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Inglese, classe '70, voce Folk, attitudine elettro ed un complesso di inferiorità per la propria (troppo elevata) statura, passatemi il gioco di parole.
Beth Orton esordisce nei primi '90 come voce ospite di progetti elettronici tra cui Orbit e Chemical Brothers (ricordate la leggendaria "Alive Alone" in "Exit Planet Dust"?), con il primo, in quegli anni, intraprende un sodalizio (anche affettivo) che sfocia in "SuperPinkyMandy", album del '93 pubblicato in poche copie solo in Giappone e nel '96 in "Trailer Park", che si può considerare il suo vero debutto e manifesto della "Folktronica", sound che avrebbe caratterizzato tutti i suoi lavori da li in poi, almeno fino al bellissimo "Daybreaker".
"Trailer Park" si inserisce di diritto in almeno due filoni caratterizzanti i '90 e cioè quello dell' Elettronica (Trip-Hop, Drum n'Bass ) e quello ben più classico del Cantautorato Femminile (anche se in questo disco non è autrice di tutti i pezzi), difatti se da una parte le influenze elettroniche (e visto il curriculum erano inevitabili) sono evidentissime dall' altra il Mito della Ragazza Timida con dinamiche folkeggianti, munita di chitarra nella Orton si adagia perfettamente rivelandone la vera natura.
Ma questo non deve ingannare, "Trailer Park" non è album dicotomico ma bensì lineare e suadente e se una delle due influenze dette è posta "a servizio" dell'altra è proprio l'Elettronica che va a fare "substrato" perchè qui alla fin fine siamo di fronte ad un Album Folk, attualizzato alla Moda (brutto termine ma portate pazienza) del tempo ma sempre Folk rimane.
Già dall'iniziale "She Cries your Name" (scritta a quattro mani con Orbit) tutti questi elementi vengono chiariti, se infatti il buon William si diverte a creare un ambiente soffuso, la struggente voce della Orton (voce che è tra le mie preferite di quegli anni) e l'accompagnamento basic della chitarra fanno fiorire quella malinconia tipica del filone folk-cantautoriale battenzando un tipo di suono così particolare da far riconoscere le composizioni "Ortoniane" lontano un miglio.
Le successive "Tangent" e "Don't Need a Reason" confermano queste caratteristiche e anzi accentuano ancora di più il fatto che sposare suoni (e produzioni) tipicamente elettroniche ad elementi fortemente '70 non era poi tutto questo azzardo e nel loro piccolo apriranno la via a dei momenti di sperimentazione che negli anni successivi avrebbero avuto ampi spazi (tutto questo, in modo un pò più avanguardistico, si può paragonare a quello che in America stava facendo Beck, prima con "Mellow Gold" del '94 e "Odelay del '96). Il tutto rimanendo sempre comunque dentro ai confini se non dell' "easy listening" ("Live as you dream" e "Touch me with your love", per esempio) almeno a quelli della semplicità compositiva, lasciando perdere inutili e poco funzionali divagazioni "ambient", tipiche di certe composizioni "sintetiche" dell' epoca.
Oltre alle canzoni già citate è da segnalare tra i momenti più interessanti la "Philspectoriana" "I Wish i never saw the Sunshine", divertissement dove Orbit sguazza nel suo ambiente naturale (o quasi) e cioè quello dei Rmx (anche se non si tratta propriamente di canzone remixata).
In conclusione un Album piacevolissimo che può essere apprezzato sia dai nostalgici (tra cui il sottoscritto) e sia da chi affronta per la prima volta le due influenze di cui si parlava all'inizio (anzi può essere considerato come un ottimo viale d'ingresso...), mai sopra le righe e soprattutto intriso di una vena malinconica (che a noi tanto piace ,alla faccia di chi chiama "piagnona" qualsiasi artista fortemente introspettiva) mai grottesca, easy ma non scontata (esagero troppo con i giochi di parole?).
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01 She Cries Your Name (04:47)
Fallen from the western surf to find yourself alone again
Wondering where you have been
Your lonely voice calls across the scarlet coast
Reaching out to be seen
{Chorus}
She cries your name
Three times again
She cries your name
How long can this love remain?
Cut beneath the surface screen of what we say and what we see
Is a trick to be seen
She keeps crying out your name
But a scream sounds the same
How fickle fate can be
{Chorus}
Birds would scream for territory can learn to sing euphorically
Given time that is real
And there's a wasteland in your soul
The burned out trees would leave you cold
Living out in that deal
{Chorus}
She cries your name
Twelve times again
How long can this love remain?
