Remember Us To Life (Deluxe) Regina Spektor

• 1Bleeding Heart03:58
• 2Older and Taller03:04
• 3Grand Hotel03:04
• 4Small Bill Dollar03:33
• 5Black and White03:49
• 6The Light04:56
• 7The Trapper and the Furrier04:24
• 8Tornadoland03:48
• 9Obsolete06:37
• 10Sellers of Flowers04:00
• 11The Visit04:24
• 12New Year (Bonus Track)05:28
• 13The One Who Stayed and the One Who Left (Bonus Track)04:58
• 14End of Thought (Bonus Track)03:19
• Total Runtime59:22

Info zu Remember Us To Life (Deluxe)

Vier Jahre sind seit dem letzten Album "What We Saw From The Cheap Seats" von Regina Spektor vergangenen – und die Musikerin hatte triftige Gründe für die Pause, denn sie wurde zum ersten Mal Mutter. Nun jedoch darf man sich auf ein neues Album der 36-Jährigen freuen: Am 30. September erscheint "Remember Us To Life", das insgesamt siebte Werk der 36-Jährigen, das ab sofort vorbestellt werden kann. Schon jetzt gibt es dann den Song "Bleeding Heart" als Download, den ihr unten anhören könnt.

Anders als bei den Vorgängeralben, bei denen Regina Spektor Songs aufnahm, die sie im Laufe der Karriere schrieb, besteht "Remember Us To Life" ausschließlich aus neu komponierten und geschriebenen Tracks. Nicht ganz unschuldig daran ist ihr erstes Kind, dass sie 2014 gemeinsam mit ihrem Ehemann, dem Musiker Jack Dishel alias Only Son, willkommen hieß. Regina Spektor fand während und nach der Schwangerschaft genug Zeit, um sich in einen Schreibprozess zu begeben. "Ich habe in meiner Schwangerschaft mehr Kunst gemacht und war einfach wahnsinnig inspiriert", so die in New York City lebende Künstlerin, die in der Sowjetunion geboren wurde und dort bis zum Alter von 9 Jahren lebte.

Das Album wurde aufgenommen in den The Village Studios in Los Angeles und produziert von Leo Abrahams (David Byrne/Brian Eno, Frightened Rabbit, Paolo Nutini). Über die Zusammenarbeit mit Abrahams sagt Regina Spektor: "Er ist ein unglaublich netter und talentierter Musiker und Mensch! Ich bin sehr dankbar, dass ich mit ihm arbeiten durfte."

„Regina Spektor has become her generation's Joni Mitchell — a singer-songwriter who nail-guns emotional trusts between wisecracks.“ (Rolling Stone)

“Her lyrical pop style is personal, poignant, and wise, and never lacking in lighthearted moments.” (The New Yorker)

Regina Spektor was born in Moscow on February 18, 1980 before the Soviet Union collapsed. Her mother taught music, while her father was a violist and photographer. Regina began learning to play piano at the age of 6, practicing her skill using a Petrof piano given by her grandfather to her mother. When the Soviet Union ruler Mikhail Gorbachev began his policy of perestroika in 1989, she and her parents immigrated to Bronx, New York City, and started a new life there. "We had to sell the piano because we weren't allowed to bring anything foreign-made out of Russia," she recalled. "It was considered Soviet property. I was so sad."

Lucky for Regina, she got Manhattan School of Music professor, Sonia Vargas, as her teacher. "She ended up being my teacher until I was 17. The Japanese have a proverb: whenever the student is ready, the teacher appears. In a lot of ways, that's how my life has been, there's been this kind of harmony with things - I wrote a few songs, then someone heard me and offered me a show; I decided I was ready to tour and then I went on tour with the Strokes. It makes you live your whole life differently. You can't just sit around, getting angry because you think you're ready. If you were really ready, things would be happening," she said.

On what kind of songs she usually wrote, Regina said, "I try to write songs the way a short story writer writes stories. I always thought, 'Why can't I write a song from the point of view of a man or a criminal or an old woman?' Obviously some of it comes from personal things, but it's so much more fun when a concept or idea pops into my head and then I pull on it and out comes this thing that I never expected."

Regina completed her studies at the Conservatory of Music of Purchase College in 2001. Becoming a favorite among the students at the Purchase musical community, Regina had a chance to team up with jazz bassist Chris Kuffner to record her first collection, "11:11", which was released as an indie record. The next year, she followed it up with another indie studio project called "Songs".

All her hard work was finally paid off as her talent was spotted by executives in Sire Records. Regina was signed to the label to release her third studio album "Soviet Kitsch" in 2004. Two years later, she returned to studio for her fourth set "Begin to Hope". Through the fourth effort, she made Billboard Hot 200 debut at number 20. In 2009, she dropped a new album "Far". It sold more than 50,000 copies in its first week, and peaked at number 3 on Billboard Hot 200. (Source: AceShowbiz.com)

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