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The Fiery Furnaces
Rehearsing My Choir
CD, 2005
| Herstellungsland | USA |
|---|---|
| Veröffentlichungs-Jahr | 2005 |
| Zeit | 58:41 |
| EAN-Nr. | 021823006024 |
| Label/Labelcode | nicht vorhanden |
| Plattenfirma/Katalog-Nr. | Rough Trade / RTA 30060-2 |
| Musikrichtung | Pop |
| Sammlungen | Gesucht | Flohmarkt |
|---|---|---|
| 0 (1 privat) | 0 | 0 |
Tracklist
I = Instrumental
L = Live
B = Bonustrack
H = Hidden Track
C = Coversong
| CD | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Track | Titel | Zeit | Besonderheit |
| Gesamtzeit | 58:41 | ||
| 1. | The Garfield El | 4:23 | |
| 2. | The Wayward Granddaughter | 6:23 | |
| 3. | A Candymaker's Knife In My Handbag | 4:48 | |
| 4. | We Wrote Letters Everyday | 4:17 | |
| 5. | Forty-Eight Twenty-Three Twenty-Second Street | 4:55 | |
| 6. | Guns Under The Counter | 4:31 | |
| 7. | Seven Silver Curses | 9:20 | |
| 8. | Though Let's Be Fair | 2:05 | |
| 9. | Slavin' Away | 6:54 | |
| 10. | Rehearsing My Choir | 5:43 | |
| 11. | Does It Remind You Of When? | 5:22 | |
Infos
ROUGH TRADE // (c) 2005 Rough Trade Records (p) 2005 The Fiery Furnaces Sublicensed to Rough Trade Records America Inc. under exclusive license from Rough Trade Records Limited
released October 24, 2005
Progressive Pop, Art Pop
Indie rock
concept album featuring Olga Sarantos, grandmother of the band's Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, narrating stories relating to her life (Olga Sarantos died on December 31, 2007)
press release notes / Matthew Friedberger, the songwriter and lyricist, gives a summary and explanation:
Dear Listener, Tracks 3 and 4 take place in the 40's; tracks 5 and 6 in the 20's and 30's; track 7 in the later 50's; track 8 starts in the very early 40's; track 9 goes back and forth; track 10 takes place in the early 60's; the final track takes place in the early 90's. Track 2 takes place a few years ago; track 1 took place when it was recorded. The action depicted in "The Wayward Granddaughter" and "Slavin' Away" does not include the character Olga Sarantos plays on the rest of the record. "Slavin' Away" imagines that character—the main character—fantasizing, a bit remotely, about the hard lot of other women. Now, I wouldn't guess that the Main Character actually thought the woman concerned was riding around in a Norton side-car and operating her own cottage industry trinket assembly/sweatshop: but it might have pleased her to picture it so. "The Wayward Granddaughter" is about a different Greek-American grandmother and her popular granddaughter ("Connie"). They're from Chicago's south suburbs and don't figure in the rest of the record; I wanted to have another (slightly younger) grandmother and family in there for perspective or comparison's sake, so to speak. Thank you for your time, Matthew Friedberger
released October 24, 2005
Progressive Pop, Art Pop
Indie rock
concept album featuring Olga Sarantos, grandmother of the band's Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, narrating stories relating to her life (Olga Sarantos died on December 31, 2007)
press release notes / Matthew Friedberger, the songwriter and lyricist, gives a summary and explanation:
Dear Listener, Tracks 3 and 4 take place in the 40's; tracks 5 and 6 in the 20's and 30's; track 7 in the later 50's; track 8 starts in the very early 40's; track 9 goes back and forth; track 10 takes place in the early 60's; the final track takes place in the early 90's. Track 2 takes place a few years ago; track 1 took place when it was recorded. The action depicted in "The Wayward Granddaughter" and "Slavin' Away" does not include the character Olga Sarantos plays on the rest of the record. "Slavin' Away" imagines that character—the main character—fantasizing, a bit remotely, about the hard lot of other women. Now, I wouldn't guess that the Main Character actually thought the woman concerned was riding around in a Norton side-car and operating her own cottage industry trinket assembly/sweatshop: but it might have pleased her to picture it so. "The Wayward Granddaughter" is about a different Greek-American grandmother and her popular granddaughter ("Connie"). They're from Chicago's south suburbs and don't figure in the rest of the record; I wanted to have another (slightly younger) grandmother and family in there for perspective or comparison's sake, so to speak. Thank you for your time, Matthew Friedberger