02 Tangent (07:28)
Lost myself in a tangent of words
Can't decide what I've seen or heard
Cannot sleep for counting sheep
How long does this river run deep?
How long does this river run deep?
Building a map in order to find
What's not lost but left behind
My instinct got bruised
But I still see
I was a victim I'll be no casualty
Just like coming home
Just like coming home
Just like coming home
It was just like coming home
It was just like coming home
He said that you weave deadly tricks
Conjure it up to the worldly hicks
Stare it cold in dull surprise
Spread evil to hell in every tear you cried
Every tear you cried
Building a map in order to find
What's not lost but left behind
I was a victim I'll be no casualty
Just like coming home
Just like coming home
Just like coming home
Could be just like coming home
Coming home
Cut off my toes to spite my feet
Drank your poison,
It didn't taste too sweet
Saw that heaven's in my mind
And it's there for me to find
It's there for me to find.
05 Sugar Boy (04:21)
Sugar boy its all over now
Sugar boy its all over now
Ain't your loving
But the things that you do
Listen boy I'm getting tired of you
Sugar boy, what you trying to do
Well, I told you I loved you
Now what more can I do?
Told you I loved you
You beat my heart black and blue
I told you I loved you
Now what more can I do?
Do you want me to lay down
And die for you?
Sugar boy its all over now
Sugar boy its all over now
Went to the doctor
Told me something was wrong,
"Listen girl, you shouldn't feel so alone"
Sugar boy what you trying to do,
Well I told you I loved you,
Now what more can I do,
Told you I loved you,
You beat my heart black and blue,
I told you I loved you,
Now what more can I do,
Do you want me to lay down
And die for you.
Lay down and die,
Lay down and die,
Well I'm not gonna lay down and die,
No I'm not gonna lay down and die,
Oh no I won't lay down and die,
Never gonna lay down and die,
Oh no I'm never gonna lay down and die for you,
Oh no I'm never gonna lay down and die for you,
I'm never gonna lay down and die.
06 Touch Me With Your Love (07:26)
I dreamed of you last night
You had a different face
Or maybe just a haircut
You were older and wiser
Yet more like a child
I was amazed to still find you
There at the back of my mind
This dream was short
This dream was happy
This dream was short
This dream was happy
Put your loving on a slow burner,
If you want to keep your loving warmer
Put your loving on a slow simmer
If it helps to keep a light from growing dimmer
Now hold on, hold out
You're still thrown against that wall
Never looking to be picked up
Or left alone to fall
Can you touch me with your love?
Would I feel it if I trust enough?
Could it almost be a lust for life?
Would I feel it if I'd not known it by sight?
You could put it on a cold burner
Deception never kept it any warmer
The truth is cooking on a slow simmer
A light still shining even when it's dimmer
Hold on, hold out
You're still thrown against that wall
Never looking to be picked up
Or left alone to fall
Can you touch me with your love?
Would I feel it if I trust enough?
Could it almost be a lust for life?
Would I feel it if I'd not known it by sight?
Troubled waters locked so far down below,
Will have to find another place to go
If the truth in my heart gets put aside
Just let me go and wait for the next tide
Hold on, hold out,
I've been thrown against that wall
Never wanted to be picked up
And left alone to fall
Then it touched me just like love,
Still feel it when I trust enough,
Could almost be a lust for life
I can feel it though I'd not know it by sight
I can feel it 'cause I know it's all right
It's all right
07 Whenever (03:54)
Whenever I need a friend
It's you I come round to see again
You know that I'll always be near
You're flesh and blood and you're my memory
Live on in my memory
I send you nothing but love
Just wait and see
I send you nothing but love
Just wait for me
Wait and see
Wait and see
Great words,
You know all the right words to say
You don't always lean in my way
You don't always mean what you say
Whenever I need a friend
It's you I come 'round to see again
And everything that you do
Is everything I will ask of you
You could ask me too
I send you nothing but love
Just wait and see
I send you nothing but love
Just wait for me
Wait and see
Wait and see
Great words,
You know all the right words to say,
You don't have to lean in my way,
We don't have to mean what we say.
08 How Far (04:26)
I heard you saying rightly so,
Turn our backs on what we most need to know,
Give in too fast then give in to no,
Once they've got you where they want you,
They don't wanna know.
I could leave or I could stay,
It doesn't make a bit of difference any more anyway,
With each and every circumstance,
I lose knowledge and gain innocence,
You won't find me grieving,
There's no regret in leaving,
When I had to come here,
Like I know I had to come here,
I can see I had to come here,
For my view to be clear,
For my view to be clear.
