[2019-11-15] Joe Henry "The Gospel According To Water" (EarMusic)

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14199

Description
Recording artist, songwriter and 4 time grammy winning producer Joe Henry returns with his 15th studio album as a solo act.

Recorded in just two days in June 2019, and fairly by accident as the intent was to record demos of thirteen new songs.

With only a handful of friends playing in support, Joe entered the studio and tore through these songs with determination and abandon, then went home. The next day he listened and understood that something had transpired that was more than he had bargained for; that the songs as recorded sparked an ember that somehow remained bright and alive before him, moving beyond any sense of expectation he may have held.

The songs were heard as complete and vividly so; the casual circumstances had not limited his expression but in fact liberated him from the cloying aim for posterity that can make weighty any session—and landed him instead in a place both unencumbered by the past and unattached to futures.

These recordings are raw and wirey and spare because the songs insisted they be. In Joe’s mind, these are as “produced”––as anything he's touched, as well as being deeply and fundamentally romantic: accordingly in love with life.

Tracklist
1. Famine Walk
2. The Gospel According To Water
3. Mule
4. Orson Welles
5. Green Of The Afternoon
6. In Time For Tomorrow
7. The Fact Of Love
8. Book Of Common Prayer
9. Bloom
10. Gates Of Prayer Cemetery #2
11. Salt And Sugar
12. General Tzu Names The Planets For His Children
13. Choir Boy

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X3817NW/?tag=imwan-20

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14199

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Joe Henry unveils his new video “3'40"”, directed by Jacob Blickenstaff and created to accompany the song “Bloom”—the first offering from his new album The Gospel According To Water.

“I swore off—and some time ago—the notion of music videos as they came to be known,” says Henry. “It always being a perilous proposition to wed images for promotional purposes to music—the former meaning to assign easy and unified experience to consumers; while music itself finding its resonance and longevity to its ability to be shape-shifting and ever evolving. But I find I have no issue standing with and before you as you listen. And in acknowledgement of Warhol’s infamous “screen tests,” I offer now my near-unflinching gaze: in living color, and almost life-like. It’s my way of owning this work in all its wiry and unveiled splendor; with love and squalor.”

[2019-11-15] Joe Henry "The Gospel According To Water" (EarMusic)

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