{"id":60294,"date":"2016-10-24T17:25:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T15:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gdapress.it\/it\/?p=60294"},"modified":"2016-10-24T17:25:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T15:25:20","slug":"paul-kelly-charlie-owen-la-leggenda-della-musica-australiana-paul-kelly-torna-deaths-dateless-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gdapress.it\/it\/index.php\/60294\/musica\/paul-kelly-charlie-owen-la-leggenda-della-musica-australiana-paul-kelly-torna-deaths-dateless-night.html","title":{"rendered":"PAUL KELLY & CHARLIE OWEN: la leggenda della musica australiana Paul Kelly torna con “Death’s Dateless Night”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LA LEGGENDA DELLA MUSICA AUSTRALIANA PAUL KELLY COLLABORA PER LA PRIMA VOLTA CON CHARLIE OWEN ED IL RISULTATO E\u2019 \u201cDEATH\u2019S DATELESS NIGHT<\/i>\u201d,\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

UN ALBUM ESTREMAMENTE PERSONALE CHE RIPRENDE IL CANTAUTORATO IN STILE LENNON & McCARTNEY, HANK WILLIAMS, COLE PORTER E LEONARD COHEN<\/b><\/p>\n

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Alcuni album nascono ispirati dall\u2019amore, altri da cuori spezzati, altri ancora \u2013 come nel caso di \u201cDeath\u2019s Dateless Night<\/i>\u201d- nascono invece da un funerale.\u00a0<\/b>Dopo anni in cui Paul Kelly, leggenda della musica Australiana,\u00a0 e Charlie Owen, musicista polistrumentista e produttore australiano, parlavano di una collaborazione, ritrovatisi casualmente al funerale di un amico comune, cominciano a mettere in pratica l\u2019idea di un disco insieme.<\/b>\u00a0\u201cDeath\u2019s Dateless Night\u201d \u00e8 un album eclettico dalla forte risonanza emotiva, che ripercorre il cantautorato in stile Leonard Cohen, Lennon & McCartney, Cole Porter, Hank Williams. Scritto da Paul Kelly e Charlie Owen, mixato e prodotto da Greg Walker, masterizzato da Adam Dempsey agli Scion Studios a Victoria\/Melbourne, \u201cDeath\u2019s Dateless Night\u201d \u00e8 in uscita il 7 ottobre 2016 per Cooking Vinyl\/Edel<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014\u00a0Some albums are inspired by love. Others are created out of heartbreak. Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen\u2019s first-ever collaboration, Death\u2019s Dateless Night<\/i><\/b>, came about because of a funeral. As Kelly relates, \u201cCharlie and I had talked over the years about making a record together but had never got around to it. Driving to a friend\u2019s funeral last year and discussing the songs we\u2019d played at other such occasions, separately and together, finally gave us our frame.\u201d<\/p>\n

This disc\u2019s dozen tunes come mainly from others; however, unlike most covers projects, Kelly and Owen didn\u2019t really pick their selections \u2014 they were chosen for them. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting to look at the kinds of songs people request at funerals,\u201d Kelly reveals. \u201cThey\u2019re not always sad, of course. They tend towards the philosophical, wide and deep in scope.\u201d<\/p>\n

This eclectic, and thoroughly compelling, set of songs mixes well-known tunes (the Beatles\u2019 \u201cLet It Be,\u201d Leonard Cohen\u2019s \u201cBird on a Wire,\u201d and Townes Van Zandt\u2019s \u201cTo Live Is to Fly\u201d) with some standards (\u201cPallet on the Floor,\u201d Stephen Foster\u2019s \u201cHard Times Come Again No More\u201d and Cole Porter\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Fence Me In\u201d) and songs from Kelly and Owen\u2019s homeland (L.J. Hill\u2019s \u201cPretty Bird Tree\u201d and Maurice Frawley\u2019s \u201cGood Things\u201d). The one tune that the two did pick to include is the closing number, \u201cAngel of Death.\u201d Kelly views this haunting song, which Hank Williams recorded in his Luke the Drifter persona, \u201cas a coda to the rest of the record, a kind of commentary.\u201d<\/p>\n

The music on Death\u2019s Dateless Night<\/i> certainly holds a strong emotional resonance. Kelly and Owen keep the arrangements spare befitting the album\u2019s reflective mood. Owen\u2019s deft handling of a variety of instruments (electric guitar, dobro, lap steel, synthesizer and piano) provides a soothing setting for Kelly\u2019s warm, soulful vocals. The duo gives a suitable solemnity to \u201cBird on a Wire\u201d and \u201cHard Times,\u201d while \u201cDon\u2019t Fence Me In\u201d offers some lightness and Kelly\u2019s near a-cappella rendition of the traditional Irish song of farewell \u201cThe Parting Glass\u201d rivals the classic version by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.<\/p>\n

