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In the early 2010s, Canadian born alt-country singer/songwriter Lindi Ortega had had enough. Discouraged with not being able to make a living despite having charting records, Juno and Grammy nominations, critical acclaim, and endless touring, she chucked everything: Nashville, her label, her agent, and her manager, and moved to Calgary. She got married and, inspired by her husband and new manager, tried again, resulting in 2017's acclaimed Til the Goin' Gets Gone EP.
Liberty, her cinematic seventh album, is the story of that journey. It's a concept record about a journey through darkness to light. Its songs are thematically linked as stages in transition. Inspired by the spaghetti western scores of Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai, and Nico Fidenco, and the unruly movies of Quentin Tarantino, she returned to Nashville to work with producer Skylar Wilson -- the two bonded over Tarantino's films -- and wrote or co-wrote songs with him, John Paul White, Bruce Wallace, and Aaron Raitiere. She also enlisted Steelism (Spencer Cullum, Jr. on pedal steel and slide, and guitarist Jeremy Fetzer), a Nashville duo whose predominantly instrumental work gravitates toward a widescreen western style of country. The three sections of the uncharacteristically ballad-heavy Liberty are held together by Steelism's windswept desert theme "Through the Dust." "Afraid of the Dark," co-written with White, offers fingerpicked nylon string and electric slide guitars, upright bass, and tom-toms; the grain in Ortega's voice offers a tale of possession by darkness through self-loathing and depression. A whining steel guitar frames her reverbed singing in a spacious Western, desert-tinged soundscape with the baritone and soprano Liberty Choir chorus adding to the atmosphere. The traces of her rockabilly style pop up in "You Ain't Foolin' Me," which addresses two-faced acquaintances masquerading as friends amid rumbling drums, B-3 organ, and distorted guitars, as well as a lovely mariachi interlude. The other White co-write is "Nothing's Impossible," a lilting, deeply sad honky tonk ballad that could have been produced by a young Owen Bradley. First single "The Comeback Kid (written with Wilson) draws on Marty Robbins, Leon Payne, and Charlie Feathers in a yarn about a character who gets shot but doesn't die, and who's now ready to haunt her would-be assassins: "...You took my life and wrecked it/But I've been resurrected...." (Think Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.) "Forever Blue" is the first song on the journey to the light. Transcendence and transformation are hinted at first in the ethereal "In the Clear," co-written with Raitiere, and episodes of romantic love in "Pablo" and Lovers in Love" offer confirmation that our protagonist is on the right track. Her transition is completed in the languid title track and underscored by the album's lone cover, "Gracias a la Vida," by Chilean composer Violeta Parra; it's a bolero-cum-mariachi that simply and powerfully expresses gratitude for surviving the darkness and for life and its wonders. While Liberty is more often than not gentler in tone than Ortega's preceding albums, it is by far her most innovative and powerful, and stands as her masterwork thus far.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist - Last Gang Publishing/Ole Media Management [SOCAN/SESAC] / BMG Platinum Songs [BMI] / Shiny Happy Music [BMI] All Rights Administered by BMG Rights, MusicPublisher
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist - Last Gang Publishing/Ole Media Management [SOCAN/SESAC], MusicPublisher
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist - Last Gang Publishing/Ole Media Management [SOCAN/SESAC], MusicPublisher
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist - Last Gang Publishing/Ole Media Management [SOCAN/SESAC] / BMG Platinum Songs [BMI] / Shiny Happy Music [BMI] All Rights Administered by BMG Rights, MusicPublisher
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist - Last Gang Publishing/Ole Media Management [SOCAN/SESAC] / Catpad Music [SESAC], MusicPublisher
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist - Last Gang Publishing/Ole Media Management [SOCAN/SESAC], MusicPublisher
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist - Last Gang Publishing/Ole Media Management [SOCAN/SESAC], MusicPublisher
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist - Last Gang Publishing/Ole Media Management [SOCAN/SESAC] / © 2018 Super LCS Publishing [BMI] and Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. [BMI] All rights on behalf of itself and Super LCS Publishing administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., MusicPublisher
