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Jackie Leven|Defending Ancient Springs

Defending Ancient Springs

Jackie Leven

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Jackie Leven's production and songwriting ambitions have been on a tear since the release of The Mystery of Love Is Greater Than the Mystery of Death, and have grown wilder with every release. Poetic experimentalism, sonic trickery, and musical juxtapositions that would never pan out in anybody else's work seem to flow like whiskey down a drunk's throat in his. On Defending Ancient Springs, he's taken his greatest chance. Formerly it was him covering "I Say a Little Prayer," a song firmly identified with two female singers (Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin), and even then he placed it at the end of the album. But here, he has taken an American classic and attempted a straight reading of it with the most unlikely of partners. The song is the Righteous Brothers' classic "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," which was also done justice by Hall and Oates (who were also from Philly). But Leven decides to cover it as his opening track with a slightly different arrangement, using a few Celtic folk instruments in the mix and singing it in duet with none other than Pere Ubu's David Thomas. And that they try it straight is the wildest thing -- is a work of genius or a sincere miss? After this rather strange beginning -- even for Leven, who once opened an album with a track called "Young Male Suicide Blessed by Invisible Woman" -- the album picks up where Night Lilies left off. Defending Ancient Springs seems plow the earth of memory more deeply, turning it into a ravine in places, or perhaps a grave. On the song "Single Father," Leven reiterates the experience of becoming a father at 15, the harshness of the times, and the heartbreak of losing his son to Social Services (boy and father turned out all right and apparently bear each other no grudges). Leven's Celtic blues open themselves wide on "Paris Blues," with Thomas guesting again. Sound effects sear themselves onto the lyrics in these songs, which stretch the large production values -- even by Leven's standards -- to the limit. The industrial sounds of train yards and foundries open the title track, and a strange opera song used on Fairytales for Hardmen, which gives way to some distorted electric guitar, deep bottom bass, and thunderous tom toms. The guitar crunch combined with the well-placed angling of a mandolin in the background anchor "Defending Ancient Springs" well to be the solid rock anthem it is. While sadness, grief, and pain are part and parcel of every record by Leven, so is the willingness to be forthright and the belief in love as its own reward. This is held true in the gorgeous "I Saw My Love Walk Into the Clouds," where Leven's protagonist challenges the listener to enrich his life: "Tell me about it/How you lost your heart/I want to hear you shout it/How it is you lost your dear heart." On the very next track the album moves from a curious investigation into memory and the various ways the human heart survives its trials to an avant pop/soul tune called "Hand Is Pale With Holy Kisses," a poem by Marina Tsvetayeva; it's a prayer that informs the rest of Leven's Defending Ancient Springs and pulls its varying themes, messages, and music styles together. Admittedly, this is Leven's most difficult album. Its power is spread out over the course of the record, portioned rather than put in your face, and its curious production and song selection make it difficult at first to hear the big picture. But it comes, and when it does, you will wonder how you ever missed it in the first place. Another winner.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo

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You've Lost That Loving Feeling
00:04:55

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Single Father
00:05:33

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Paris Blues
00:06:23

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Defending Ancient Springs
00:07:41

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The Working Man's Love Song
00:04:41

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I Saw My Love Walk into Clouds
00:04:13

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Hand Is Pale with Holy Kisses
00:06:24

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8
Your Winter Days
00:03:57

Jackie Leven, MainArtist

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The Keys to the Forest
00:05:32

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Morbid Sky
00:06:32

Jackie Leven, MainArtist

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Approfondimenti

Jackie Leven's production and songwriting ambitions have been on a tear since the release of The Mystery of Love Is Greater Than the Mystery of Death, and have grown wilder with every release. Poetic experimentalism, sonic trickery, and musical juxtapositions that would never pan out in anybody else's work seem to flow like whiskey down a drunk's throat in his. On Defending Ancient Springs, he's taken his greatest chance. Formerly it was him covering "I Say a Little Prayer," a song firmly identified with two female singers (Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin), and even then he placed it at the end of the album. But here, he has taken an American classic and attempted a straight reading of it with the most unlikely of partners. The song is the Righteous Brothers' classic "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," which was also done justice by Hall and Oates (who were also from Philly). But Leven decides to cover it as his opening track with a slightly different arrangement, using a few Celtic folk instruments in the mix and singing it in duet with none other than Pere Ubu's David Thomas. And that they try it straight is the wildest thing -- is a work of genius or a sincere miss? After this rather strange beginning -- even for Leven, who once opened an album with a track called "Young Male Suicide Blessed by Invisible Woman" -- the album picks up where Night Lilies left off. Defending Ancient Springs seems plow the earth of memory more deeply, turning it into a ravine in places, or perhaps a grave. On the song "Single Father," Leven reiterates the experience of becoming a father at 15, the harshness of the times, and the heartbreak of losing his son to Social Services (boy and father turned out all right and apparently bear each other no grudges). Leven's Celtic blues open themselves wide on "Paris Blues," with Thomas guesting again. Sound effects sear themselves onto the lyrics in these songs, which stretch the large production values -- even by Leven's standards -- to the limit. The industrial sounds of train yards and foundries open the title track, and a strange opera song used on Fairytales for Hardmen, which gives way to some distorted electric guitar, deep bottom bass, and thunderous tom toms. The guitar crunch combined with the well-placed angling of a mandolin in the background anchor "Defending Ancient Springs" well to be the solid rock anthem it is. While sadness, grief, and pain are part and parcel of every record by Leven, so is the willingness to be forthright and the belief in love as its own reward. This is held true in the gorgeous "I Saw My Love Walk Into the Clouds," where Leven's protagonist challenges the listener to enrich his life: "Tell me about it/How you lost your heart/I want to hear you shout it/How it is you lost your dear heart." On the very next track the album moves from a curious investigation into memory and the various ways the human heart survives its trials to an avant pop/soul tune called "Hand Is Pale With Holy Kisses," a poem by Marina Tsvetayeva; it's a prayer that informs the rest of Leven's Defending Ancient Springs and pulls its varying themes, messages, and music styles together. Admittedly, this is Leven's most difficult album. Its power is spread out over the course of the record, portioned rather than put in your face, and its curious production and song selection make it difficult at first to hear the big picture. But it comes, and when it does, you will wonder how you ever missed it in the first place. Another winner.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo

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