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Analyzed: Agnes Obel / Aventine
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -1.00 dB -14.69 dB 2:30 01-Chord Left
DR7 -0.10 dB -9.10 dB 5:28 02-Fuel to Fire
DR7 -0.10 dB -9.27 dB 4:46 03-Dorian
DR8 -0.10 dB -9.08 dB 4:06 04-Aventine
DR9 -0.10 dB -10.39 dB 4:24 05-Run Cried The Crawling
DR13 -1.00 dB -16.23 dB 1:30 06-Tokka
DR6 -1.20 dB -9.61 dB 5:51 07-The Curse
DR8 -0.10 dB -10.24 dB 3:30 08-Pass Them By
DR8 -0.10 dB -9.68 dB 3:44 09-Words Are Dead
DR9 -0.10 dB -11.24 dB 1:57 10-Fivefold
DR9 -1.20 dB -11.60 dB 2:58 11-Smoke & Mirrors
DR7 -1.00 dB -10.90 dB 5:24 12-Under Giant Trees
DR8 -1.00 dB -11.41 dB 3:24 13-Arches
DR10 -1.00 dB -13.05 dB 3:23 14-September Song
DR9 -1.00 dB -11.54 dB 5:04 15-Run Cried The Crawling (Deezer Session)
DR8 -1.00 dB -11.80 dB 2:32 16-Chord Left (Deezer Session)
DR7 -1.00 dB -9.81 dB 5:07 17-Fuel to Fire (Deezer Session)
DR7 -1.00 dB -9.92 dB 4:28 18-Aventine (Deezer Session)
DR6 -1.00 dB -9.71 dB 4:10 19-Words Are Dead (Live)
DR8 -1.00 dB -11.39 dB 6:44 20-The Curse (Live)
DR7 -1.00 dB -10.67 dB 3:52 21-Dorian (Daniel Matz Rework)
DR7 -1.00 dB -10.25 dB 4:31 22-Fuel To Fire (David Lynch Remix)
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Number of tracks: 22
Official DR value: DR8
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1436 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Об исполнительнице (рус.) | About Artist (ru)
Агнес Обель
Агнес Обель (полное имя – Агнес Каролин Тааруп Обель; род. 28 октября 1980 г. в Копенгагене, Дания) – датская певица, композитор и автор песен, с 2006 года постоянно проживающая в Берлине. С раннего возраста девочка играла на фортепиано – именно это занятие раскрыло в ней талант к написанию песен. Еще в юношестве Агнес организовала группу Sohio в Копенгагене вместе с продюсером и музыкантом Элтоном Тиндером из Дании. Они работали вместе, пока каждый не начал сольную карьеру.
Дебютный альбом Агнес ‘Philharmonics’ вышел в 2010 году, обратив на себя внимание критиков и публики: пластинка приобрела статус «платиновой» в Дании, Бельгии и Франции. На датской церемонии Music Awards 2011 Агнес получила сразу пять премий: лучший альбом года, лучший поп-релиз года, лучший дебют года, лучшая певица года, лучший автор песен года. В сентябре 2013 года вышел второй альбом ‘Aventine’, а спустя еще три года – ‘Citizen of Glass’. Последний на сегодняшний день альбом Агнес Обель ‘Myopia’ увидел свет в феврале 2020 года на двух престижнейших лейблах – Blue Note и Deutsche Grammophon.
Агнес Обель поет приглушенным нежным голосом, задумчиво и спокойно парящим под аккомпанемент фортепиано, скрипок, виолончели, арфы. По признанию самой певицы, она не воспринимает себя как вокалиста, играющего на фортепиано. «Пение и игра на фортепиано для меня совершенно равнозначны. Они, может, и могут существовать друг от друга, но при этом очень между собою связаны. Можно назвать их двумя равнозначными голосами», – говорит Агнес. Меланхоличные композиции, словно появившиеся под влиянием саундтреков к фильмам Дэвида Линча и Альфреда Хичкока, чувственная красота мотивов, сродни мелодиям Эрика Сати и Клода Дебюсси, а также прекрасные аранжировки – все это делает творчество Агнес Обель неповторимым и легко узнаваемым. https://www.last.fm/ru/music/Agn%C3%A8s+Obel/+wiki
Об исполнительнице (англ.) | About Artist (en)
Agnes Obel
A Berlin-based, Danish-born singer/songwriter and classically trained pianist with an elegant and elastic voice, Agnes Obel's poised and melancholic chamber pop draws from the same atmosphere-heavy well as cinematic spellcasters like Antony & the Johnsons and Lisa Hannigan, but with a succinct aura of Scandinavian refinery. Her evocative blend of classical, pop, jazz, and electronic music found success in Europe on the strength of the platinum-selling Philharmonics and Aventine. Her ambitious 2016 release, Citizen of Glass, which introduced ghostly electronics, voice modulation, and a late-'20s monophonic synthesizer called a Trautonium into the mix, helped to establish her overseas as well.
