The Black Rider (1993 Studio Cast)

Tom Waits - The Black Rider (1993 Studio Cast)

The Black Rider (1993 Studio Cast)
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Artist: Tom Waits
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1993-11-02
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
  1. Lucky Day Overture
  2. The Black Rider
  3. November
  4. Just The Right Bullets
  5. Black Box Theme
  6. 'T' Ain't No Sin
  7. Flash Pan Hunter/Intro
  8. That's The Way
  9. The Briar And The Rose
  10. Russian Dance
  11. Gospel Train/Orchestra
  12. I'll Shoot The Moon
  13. Flash Pan Hunter
  14. Crossroads
  15. Gospel Train
  16. Interlude
  17. Oily Night
  18. Lucky Day
  19. The Last Rose Of Summer
  20. Carnival

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Free Music Review: Waits' best ...
Hit: 5 Stars

What a perfect project for Tom Waits! Like Woyzeck (Blood Money), not to mention Alice, The Black Rider (Der Freischutz) is perfectly complimented by Waits' inimitable style(s). Carnival music (which is just the creepy version of a waltz anyway) and avant-garde orchestrations brought a whole new aspect of Tom Waits to the foreground at the time. Now, he's done the aforementioned albums and so, looking back, it only seems natural.

William S. Burroughs (of which I'm a huge fan as well) co-wrote many selections and is even featured vocally on "TAint No Sin". So, his inclusion is even more of a treat, which shows why this is my biased review, as well favourite album.

I do agree with the previous reviewers here, in that I would not recommend this album as an introduction to Waits. Other more accessible albums would be better (perhaps Alice, Heartattack and Vine, Rain Dogs, Heart of Saturday Night - maybe even Real Gone). Nevertheless, once you're initiated, there's no better album in the Tom Waits' catalog.

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Summoned to Hamburg, Germany, to write music for a live stage production of Robert Wilson's The Black Rider, musical mastermind Waits took to the task at hand with gusto, assembling an eclectic crew of musicians to become "the pit band [he'd] always dreamed of." Several years later Waits assembled another "orchestra" in San Francisco to record many of the songs he'd written for the live production. Those tracks are found here, alongside a few rough gems from sessions in Hamburg. You'll find some musical matter familiar to Waits fans: accordions, carnivals, violas, banjos, the devil (a key figure in The Black Rider), a singing saw, bassoons, and trombones. Waits's many voices tell the rather disjointed story with a variety of musical styling, and the assembled whole is pretty much a sum of its parts (but at least they're interesting parts): a touch of Day of the Dead, a whiff of carny, a nod to Brecht, a dash of film noir, and the scent of narcosis (William Burroughs makes an appearance here). Not easy listening, by any means, but a feast for the ears. --Lorry Fleming

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