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Un angelo sceso sulla terra, una voce fuori dal mondo, un'anima pura, estremamente sensibile, musica che viene dal cuore, dal profondo, che ti scava dentro e dopo l'ascolto ti lascia stupefatto e sbigottito, quasi non credi che qualcuno possa raggiungere tali vette, non ci credi proprio..
Questo è stato Jeff Buckley.
Questo live uscito nel Maggio del 2000 per volere della madre Mary Guibert e del chitarrista Michael Tighe esalta tutte le proprietà di questo artista che, se fosse ancora tra noi, meriterebbe il gradino più alto del podio senza discussioni per capacità, tecnica, estensione vocale, interpretazione e quant'altro vi viene in mente..
Si inizia con "Dream Brother", il pezzo parte piano, sommessamente, un arpeggio di chitarra quasi impercettibile, poi si aggiungono batteria e basso, tutto scorre lento e ti avvolge in una spirale magica e catartica, prima che entri la voce di Jeff, piano. . accompagnando il resto allo stesso volume.. Lui parte sempre piano, poi, mano a mano che il pezzo cresce, prende coraggio per esplodere in acuti impossibili, inumani, ultraterreni. Il pezzo è eseguito alla perfezione e Jeff è strabiliante.
Si prosegue con la più movimentata "I Woke Up in a Strange Place", dove la voce di Jeff si fa più irriverente e sguaiata, ma sempre unica. Decisamente ben eseguito. "Mojo Pin", terza traccia, lascia sbalorditi solo per il vocalizzo iniziale, dove capisci che quest'uomo aveva un controllo pressochè totale sul suo strumento, (e anche sull'altro.. non dimentichiamoci che suonava anche la chitarra mentre cantava, e come la suonava!). Il pezzo è identico all'originale su 'Grace'. L'urlo sguaiato si pulisce subito dopo, passando a un pulito quasi divino e ad un vocalizzo da far invidia alle migliori cantanti liriche. "Mojo pin" è stata scritta dopo un sogno fato dall'artista, e non ci potrebbe essere musica e voce migliore per descriverlo. Immenso. .
Si passa a "Lilac Wine", cover scritta da Jack Shelton, e qui Jeff mette i brividi per come interpreta la canzone, forse meglio che nella sua prestazione da studio con Grace. Lascia l'ascoltatore incredulo e senza parole quando termina.. La quinta è "What Will You Say", pezzo ipnotico e cantilenante, dove, come al solito, tutti gli strumenti crescono mano a mano che la canzone si evolve, esplodendo insieme a Jeff in un acuto lancinante e inverosimile. Molto bella e coinvolgente.. "Last Goodbye" è eseguita con una maestria e una tecnica sopraffina, Jeff gioca con le note e il passaggio di registro con una maestria tale da rabbrividire. Tutti gli vanno dietro e seguono le note della sua chitarra magica come se fossero fusi insieme a lui in uno strumento unico, non sono più una band di elementi distinti, sono una persona sola..
"Eternal life" inizia con una chitarra distorta che ricorda i virtuosismi di Hendrix, per poi partire con il pezzo più elettrico, grunge se vogliamo, dell'artista. Bellissima, eseguita un tono sopra l'originale, tiratissima.. La voce è sporca volutamente, Lui riusciva anche a fare questo con le sue corde, arrochirla e dandole un pò di vetriolo, per poi pulirla e tornare a gorgheggiare sulle stelle, rimbalzando da una all'altra.. Bravissimi i musicisti, soprattutto il batterista che qui dà il meglio di sé.. Arriviamo a "Grace" e che dire? L'arpeggio iniziale incastrato delle due chitarre è sublime, tutto scorre come un fiume che poco a poco, per la pioggia battente, si ingrossa e straripa dagli argini, devastante per intensità di esecuzione. Perfetta. L'acuto finale, sebbene non lungo come in studio (ma la nota raggiunta è la medesima..) lascia increduli e quello che fa dopo ancor di più. Si chiude con un vocalizzo da usignolo che sinceramente, dopo aver usato in quel modo la voce, sembra impossibile.. Ma Lui riesce dove l'umana natura si ferma..