The album happily doesn\u2019t totally exclude songs penned by Kelly, who is regarded as one of Australia\u2019s finest songwriters. \u201cNukkanya,\u201d which means \u201csee ya\u201d in the Aboriginal language Narrandjeri, comes from his first solo album, 1994\u2019s Wanted Man<\/i>; however, he originally composed it, somewhat coincidentally, for a play entitled Funerals and Circuses<\/i>. His other tune here, \u201cMeet Me in the Middle of the Air,\u201d appeared on his 2005 bluegrass CD Foggy Highway<\/i>, although Kelly acknowledges that its words are inspired by Psalm 23, which is frequently recited at funerals.<\/p>\n

Death\u2019s Dateless Night<\/i> continues Kelly\u2019s recent interest in making albums that are more than just a group of tunes. Earlier this year, he released the seven-song mini-album Seven Sonnets & A Song<\/i>, on which he re-worked a septet of William Shakespeare\u2019s love sonnets into songs. Prior to that, he collaborated with several female vocalists for Paul Kelly Presents the Merri Soul Sessions<\/i> and teamed up with Crowded House\u2019s Neil Finn for a tour and its subsequent live two-CD set, Goin\u2019 Your Way<\/i>. Kelly\u2019s 2011 release Spring and Fall<\/i> presents the arc of a relationship from beginning to end, while 2007\u2019s Stolen Apples<\/i> is a religious-themed song cycle. Kelly\u2019s grandest musical<\/span> venture (so far), however, has been his \u201cA-Z\u201d project. It began back in 2004, when he did a series of shows in which he performed his song catalog in alphabetical order. After doing several \u201cA-Z\u201d tours, he released an eight-CD, 105-song box set, The A-Z Recordings,<\/i> that Darren Wang hailed in Paste<\/i> as \u201ca transparency into the craft of songwriting that is unsurpassed in pop music today.\u201d<\/p>\n

A living music legend in his native country, Kelly has garnered an impressive number of honors there, including six Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA) awards, ten Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Music Awards and the 1997 induction into ARIA\u2019s Hall of Fame. His memoir How to Make Gravy<\/i> shared \u201cBiography of the Year\u201d honors at the 2011 Australian Book Industry Awards and the audio version features such great Australian actors as Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, Judy Davis and Hugh Jackman. Kelly has been the subject of a documentary (Paul Kelly: Stories of Me<\/i>) and two tribute albums (Women at the Well<\/i> and Before Too Long<\/i>), and was honored with an all-star concert saluting his 30 years as a recording artist.<\/p>\n

It was in the late 1980s that Paul Kelly first burst onto the American music scene with a trio of terrific albums on A&M Records: Gossip, Under the Sun <\/i>and So Much Water So Close to Home<\/i>. Critics piled up the accolades, particularly noting the intelligence of his lyrics. Rolling Stone<\/i>\u2019s David Fricke has called Kelly \u201cone of the finest songwriters I have ever heard, Australian or otherwise.\u201d Starting with these records, Kelly quickly developed a devoted U.S. following that continued with his \u201990s solo outings \u2014 Comedy, Wanted Man<\/i> and Deeper Water<\/i> \u2014 straight through to his recent releases.<\/p>\n

Charlie Owen probably is best known in America as the subject of Kelly\u2019s tune \u201cCharlie Owen\u2019s Slide Guide,\u201d which appeared on his 1998 Words & Music<\/i> album. Owen, however, is an established presence in the Australian music scene. The versatile, sought-after guitarist has played in a number of groups, including a stint with the Divinyls. His band Tendrils earned an ARIA Best Alternative album nomination while his rootsier trio Tex, Don & Charlie was shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize in 2005.<\/p>\n

While Death\u2019s Dateless Night<\/i> is the first album Owen and Kelly have made together, their partnership started on an earlier project. The two organized a tribute album honoring the popular Australian musician Maurice Frawley after he passed away from cancer in 2009. Both Owen and Kelly had played in bands with Frawley, although not at the same time. The three-disc Long Gone Whistle<\/i> served to raise funds for the music program established by Frawley at Rochester Secondary College.<\/p>\n

It is quite fitting then that Kelly and Owen included the Frawley tune \u201cGood Thing\u201d on Death\u2019s Dateless Night.<\/i> Given the duo\u2019s deeply personal reasons behind making this album, it also makes sense that the CD\u2019s only guests are Kelly\u2019s sister Mary Jo and his daughters Memphis and Maddy. While funerals served as the origins for Death\u2019s Dateless Night, <\/i>the music is far more life-affirming than maudlin. In fact, Kelly admits that the album was such a pleasure to make that he is already thinking about a sequel.<\/p>\n

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