It's easy to forget how far we've come,
How near I feel to where we first begun,
Pushed it too far,
I won't pull it too slow,
Cos' where this story ends depends on how far we go.
I could leave or I could stay,
It doesn't make a bit of difference any more anyway,
With each and every circumstance,
I lose knowledge and gain innocence,
You won't find me grieving,
There's no regret in leaving,
When I had to come here,
Like I know I had to come here,
Oh I know I had to come here,
For my view to be clear,
You know I see I had to be here,
Oh I know I had to be here,
I can see I had to be here,
For my view is now clear.
So roll on blue skies,
Roll on grey,
Just roll away,
So roll on blue skies,
Roll on grey,
Just roll away,
Come on roll on blue skies,
Come on grey,
Then roll away,
Just roll away,
Just roll away.
09 Someone's Daughter (04:16)
I wanna sit and talk and laugh with you as the day ends
I wanna see your smiling face before the new day begins
You'll never know what it means
To see the sunlight in your hair and dancing everywhere
I wanna shout about it
But I keep quiet about it
I wanna laugh about it
But I don't joke about it
I wanna live without it
But I can't do without it
I'm someone's daughter
Are your somebody's son?
Can I ease your pain till the morning comes
I'm no one's daughter
I belong to the sun
Gonna ease your pain till the morning comes
Keep looking for the reason
High and low to let it go
Keep losing my mind
Looking for the peace that I'll never find
I wanna know what it feels like
To be the sunlight in your hair and dancing everywhere
I wanna shout about it
But I keep quiet about it
I wanna laugh about it
But I don't joke about it
I wanna live without it
But I can't do without it
I'm someone's daughter
Are your somebody's son?
Can I ease your pain till the morning comes
I'm no one's daughter
I belong to the sun
Gonna ease your pain 'til the morning comes
10 I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine (04:43)
Baby do you know what you did today
Baby do you know what you took away
You took the blue out of the sky
My whole life changed when you said goodbye
An' I keep crying, crying
Ooooh baby
Ooooh baby
I wish I never saw the sunshine
I wish I never saw the sunshine
An' if I never saw the sunshine baby
Then maybe I wouldn't mind the rain
Every day is just like the day before
All alone a million miles from shore
All of my dreams I dreamed with you
Now they will die and never come true
An' I keep crying, crying
Ooooh baby
Ooooh baby
I wish I never saw the sunshine
I wish I never saw the sunshine
An' if I never saw the sunshine baby
Then maybe I wouldn't mind the rain
Ooooh this pain
And I know there would not be
This cloud that's over me
Everywhere I go
Ooooh baby
Ooooh baby
I wish I never saw the sunshine
I wish I never saw the sunshine
An' if I never saw the sunshine baby
Then maybe I wouldn't mind the rain
Ooooh this pain
I wouldn't mind the rain
There wouldn't be this pain
I wouldn't mind the rain
I wouldn't mind the rain
11 Galaxy of Emptiness (10:09)
The stars light a sky
On a galaxy of emptiness tonight
Though I'm happiest
When there's no reason for me to be
With no one's expectation to weigh heavy on my heart
And so much hope it sometimes tears me all apart
Won't you please
Knock me off my feet for a while?
Could you please
Knock me off my feet for a while?
'Cause there's a galaxy of emptiness tonight
A whole galaxy of emptiness tonight
A galaxy of emptiness tonight
The stars light a sky
On a gutter full of broken dreams tonight
Though I'm not content, that's the way it seems to be
Still, I've been fighting all week
Though I don't know what for
Hoping someone else, somewhere near knows the score
Won't you please
Knock me off my feet for a while?
Could you please
Knock me off my feet for a while?
And there's a galaxy of emptiness tonight
There's a galaxy of emptiness tonight
A whole galaxy of emptiness tonight
Monkey see, monkey do
I spent my whole life surrounded by people like you
With all that expectation to weigh heavy on your heart
But no ideas to later tear it all apart
Won't you please
Knock me off my feet for a while?
Could you please
Knock me off my feet for a while?
'Cause there's a galaxy of emptiness tonight
A whole wide galaxy of emptiness tonight
Beware the galaxy of emptiness tonight
'Cause there's a galaxy of emptiness tonight
A whole wide galaxy of emptiness tonight
Yeah, there's a galaxy of emptiness
A whole wide galaxy of emptiness tonight
Beware the galaxy of emptiness tonight
(A galaxy of emptiness)
(A whole galaxy of stars)
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