"Moodswing Whiskey" è il pezzo più strano del disco ma riempie bene questo live. "The Man That Got Away", splendida voce e chitarra, e "Kanga-Roo", con finale da brividi, sono due cover che Jeff esegue magistralmente e senza sbavature. Il disco termina con "Hallelujah/I Know It's Over", commovente, praticamente quasi identica alla versione incisa su 'Grace', tranne che nel finale, non necessita di commenti, ma va solo ascoltata con il cuore..
12 pezzi, quanto dovrebbe durare un disco.. Dodici gemme che fanno capire dove è arrivato e dove sarebbe potuto arrivare questo piccolo ma immenso uomo con la sua voce e la sua chitarra se non l'avesse preso il Wolf River.
Addio Jeff, anima pura dalla voce d'angelo, gioca e canta con tuo padre Tim, finalmente vi siete riabbracciati e starete insieme per sempre anche se non in questo mondo..
Elenco tracce e testi
01 Dream Brother (08:48)
There is a child sleeping near his twin
The pictures go wild in a rush of wind
That dark angel he is shuffling in
Watching over them with his black feather wings unfurled
The love you lost with her skin so fair
Is free with the wind in her butterscotch hair
Her green eyes bloom goodbyes
With her head in her hands and your kiss on the lips of another
Dream brother
With your tears scattered round the world.
Don't be like the one who made me so old
Don't be like the one who left behind his name
'Cause they're waiting for you like I waited for mine
And nobody ever came
I feel afraid and I call your name
I love your voice and your dance insane
I hear your words and I know your pain
Your head in your hands and her kiss on the lips of another
Your eyes to the ground
And the world spinning round forever
Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over
03 Mojo Pin (06:06)
I'm lying in my bed, the blanket is warm
This body will never be safe from harm
Still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal
Touch my skin to keep me whole
If only you'd come back to me
If you laid at my side
Wouldn't need no mojo pin
To keep me satisfied
Don't want to weep for you
I don't want to know
I'm blind and tortured
The white horses flow
The memories fire
The rhythms fall slow
Black beauty, I love you so
Precious, precious silver and gold
And pearls in oyster's flesh
Drop down we two to serve and pray to love
Born again from the rhythm
screaming down from heaven
Ageless, ageless and I'm there in your arms
Don't want to weep for you
I don't want to know
I'm blind and tortured
The white horses flow
The memories fire
The rhythms fall slow
Black beauty, I love you so
The welts of your scorn, my love, give me more
Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more
Well it's you I've waited my life to see
It's you I've searched so hard for
Don't want to weep for you
I don't want to know
I'm blind and tortured
The white horses flow
The memories fire
The rhythms fall slow
Black beauty, I love you so
04 Lilac Wine (05:19)
I lost myself on a cool damp night
I gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree
I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in its recipe
It makes me see what I want to see
And be what I want to be
When I think more than I want to think
Do things I never should do
I drink much more that I ought to drink
Because it brings me back you
Lilac wine
Is sweet and heady
Like my love
Lilac wine
I feel unsteady
Like my love
Listen to me
I cannot see clearly
Isn't that she
Coming to me
Nearly here
Lilac wine
Is sweet and heady
Where's my love
Lilac wine
I feel unsteady,
Where's my love
Listen to me
Why is everything so hazy
Isn't that she
Or am I just going crazy, dear?
Lilac wine
I feel unready for my love
Feel unready
For my love
05 What Will You Say (07:34)
It's been such a long time
And I was just a child then
What will you say
When you see my face?
Time feels like it's flown away
The days just pass and fade away
What will you say
When they take my place?
It's funny now
I just don't feel like I'm a man
What will you say
When you see my face?
My face...
Mother dear, the world's gone cold
No one cares about love anymore
What will you say
When you see my face?
Father do you hear me?
Do you know me?
Do you even care?
What will you say
When they take my place?
My heart can't take this anymore
What will you say
When you see my face?
When you see my,
See my face...
I can feel your time crawling
To a slow end
I can feel my time crawling
To a slow end...
Mother dear, the world's gone cold
No one cares about love anymore
What will you say
When you see my face?
Father do you hear me?
Do you know me?
Did you even care?
What will you say
When you take my place?
Well it's so funny now
I just don't feel like I'm a man
What will you say?
