(alternative, cabaret, indie rock) Firewater - The Man On The Burning Tightrope - 2003, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Firewater / The Man on the Burning Tightrope
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Path: ...\Firewater - The Man on the Burning Tightrope (2003) [FLAC]
01 -=- 01 - Fanfare.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
02 -=- 02 - Anything at All.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
03 -=- 03 - Too Much (Is Never Enough).flac -=- CDDA (100%)
04 -=- 04 - Too Many Angels.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
05 -=- 05 - Dark Days Indeed.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
06 -=- 06 - The Man on the Burning Tightrope.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
07 -=- 07 - The Truth Hurts.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
08 -=- 08 - Secret.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
09 -=- 09 - The Vegas Strip.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
10 -=- 10 - Ponzi's Revenge.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
11 -=- 11 - Don't Make It Stop.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
12 -=- 12 - The Notorious & Legendary Dog & Pony Show.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
13 -=- 13 - The Song that Saved My Life.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
14 -=- 14 - Dark Days Revisited.flac -=- CDDA (99%)
15 -=- 15 - Before the Fall.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
16 -=- 16 - Descent.flac -=- CDDA (100%)
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New York-based band Firewater, incorporated a global range of musical influences into their highly-dynamic sound. A loosely-knit ensemble centered around the lead vocals of ex-Cop Shoots Cop bass player Tod A. (born: Tod Ashley), Firewater tied together such influences as Klezmer, Indian wedding music, art-punk, and Tom Waits-style cabaret poetry to create their heady, often quite danceable sound. Coupled with Tod A.'s acerbic, post-apocalyptic, and death-obsessed lyrics, Firewater was a band to be reckoned with almost from the beginning.
Shortly after forming in 1995, Firewater released its debut, Get Off The Cross (We Need The Wood For The Fire). Both it and 1998's The Ponzi Scheme featured guitarist Duane Denison of Jesus Lizard, drummer Yuval Gabay of Soul Coughing and saxophone and accordion player Kurt Hofmann of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. The sultry vocals of Elsyian Fields' Jennifer Charles also drifted through both albums. Charles returned for 2001's more pop-oriented Psychopharmacology; other contributions came from saxophonist Ori Kaplan and sitar player Oren Bloedow. In 2003, Tod A. and his "wedding band gone wrong" returned with a stripped-down, razor-wire-wrapped effort for Jetset entitled The Man on the Burning Tightrope. The covers album Songs We Should Have Written appeared early the following year. Tod A. then went on an extended trek through Thailand, India, Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia, which he chronicled on his blog Postcards from the Other Side of the World. A. also recorded music on his travels, collaborating with producer Tamir Muskat and local musicians along the way. The results were The Golden Hour, which Bloodshot Records released in spring 2008.
by Johnny Loftus

До Firewater Тод Эшли (сценическое его имя Tod A.) играл в группе Cop Shoot Cop. В нынешнем своём бэнде он работает вокалистом, автором текстов и бас-гитаристом. Тод метко характеризует манеру своей формации как «свадебный оркестр, с которым что-то не так». Изначально это такое хулиганское и кичливое кабацкое кабаре с тенями гофмановских чертей в сполохах над шипящим очагом — в стиле и образах песни группы «Король и Шут» про то как «ели мясо мужики, пивом запивали». Штрих, конечно, весьма общий и не исчерпывающий. Помимо прелести пьяных подпевок собратьев, сам Эшли способен интонировать как Питер Мёрфи, и одно только это обстоятельство — а ещё аналогии с Уэйтсом периода «Rain Dogs» — несколько отрезвляет и заставляет взглянуть на Firewater не только как на балаган в чистом виде. Последняя на сегодняшний день пластинка группы называется The Golden Hour, и она — плод добровольного изгнания и скитаний Тода по просторам Индии, Турции, Индонезии и Пакистана. Лидер Firewater создавал альбом, будто писал картину, кропотливо добавляя новых красок и полутонов, в чем ему немало помогли местные музыканты, звуки экзотических инструментов, вмонтированные в ткань пластинки шумы восточных улиц и тамошние радио-войсы.