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Edie Brickell: The Heavy Circles

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Label: Dynamite Child Records
Released: 2008.02.12
Time:
 34:14
Category: Alternative Rock
Producer(s): Harper Simon, Bryce Goggin
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: ediebrickell.com, www.theheavycircles.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Henri (Edie Brickell/Harper Simon) - 2:47
[2] Better (Edie Brickell/Harper Simon) - 3:10
[3] Ready to Play (Edie Brickell/Harper Simon) - 3:45
[4] Confused (Edie Brickell/Harper Simon) - 3:57
[5] Easier (Edie Brickell/Harper Simon) - 4:31
[6] Maximo (Edie Brickell/Harper Simon) - 3:07
[7] Wait and Wait (Edie Brickell/Harper Simon) - 4:14
[8] Need a Friend (Edie Brickell/Harper Simon) - 3:06
[9] Dynamite Child (Edie Brickell/Harper Simon) - 1:45
[10] Oh Darling (Edie Brickell/Harper Simon) - 3:52

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Edie Brickell - Vocals, Composer

Harper Simon - Audio Production, Bass, Composer, Executive Producer, Guitar, Horn Arrangements, Producer, String Arrangements
Bryce Goggin - Audio Production, Engineer, Keyboards, Producer, Synthesizer
Yuka Honda - Bass, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Programming, Synthesizer
Harper - Bass Guitar, Guitars, Vocals
Michael Bearden - Horn, Keyboards
Oren Bloedow - Guitar
Robin Dimaggio - Drums, Horn
Matt Johnson - Drums
Sean Lennon - Bass, Bass Guitar
Joe McGinty - Keyboards, Strings
Money Mark - Keyboards

Jennifer Charles - Vocals
Inara George - Vocals
Miho Hatori - Vocals
Anna Waronker - Vocals
Martha Wainwright - Vocals

Bill Harris Quintet - Horn Section
John Greswell - Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements
Bill Harris - Additional Personnel, Horn
Jens Wendleboe - Additional Personnel, Horn
Chuck MacKinnon - Additional Personnel, Horn, Horn Section
Pamelia Kurstin - Theremin
Patrick Warren - Chamberlin
Joan Wasser - Soloist, Strings, String Section, Violin
Nina Lee - Additional Personnel, Strings, String Section
Maxim Moston - Additional Personnel, Strings, String Section
Charlie Burnham - Additional Personnel, Strings, String Section

Will Brierre - Assistant Engineer, Audio Engineer, Engineer, Mixing
Adam Sachs - Assistant Engineer, Audio Engineer
Mark Needham - Mixing
Chris Bellman - Mastering
Echo Danon - Photography
Frank Longo - Art Direction, Design

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The Heavy Circles is an American indie rock band featuring Edie Brickell and Harper Simon. The album features contributions from many guests musicians including Sean Lennon, Money Mark, Yuka Honda from the band Cibo Matto, Patrick Warren and Jeff Buckley/Rufus Wainwright drummer Matt Johnson. On February 12, 2008, The Heavy Circles released their self-titled debut album on the indie rock label Dynamite Child. The album was released in the UK in April 2008.

Shortly after making a comeback album with the New Bohemians (2006's Stranger Things), Edie Brickell re-emerges by teaming with stepson Harper Simon for a collection of new songs that have a stronger musical connection with her solo material than with her old band. Excluding her multilayered vocals, The Heavy Circles is a sparse affair, with just a few instances of violins or horns infiltrating the basic setting of guitar, bass, drum, and keys. But guests like Sean Lennon, Miho Hatori, Yuka Honda, and Martha Wainwright also stop by and lend a more relaxed, laid-back attitude to tunes like the guitar-centric "Henri," with its very cryptic lyrics that speak of Egyptian curtains and dancing around in a circle. "Wait and Wait" has a strong psychedelic influence thanks to Simon's guitar and a string arrangement that harks back to the late '60s. Brickell herself sounds incredibly comfortable on "Need a Friend," a bona fide reggae track with rocksteady horns and guitar, while "Dynamite Child" has a refreshing punk-rock feel. With Heavy Circles, Brickell and Simon seem to have found an ideal songwriting partnership where their own musical personalities don't seem to clash, but don't put themselves to sleep, either.



One interpretation of the "heavy circles" of the album title and group name here might be the circles of heavyweight talents associated with this effort. Specifically, the Heavy Circles are a duo consisting of singer/songwriter Edie Brickell, who has a history going back to her platinum-selling work with the New Bohemians in the late '80s, and her stepson, Harper Simon, a son of Paul Simon, Brickell's husband, by his first wife. The apparent generational divide doesn't really exist: as of the release of this album, Brickell was 41 years old, Simon 35. They were joined in the studio by friends of Simon's including other famous progeny, such as Sean Lennon and Martha Wainwright. For all that, however, the disc might as well have been billed as an Edie Brickell solo album, since Brickell co-writes and sings lead vocals on every song. The band is given greater prominence than might be the case with a solo album, as it plays rhythmic pop/rock arrangements clearly influenced by '60s and '70s rock, and Brickell is mixed a little lower than she might be if this were her record. But her voice is sufficiently distinctive that anyone familiar with her work and hearing this album simply would take it as an Edie Brickell record. As Edie Brickell records go, it is a pleasant but modest effort. The songs are well-crafted, but not particularly impressive; the playing meanders in places; and Brickell seems a bit hemmed in, not able to express herself in as individual a way as usual.

William Ruhlmann - All Music Guide
 

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