06 Last Goodbye (04:58)
This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
But it's over
Just hear this and then I'll go
You gave me more to live for
More than you'll ever know
This is our last embrace
Must I dream and always see your face
Why can't we overcome this wall
Baby, maybe it is just because I didn't know you at all
Kiss me
Please kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, babe
And not consolation
You know it makes me so angry
'Cause I know that in time
I'll only make you cry
This is our last goodbye
Did you say "No, this can't happen to me"
And did you rush to your phone to call?
Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind saying
"Maybe... you didn't know him at all"
You didn't know him at all
You didn't know
The bells out in the church tower chime
Burning clues into this heart of mine
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memory
Offer signs that it's over
It's over
07 Eternal Life (05:58)
Eternal life is now on my trail
Got my red glitter coffin, man
Just need one last nail
While all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games
There's a flaming red horizon that screams our names
And as your fantasies are broken in two
Did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you?
You better turn around
And blow your kiss hello to life eternal, Angel
Racist everyman, what have you done?
Man, you've made a killer of your unborn son
Crown my fear your king at the point of a gun
All I want to do is love everyone
And as your fantasies are broken in two
Did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you?
You better turn around
And blow your kiss hello to life eternal
Oh
There's no time for hatred
Only questions
Where is love?
Where is happiness?
What is life?
Where is peace?
When will I find the strength to bring me release?
And tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said?
Man, It sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead
And I've got a message for you and your twisted hell
You better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye
To life eternal Angel
Angel
08 Grace (05:38)
There's the moon asking to stay
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
Well it's my time coming
I'm not afraid to die
My fading voice sings of love
But she cries to the clicking of time
Of time
Wait in the fire
Wait in the fire
And she weeps on my arm
Walking to the bright lights in sorrow
Oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow
Oh my love
And the rain is falling and I believe
My time has come
It reminds me of the pain
I might leave
Leave behind
Wait in the fire
Wait in the fire
And I feel them drown my name
So easy to know and forget with this kiss
I'm not afraid to go but it goes so slow
Wait in the fire
Wait in the fire
Wait in the fire
Wait in the fire
Wait in the fire
Wait in the fire
09 Moodswing Whiskey (05:36)
Mood swing whiskey
Drank it all in the morning
Waiting for the dark to move in
Sitting in my step-sister's kitchen
Horseflies on the window sill
Eyes trained on the lemon king
And wishing it were a gun
I'm thinking of our wedding rings
Trapped inside the heater
Spring water on the floor of this
Sex starved room
The nightmare's fires burn
The waves of bliss
I tried to stop it with my hand
I was lost in the kiss
With you
Mood swing whiskey
Your bliss, the actress,
Bliss, the assassin
Bliss, the abyss
Did a crazy shot of whiskey
In about zero to sixty
All i could see was the beer
I face the future with a drink in my right
Eyes to the sparkling gloom
Body naked, afraid, and amazed
Say boost me up to your junkyard paradise
Boost me up to your junkyard paradise
With a sweet-ass photo of you
She cheated, and she lied, and you stole her
Stung my tongue just like
Sweat from her shoulder
Ooh, mood swing whiskey
Your love, the destroyer
Love, the destroyer
Love, love...
Yes mood swing whiskey has my brain
Only you can break this chain
Are you here in my bed again
Can you hear my love again (x4)
Run down the subway station babe
I'm packing my rod
All and present histories erased
I am a punishing god
Mood swing whiskey
Yeah the leaves are made of
Messy things again
And i said this is all the headless acrobats
Faces crushed in the circus dust
All for the law of gravity
And the price of admission
Beautiful loser warm hearts have let you down
Beautiful loser warm hearts have left you
Oh no, you...
I think of mankind in quotation marks
Ever since i took a drink from you
This is for all the headless acrobats
Faces crushed in the circus dust
All in the name of gravity
And the price of admission
Beautiful loser while eyes have let you now
Beautiful loser while eyes have let you now
Cause you're beautiful
I think of mankind in quotation marks
Ever since I took a drink of you
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Di cappio al pollo
"Mystery White Boy è la raccolta-testimonianza delle esibizioni di Jeff Buckley per antonomasia."
La versione di 'Lover, You Should've Come Over' è probabilmente la migliore tra tutte le versioni live.
