Ben Harper - Winter Is For Lovers (Opaque White Vinyl) - VINYL LP

Ben Harper - Winter Is For Lovers [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/23/2020

Wide Open Light Is a family of songs I've written.I've selected them with the care one might put into a personal photo album.To that effect, I'd call it a sonic family photo album, each track a close relative to the next.The story behind this record is simple.I have been writing songs now for over 30 years.It's what I long to do, love to do, and at times feel I need to do, and hope to continue doing until the ink runs dry and the notes fade.But for now, Wide Open Light.Deliberately minimalist, the songs themselves do as much of the heavy lifting as the production.(produced by myself, and my longtime collaborators Danny Kalb and Jason Mozersky)Featured guests on the album include Jack Johnson guitar, vocals on 'Gone For Good'Shelby Lynne vocals on '8 Minutes'Piers Faccini vocals on 'Wide Open Light' - Ben Harper Album Tracks 1. Heart and Crown 2. Giving Ghosts 3. Masterpiece 4. 8 Minutes 5. Yard Sale 6. Trying Not to Fall in Love with You 7. Wide Open Light 8. One More Change 9. Growing Growing Gone 10. Love After Love 11. Thank You Pat Brayer

Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 . InchIt was like I was moving forward and venturing into places I had never been before. Taking everything I've learned from every other record and kind of setting fire to it all and starting over,Inch Ben Harper says of his new album Bloodline Maintenance. InchAnd I knew the sounds I was hearing in my head were so unorthodox that I had to do most of it myself.Inch The result is a fearless and immensely soulful work largely inspired by the loss of a longtime friend and the lingering influence of a mercurial and charismatic father. Along with guitar and bass, Harper als o played the drums including an eclectic assortment of percussions. The deliberately open spaces and accented beats influenced in large part by the exploratory rhythms of the hip-hop he has loved since his teens. The result is less a direct influence than the applying of hip-hop's inventiveness to longstanding paradigms of soul, blues and jazz, spinning it all forward into a reconfiguration of a new black Americana. InchIf this is my Mule Variations, then hallelujah.Inch Harper says, referencing the groundbreaking Tom Waits record. Bloodline Maintenance is both a political and personally revealing work. It is soul music, but never a stylistic tribute to some bygone era. The sound and words are essential and undeniably timely. Harper acknowledges that much of the exploration on the record was fueled by an awareness of time. InchIt's this notion of mortality and the people we have lost. The way I hoped it would all turn out and the realization that, as beautiful as it all can be, perhaps none of it matters beyond these moments.Inch Album Tracks 1. Below Sea Level 2. We Need to Talk About It 3. Where Did We Go Wrong 4. Problem Child 5. Need to Know Basis 6. It Ain't No Use 7. More Than Love 8. Smile at the Mention 9. Honey, Honey 10. Knew the Day Was Comin'