Disfarmer

Bill Frisell - Disfarmer

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Artist: Bill Frisell
Brand: FRISELL,BILL
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-07-21
Music Label: Nonesuch
Product features:
  • FRISELL BILL DISFARMER
Soundtracks:
  1. Disfarmer Theme
  2. Lonely Man
  3. Lost, Night
  4. Farmer
  5. Focus
  6. Peter Miller's Discovery
  7. That's Alright, Mama
  8. Little Girl
  9. Little Boy
  10. No One Gets In
  11. Lovesick Blues
  12. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
  13. Shutter, Dream
  14. Exposed
  15. The Wizard
  16. Think
  17. Drink
  18. Play
  19. I Am Not A Farmer
  20. Small Town
  21. Arkansas (Part 1)
  22. Arkansas (Part 2)
  23. Arkansas (Part 3)
  24. Lost Again, Dark
  25. Natural Light
  26. Did You See Him?

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Free Music Review: American Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars

I had the pleasure of seeing this work performed live last April in San Francisco, accompanied by a slide show of Disfarmer's photographs. The live show, which was stunning, featured Frisell playing entirely electric guitar, and the studio version is more acoustic. Consequently, this recording is more layered, subtle and nuanced. While Frisell and this remarkable group of musicians have been mining this particular hybrid of American roots and jazz for several years, to my ears, this work stands alone in depth and beauty. I have only one criticism and that is the next to last cut, which here is nearly three minutes, but live was about ten minutes and just kept building with layer upon layer of solos and loops until I could not stop crying with wonder and joy. My family is originally from the part of the country where the photos were taken and it's difficult for me to describe how deeply I am affected by the marriage of this music with those photos. I've been a huge Frisell fan for many years now, but this is my favorite work. It is as timeless as the photos; yet at the same time, entirely new and completely inspired.
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Disfarmer Poster

The late Michael Disfarmer was an odd, curmudgeonly character in the rural community of Heber Springs, Arkansas, who, despite his anti-social character, chose to record the stark images of his fellow townspeople, during the 1940's and 50's, in cheap black-and-white photographic portraits. Decades after the photographer's passing, a cache of work made by this solitary and oft-reviled man was rediscovered, and he has come to be regarded as an important outsider artist. Among the many drawn to his plain yet deeply evocative pictures was Chuck Helm, Director of the Performing Arts at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, who introduced guitarist and composer Bill Frisell to Disfarmer's oeuvre on the hunch that Frisell might be inspired by it.
Says Helm, the catalyst for Disfarmer, 'To me, Bill Frisell is a uniquely American artist with a distinctive and singular musical voice, like that of Thelonious Monk or Aaron Copland. In his probing yet atmospheric evocations of American vistas I could hear parallels to the emotional truths of Disfarmer's compelling photographs.'
As Helm suspected, Disfarmer's work resonated with Frisell and led to the creation of a touring multimedia work, Disfarmer Project - featuring Frisell, lap steel guitar player Greg Leisz and violinist Jenny Scheinman, plus slides of Disfarmer's photos, displayed on screens. The piece premiered on March 3, 2007 at the Wexner Center, on the campus of Ohio State University. The score was subsequently recorded in Seattle and Nashville, produced by Frisell's longtime collaborator Lee Townsend and also featuring Viktor Krauss on bass. Along with the Frisell's original compositions, he interpolates versions of such tunes as Arthur Crudup's 'That's Alright Mama' and Hank Williams Sr.'s 'I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)' into this subtly yet stunningly beautiful set.

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