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist - Last Gang Publishing/Ole Media Management [SOCAN/SESAC], MusicPublisher
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist - Last Gang Publishing/Ole Media Management [SOCAN/SESAC] / © 2018 Super LCS Publishing [BMI] and Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. [BMI] All rights on behalf of itself and Super LCS Publishing administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., MusicPublisher
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist - Last Gang Publishing/Ole Media Management [SOCAN/SESAC] / Brucewallacemusic [BMI], MusicPublisher
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Lindi Ortega, Composer, MainArtist - Warner/Chappell De Argentina S.A.[SACEM] All rights administered by WB Music Corp, MusicPublisher
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
In the early 2010s, Canadian born alt-country singer/songwriter Lindi Ortega had had enough. Discouraged with not being able to make a living despite having charting records, Juno and Grammy nominations, critical acclaim, and endless touring, she chucked everything: Nashville, her label, her agent, and her manager, and moved to Calgary. She got married and, inspired by her husband and new manager, tried again, resulting in 2017's acclaimed Til the Goin' Gets Gone EP.
Liberty, her cinematic seventh album, is the story of that journey. It's a concept record about a journey through darkness to light. Its songs are thematically linked as stages in transition. Inspired by the spaghetti western scores of Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai, and Nico Fidenco, and the unruly movies of Quentin Tarantino, she returned to Nashville to work with producer Skylar Wilson -- the two bonded over Tarantino's films -- and wrote or co-wrote songs with him, John Paul White, Bruce Wallace, and Aaron Raitiere. She also enlisted Steelism (Spencer Cullum, Jr. on pedal steel and slide, and guitarist Jeremy Fetzer), a Nashville duo whose predominantly instrumental work gravitates toward a widescreen western style of country. The three sections of the uncharacteristically ballad-heavy Liberty are held together by Steelism's windswept desert theme "Through the Dust." "Afraid of the Dark," co-written with White, offers fingerpicked nylon string and electric slide guitars, upright bass, and tom-toms; the grain in Ortega's voice offers a tale of possession by darkness through self-loathing and depression. A whining steel guitar frames her reverbed singing in a spacious Western, desert-tinged soundscape with the baritone and soprano Liberty Choir chorus adding to the atmosphere. The traces of her rockabilly style pop up in "You Ain't Foolin' Me," which addresses two-faced acquaintances masquerading as friends amid rumbling drums, B-3 organ, and distorted guitars, as well as a lovely mariachi interlude. The other White co-write is "Nothing's Impossible," a lilting, deeply sad honky tonk ballad that could have been produced by a young Owen Bradley. First single "The Comeback Kid (written with Wilson) draws on Marty Robbins, Leon Payne, and Charlie Feathers in a yarn about a character who gets shot but doesn't die, and who's now ready to haunt her would-be assassins: "...You took my life and wrecked it/But I've been resurrected...." (Think Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.) "Forever Blue" is the first song on the journey to the light. Transcendence and transformation are hinted at first in the ethereal "In the Clear," co-written with Raitiere, and episodes of romantic love in "Pablo" and Lovers in Love" offer confirmation that our protagonist is on the right track. Her transition is completed in the languid title track and underscored by the album's lone cover, "Gracias a la Vida," by Chilean composer Violeta Parra; it's a bolero-cum-mariachi that simply and powerfully expresses gratitude for surviving the darkness and for life and its wonders. While Liberty is more often than not gentler in tone than Ortega's preceding albums, it is by far her most innovative and powerful, and stands as her masterwork thus far.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 00:46:26
- Main artists: Lindi Ortega
- Composer: Lindi Ortega
- Label: Shadowbox Music Inc.
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative en Indie
(C) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc. under exclusive license to Soundly Music (P) 2018 Shadowbox Music Inc.
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