Tribe
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- Tribe
- 歌手：Luka Bloom
- 语种：英语
- 时间：2007年07月
- 公司：Cooking Vinyl
Tribe is the result of a year long collaboration between Luka and Simon O'Reilly, a wonderfully rich earthy sound.
Initially this seems to be ideal music for an autumn afternoon. Each day the sun goes lower across the March sky, leaves are starting to change colour, the world is at the cusp of seasonal upheaval; there's an air of expectancy as winter approaches.
In Sound, Luka Bloom sings: "Walking through the winter trees / Naked branches in the loss of leaves / Naked in the wind and rain / No escaping winter's waiting game." In his mellifluous voice and easy melodies, Bloom and his collaborator Simon O'Reilly are making music that feels like balm for the soul - low-key but substantial, sedate without being sedentary, with enough jagged edges on songs such as Change and Out There to provide gentle contrast. But under the surface this record pulses with notions of change and how it isn't generally easy.
Indeed, on the beautifully placid title track Bloom sings: "All around the side streets, needles look for veins where bullets found their mark in old rebellions..." Recorded in Dublin, this is Irish music that pays homage to its makers' roots in subtle ways, but mostly it's music for today. The spoken-word number Homeless and the dirge-like Lebanon hold out hope and despair in equal parts.