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Commencing with a hymn-like cover of John Cale's "Andalucia" -- the always inventive Suzuki method-trained violinist would never deign to make a traditional Christmas album -- Hark! sees Andrew Bird embracing both the joy and the wistfulness of the holiday. Essentially a full-length version of the 2019 EP of the same name, the homespun and heartfelt 13-song set of standards, covers, and originals would make an excellent soundtrack for a yuletide Wes Anderson film -- it's like a big, awkward indie-folk hug. Bird contributed a pair of lovely originals to the initial EP, "Alabaster" and "Night's Falling," but it's the album's third self-penned offering, "Christmas in April," that served as the impetus for Hark's expansion. Written and recorded in the early days of the 2020 pandemic, the lonesome waltz paints a picture of uncertainty ("Oh, my love, when will you know if we can meet under the mistletoe") and longing ("Fits and starts, upset applecarts, conspiring to keep us apart"), but does so with the sanguinity of the season. Bird adds some sonic levity to John Prine's "Souvenirs," another song that laments the passing of time," by dispensing with the folksy cadence of the original and administering a bit of '70s country swagger. He goes full cocktail hour on delightful renderings of the Vince Guaraldi Trio classics "Christmas Is Coming" and "Skating," adding a bit of Quintette du Hot Club de France-inspired swing to the proceedings, and his whistled take on the carol "O Holy Night" is both charmingly quirky and surprisingly moving. In allowing the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future to converge, Bird has crafted an extremely likeable holiday record that's sad, sweet, sincere, occasionally silly, and reliably idiosyncratic.
© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
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Mike Viola, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Bird, Producer, Violin, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Hampton, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - John Davies Cale, ComposerLyricist - Travis Pavur, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2020 Wegawam Music Co.
Tyler Chester, Drums, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Pete Min, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Bird, Producer, Violin, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Alan Hampton, Bass Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ted Poor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Madison Cunningham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Travis Pavur, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2019 Wegawam Music Co.
Mike Viola, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rennie Sparks, ComposerLyricist - Brett Sparks, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Bird, Producer, Violin, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jimbo Mathus, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Travis Pavur, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2020 Wegawam Music Co.
Mike Viola, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Bird, Producer, Violin, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Alan Hampton, Bass Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ted Poor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Travis Pavur, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2020 Wegawam Music Co.
Mike Viola, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - John Prine, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Bird, Producer, Violin, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Hampton, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Ted Poor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Travis Pavur, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2020 Wegawam Music Co.
Adolphe Adam, ComposerLyricist - Pete Min, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeff Parker, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Andrew Bird, Producer, Violin, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Hampton, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Ted Poor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Travis Pavur, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2019 Wegawam Music Co.
Mike Viola, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Franz Schubert, Composer - Andrew Bird, Producer, Violin, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Travis Pavur, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2020 Wegawam Music Co.
Tyler Chester, Percussion, Celesta, AssociatedPerformer - Pete Min, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Bird, Producer, Violin, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Alan Hampton, Bass Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ted Poor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Madison Cunningham, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Travis Pavur, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2019 Wegawam Music Co.
Mike Viola, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Bird, Producer, Violin, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Hampton, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Travis Pavur, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alan Sherwood Hampton, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2020 Wegawam Music Co.
Vince Guaraldi, ComposerLyricist - Pete Min, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeff Parker, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Andrew Bird, Producer, Violin, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Hampton, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Ted Poor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Travis Pavur, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2019 Wegawam Music Co.
Irving Berlin, ComposerLyricist - Pete Min, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Bird, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Travis Pavur, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2019 Wegawam Music Co.
Vince Guaraldi, ComposerLyricist - Pete Min, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeff Parker, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Andrew Bird, Producer, Violin, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Hampton, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Ted Poor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Travis Pavur, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2019 Wegawam Music Co.
Mike Viola, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Robert Burns, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Bird, Producer, Violin, Vocals, Recording Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Hampton, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Travis Pavur, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2020 Wegawam Music Co.
Album review
Commencing with a hymn-like cover of John Cale's "Andalucia" -- the always inventive Suzuki method-trained violinist would never deign to make a traditional Christmas album -- Hark! sees Andrew Bird embracing both the joy and the wistfulness of the holiday. Essentially a full-length version of the 2019 EP of the same name, the homespun and heartfelt 13-song set of standards, covers, and originals would make an excellent soundtrack for a yuletide Wes Anderson film -- it's like a big, awkward indie-folk hug. Bird contributed a pair of lovely originals to the initial EP, "Alabaster" and "Night's Falling," but it's the album's third self-penned offering, "Christmas in April," that served as the impetus for Hark's expansion. Written and recorded in the early days of the 2020 pandemic, the lonesome waltz paints a picture of uncertainty ("Oh, my love, when will you know if we can meet under the mistletoe") and longing ("Fits and starts, upset applecarts, conspiring to keep us apart"), but does so with the sanguinity of the season. Bird adds some sonic levity to John Prine's "Souvenirs," another song that laments the passing of time," by dispensing with the folksy cadence of the original and administering a bit of '70s country swagger. He goes full cocktail hour on delightful renderings of the Vince Guaraldi Trio classics "Christmas Is Coming" and "Skating," adding a bit of Quintette du Hot Club de France-inspired swing to the proceedings, and his whistled take on the carol "O Holy Night" is both charmingly quirky and surprisingly moving. In allowing the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future to converge, Bird has crafted an extremely likeable holiday record that's sad, sweet, sincere, occasionally silly, and reliably idiosyncratic.
© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:43:51
- Main artists: Andrew Bird
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Loma Vista Recordings
- Genre: Comedy/Other Ambient/New Age Christmas Music
© 2020 Wegaman Music Co. ℗ 2020 Wegaman Music Co.
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