Happy Rhodes - Many Worlds Are Born Tonight
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Artist: Happy RhodesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-08-11
Music Label: Samson Music
Soundtracks:
- 100 Years
- Many Worlds Are Born Tonight
- The Chariot
- Ra Is a Busy God
- If Wishes Were Horses, How Beggars Would Ride
- Roy (Back from the Offworld)
- Tragic
- Proof
- Looking over Cliffs
- Winter
- Serenading Genius
Free Music Notes for Many Worlds Are Born Tonight
Free Music Review: Happy Rhodes And Her Worlds
Hit: 5 Stars
Musically, New Yorker avant-garde has given to us many of the greatest talents. Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Lydia Lunch, DJ Spooky and the late band The Swans are examples of the musical quality that comes from New York. But a lot of artists still don't get the attention they deserve. This is the case of Happy Rhodes, an important but underrated exponent of New Yorker avant-garde. Rhodes may be ignored by the mainstream. However, she has won a growing cult of fans that includes Tori Amos and ex-Swan Michael Gira. Happy is the kind of artist that one cannot find in magazines such as, say, Rolling Stone or Spin or even listen in commercial radio stations. Nonetheless, in many independent radio programs ( such as Echoes) and publications (CMJ) her musical presence is truly compelling. Rhodes' talent not only resides in the fact that she is a true sound-alchemist nor in her dramatic, sometimes raw lyrics, but also in being owner of one of the most privileged and intense voices of our time; able to sing from the deepest range of PJ Harvey or Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier, to the highest of Kate Bush. In fact, Happy has been compared to Bush... And even to The Legendary Pink Dots! The truth is that Happy Rhodes belongs to a group of musicians that are able to take any kind of risks, and combine the results of their experimentation with a poetry full of drama, which explores a lot of topics, from personal bad experiences, to loneliness and hopelessness, to the typical mysticism of these days of spiritual renaissance. It does not matter if is in acoustic guitar or techno-sounds, Rhodes' melodies are able to reach the most intense and emotional landscapes in a way comparable to Bjork, Radiohead, Brian Eno, Laika, and the Venezuelan-American duo Dogon. Another interesting thing about her work is that each album seems to be "conceptual-without-intention". Happy Rhodes began her career in 1986, with three simultaneous records; Rhodes I and Rhodes II, which compile many of Happy's early songs, and Rearmament, which would be officially her first studio album. This three albums were three collections of beautiful, but really disturbing ballads. Ecto (1987), was a promising follow-up, musically more challenging and involving. With this album, Happy won a small cult of followers around her. Even though that, she did not release another album until 1991, but she kept active participating in intimate concerts in little theaters, and collaborating with Kevin Barlett, owner of the label that represented Happy, Aural Gratification. In 1991, Happy Rhodes makes a glorious discographic return with Warpaint. This was a more mature record than its predecessors, and her first in being massively distributed. Warpaint surprised for something else: the acoustic guitar, which characterized Rhodes' style in the 80's, didn't appeared at all. A lot of people was fascinated with this album, whose songs were definitely oriented to the so-called ambient genre, with lightness of art-rock. Then came Equipoise (1993), an album with a lighter sound than its predecessor, that abandoned the ambient influences to make more emphasis in the art-pop. Equipoise contained one of the most famous songs of Rhodes' work, Save Our Souls. In 1994, Rhodes releases a compilation of her best themes called Rhodesongs, based on the impact that had HR5, an for radio-promotion only that contained acoustic versions of four of her songs, plus a beautiful cover of her idolized David Bowie, Ashes to Ashes. After this release, came Rhodes' most accessible album to date, Building the Colossus (1995), and a compilation of rare cuts and live-in-radio presentations The Keep (1995). During the successive period, Happy Rhodes split with the label Aural Gratification. In August, 1998, Happy Rhodes released Many Worlds Are Born Tonight, a collection of emotional landscapes, intimate poetry, and twisted fairy tales. In this album, Rhodes mixes David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Tangerine Dream, Dead Can Dance, Bjork and Portishead, sometimes in the same song. Many Worlds is probably her best and most experimental album to date. The publication of Many Worlds, her first album with Samson Music, has raised a lot of expectations among her fans. First, because it was her first studio album in three years. Then , because after the breakup with Aural Gratification, Rhodes announced that she was looking for a major label. With Many Worlds, Rhodes has reached a new peak of creativity, without loosing her artistic identity. Many Worlds is certainly much darker and sometimes much harder to swallow than its two studio predecessors. However, the music still keeps the enigmatic flavor and erudite lyrical style that always has characterized Happy's work. Some approximations to trip-hop (100 years), powerful songs a la David Bowie (Proof), and even ethereal but intense cuts ( The Chariot, Winter) prove that this album is one of the most unique and intense masterpieces of 1998. Is also noticeably Ra is a Busy God, with a Tangerine Dream-like intro. Happy Rhodes will continue to shine in her particular universe. The same universe which music sounds like the Middle Ages and the Space Era at the same time, and she invite us to know about in her last album Many Worlds Are Born Tonight. One of the best albums of 1998.
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