Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River
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Artist: Sea WolfEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Music Label: Dangerbird
Soundtracks:
- Leaves In The River
- Winter Windows
- Black Dirt
- Rose Captain, The
- Middle Distance Runner
- You're A Wolf
- Song For The Dead
- Black Leaf Falls
- Cold, The Dark & The Silence, The
- Neutral Ground
Free Music Notes for Leaves in the River
Free Music Review: A haunting quality that lingers beyond the final notes
Hit: 4 Stars
Kudos to Alex Church and his ensemble of supporting musicians for adding a distinctive voice to the legions of modern story tellers, including bands such as Midlake, The Decemberists, and Cowboy Junkies. Mr. Church takes the universal themes of romance, angst, tragedy, and mortality and wraps them in an organic veneer, yet he avoid being maudlin, derivative, or trite. His images and metaphors have a haunting quality that despite their nod to the impermanence of things, linger beyond the final notes from these songs.
Thankfully, he has not tried to make this effort a one-man-band, for the cast of musicians playing his songs render then fresher and deeper than if Mr. Church had handled this work as a solo endeavor. Here's hoping for much music along these lines!
Leaves in the River Poster
The songs on this debut full-length are awash with longing for distant places visited, lived, and loved, and are molded by the geography of singer/songwriter Alex Brown Church's past - the long, winding descent from the Sierra foothills to the hazy shores of the Barbary Coast. Lofting, arching melodies over foggy, elegiac pop and folk structures. The impression left by these songs lasts long after they've packed up and moved on. Produced by Phil Ek (The Shins, Built To Spill, Band Of Horses).Sea Wolf is the vehicle for Alex Brown Church's songs who is not only Sea Wolf 's songwriter and singer but also the band's only invariable member. Born in the small gold rush town of Columbia, Calif., Church's musical memories were shaped by ad-hoc bluegrass outfits playing for tourists on sidewalks of his hometown and platters of Beatles and Willie Nelson on his mom's turntable. The Songs of Sea Wolf's first full-length effort, Leaves In The River are awash with longing for distant places visited, lived and loved, and are molded by the geography of his past -- the long, winding descent from the Sierra foothills to the hazy shores of Barbary Coast, where Church has always gravitated. As a kid, Church himself trekked across Europe and the U.S. with his mother, including stays in Alaska and Hawaii and a year living in a leaky tent in the French countryside. He spent most of his formative years living in the Bay Area and went east to attend film school at NYU. But, like his songs, the setting was always fully intertwined with the narrative.
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