Born Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel on October 28, 1980, she took up the piano at a very young age, honing her craft amidst the strains of Bartok and Chopin emanating from the fingers of her musician mother. She later drew inspiration from the work of Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson, and it was between those two worlds that her own sound began to emerge. Citing influences as diverse as PJ Harvey and Claude Debussy, and drawing comparisons to the likes Ane Brun, Eva Cassidy, and Joni Mitchell, Obel's 2010 debut, Philharmonics, was written (with the exception of a cover of John Cale's "I Keep a Close Watch"), performed and produced by the artist herself. Pure, austere, and remarkably poised, the pristine mix of instrumentals and atmospheric, melancholy balladry was both a critical and commercial success, especially in her native Denmark, where the record went double platinum. Composed, produced, arranged, and mixed by Obel herself at Chalk Wood Studios, 2013's impressionistic Aventine was another commercial success, charting in nine countries. For her much-anticipated third studio album, 2016's transparency-themed Citizen of Glass, Obel experimented with vintage synthesizers, as well as her own voice, which is at times heavily modulated. The LP earned Obel the Album of the Year award from the Independent Music Companies Association. In 2018 she inked a deal with Deutsche Grammophon and curated a Late Night Tales compilation. 2020 saw Obel release her fourth full-length effort, Myopia, which was entirely self-recorded.
James Christopher Monger, AMG https://www.highresaudio.com/en/album/view/tf7e2w/agnes-obel-myopia
Об альбоме (англ.) | About Album (en)
Info for Aventine
Aventine is the second studio album by Danish singer-songwriter Agnes Obel, released on 30 September 2013 by PIAS Recordings. The album received positive reviews from music critics. It was also a commercial success, charting inside the top 40 of the charts in nine countries.
Background
The album was announced in June 2013. The album was written, produced, arranged, and mixed by Obel herself at Chalk Wood Studios from 2012 to 2013. In January 2013, the album was given its final mixdown. The album features the instrumentation of Timber Timbre musician Mika Posen.
On Aventine, Agnes Obel commented : "I recorded everything quite closely, miking everything closely in a small room, with voices here, the piano here - everything is close to you. So it's sparse, but by varying the dynamic range of the songs I could create almost soundscapes. I was able to make something feel big with just these few instruments."
Promotion
To promote the album, Obel streamed Aventine online. On 4 September, Obel performed the album live at St Pancras Old Church for a select group of UK journalists and music industry members. On 17 September, Obel opened for Ludovico Einaudi at the iTunes Festival and her performance was recorded and released as an EP titled iTunes Festival: London 2013. In October, Obel appeared on France 24 to discuss the album.
The album was preceded by the single "The Curse" in August 2013 with the music video being directed by Alex Brüel Flagstad. Obel recorded a live version of the song in Berlin for KCRW.
Reception
Aventine received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 74, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 10 reviews.
James Skinner, in The Quietus, writes : "Ultimately, Aventine is a triumph of carefully sustained mood; of a sadness that is not so much overbearing as it beautiful, and one that lingers in the silences between listens of this unusual, unusually compelling record."
Caroline Sullivan, from The Guardian, wrote, "The lyrics are impressionistic sketches (…) suggesting she saved the real firepower for the exquisite arrangements : sculpting strings and piano into beautifully melancholy ripples. Like Ane Brun and Seventh Tree-era Alison Goldfrapp, Obel is exceedingly good at conveying weariness and disorientation through sound (…). A wonderful autumn album."
Alice Parker, from Contact Music, agreed: "This album is simply stunning and, if possible, even more captivating than her first album. 'Aventine' is nothing short of mesmerising and it is clear that this 'difficult second album' will live up to expectation and could quite possibly surpass the success of its predecessor."[
Deluxe version
The deluxe version was released on 6 October 2014. It features three new songs, live versions from Berlin and Paris, and two remixes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aventine_(album)
Состав | Artists
Vocals, Piano, Keyboards, Synth, Beats, Written-By, Recorded By, Producer, Mixed By – Agnes Obel
with
Cello, Violin – Anne Müller
Guitar – Robert Kondorossi
Harp – Gillian Fleetwood
Violin, Viola – Mika Posen
Cello – Charlotte Danhier (13)
Flute – Marlis Gnirke (21)
Remix, Producer, Mixed By, Drum Programming, Drums, Synth – Daniel Matz (21)
Remix – David Lynch (22, Producer – David Lynch, Dean Hurley)