr gutes Album, weil es von der Stimmung und der Intensität lebt." (Good Times)

Glen Hansard, Gesang, Gitarre

Glen Hansard
With a host of real-life songs and lilting vocals that reflect a passion for his influences (particularly Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen, and Bob Dylan), Glen Hansard is best known for his work with the Frames and the Swell Season. Born to a working-class Dublin family during the spring of 1970, he left school at age 13 in search of making music his career. He began busking in the streets of Dublin, laying the groundwork for his engaging stage persona and, ironically, mimicking the plot line of Once, the movie that would later make him a star in multiple countries. By his late teens, Hansard had recorded his first demo with the help of his Mum, who'd lent him some money for the project. One of the 50 tapes he pressed landed in the hands of Island Records' Denny Cordell, a former producer who'd previously helped bring Tom Petty and Joe Cocker to the Island roster. Upon a meeting at Cordell's flat, the 17-year-old Hansard also met Ron Wood, Marianne Faithfull, and Stewart Copeland. The meeting, to say the least, left a lasting impression on Hansard, and in the end, Cordell signed him with the approval of Island founder Chris Blackwell.

From there, Hansard quickly gathered a group of fellow buskers and formed the Frames. Unfortunately, quick accolades proved daunting for Hansard and the Frames, whose grunge-influenced release Another Love Song came and went without selling much. Island Records responded by dropping the group. To distract himself from the disappointment, Hansard took on the role of Outspan Foster, a guitarist in the famed Alan Parker film The Commitments. He would later admit that he shouldn't have taken the role, as it merely placated his struggle with making music. But a trip to New York gave Hansard the space and time to dream it all up again, and with a newfound focus, he wrote the guitar-blazing anthem "Revelate" and "Say It to Me Now." Both songs eventually landed on the Frames' proper debut album, Fitzcarraldo, which was released in 1996 and helped make the Frames a popular group in Ireland.

Over the next decade, Hansard and the Frames continued releasing albums while also becoming one of Ireland's finest live acts. In 2003, Hansard played host to Other Voices: Songs from a Room, a popular television show featuring Ireland's best in new music. Three years later, while the Frames readied the release of their sixth effort, The Cost, Hansard unveiled a new side project called the Swell Season. The acoustic-based group featured his collaborations with Czech songstress Markéta Irglová. He and Irglová also appeared as working-class immigrants in the Irish movie Once, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 and won an Oscar later that year. Thanks to the movie's success (not to mention its popular soundtrack, Once: Music from the Motion Picture, which featured the band's music), the Swell Season became a popular act in Ireland and abroad, leading to the release of a mature sophomore album in 2009. 2012's Anti-released Rhythm and Repose, the solo debut from Hansard, was produced by Thomas Bartlett (the National, Antony & the Johnsons) and inspired by the singer/songwriter's year-and-a-half spent as a denizen of New York City. Later in 2012 Hansard's track "Take the Heartland" appeared on the Hunger Games soundtrack, and the following year he recorded a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Drive All Night" with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, which was included on an Anti-issued EP of same name in November in aid of music education charity Little Kids Rock.

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