![]() ![]() There are really majestic qualities about people that can be reached through music. The little scared kid or the full-on romantic lover is being accessed. You can reach a trance-like stage where what’s really going on inside the human psyche is being sung to…the music aims at what’s really going on underneath…not what people pretend to be or what they hope they can buy at a store. I love listening to Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson and Thelonious Monk alone, but, the fact is, there are so many other areas you can go with other instruments going at the same time. All my favorite music has been band music. The object of going solo was to attract the perfect band. It’s the difference between the eight year-old and the twenty-eight year old: you still contain the eight year-old, but two decades exist around you. “All the spontaneity and attention to the dynamics of the moment is extended four times and maybe beyond. “The experience of creating and performing with a band was different from my solo work,” Buckley says about the recording of GRACE. Tipping his hat to the master, Buckley renders his interpretation of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” a solo track recorded live-in-the-studio the song is one of Jeff’s most enthusiastically-received tunes in-concert. On the moody “Dream Brother,” the singer offers a warning to a friend, a mysterious message swaddled in the unconscious. ![]() #GRACE FULL ALBUM MAGNET LINK JEFF BUCKLEY FREE#“Lover, You Should Have Come Over,” holds a candle in a dark circular staircase, lonesome vocals wrapped around slow tender chords and lines like “It’s never over, she’s the tear that hangs inside my soul forever.” “Mojo Pin,” co-written by Buckley and former Captain Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas, is a powerful ensemble reading of a song first introduced on Live At Sin-é, a testimony to Buckley’s avant-garde and free jazz proclivities. “Eternal life is now on my trail,” he sings, “Got my red glitter coffin, man, just need one last nail/While all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games/There’s a flaming red horizon that screams our names.” “Eternal Life,” is a sonically bruising plea for emotional tolerance and psychic liberation. GRACE gives voice to those secrets of the human experience that lie mute and waiting for sound. The record includes seven originals and one cover performed with his band and two covers done solo. Within the walls of this studio, Buckley and company created a unique blend of sound and vision: emotion-drenched vocals laced throughout extraordinary instrumental work. Noted classical composer and jazz vibraphonist Karl Berger wrote and conducted string arrangements assisted by Jeff. Recorded in the fall of 1993 at Bearsville Recording Studio in Woodstock, NY, GRACE features Jeff on vocals, guitars, keyboards, dulcimer and tabla Mick Grondahl and Matt Thompson, members of his touring band, on bass and drums respectively and production by Andy Wallace (Paw, White Zombie, Soul Asylum). ![]()
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