Time: 45:13
Size: 103.5 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2017
Art: Front
[2:59] 1. College
[3:32] 2. Discount Records
[4:57] 3. Picture Him Happy (Sisyphus Goes To Work)
[4:01] 4. I Might Be Wrong
[4:41] 5. Too Much Too Late (What Mose Said)
[3:24] 6. Shaboogie
[2:50] 7. Faking It
[2:56] 8. Thank God For The F Train
[4:43] 9. Another Old Bull
[3:53] 10. Big Brother
[3:58] 11. Who Are You
[3:14] 12. Was
"With the title track, Ben Sidran delivers one of the most insightful songs in a career full of them; in it, he rearranges the paradigm to suggest how we might buck up against situations that seem hopeless. His timing couldn't be better. His stylistic mentor, the late Mose Allison, would be proud." ~Neil Tesser
PICTURE HIM HAPPY is a response to the saying that our music is made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions: you often can’t affect what happens but you can determine how you respond to it. It’s a record that’s right on time. The central image is that of Sisyphus, the mythical man doomed to push the same rock up the same hill for eternity. French philosopher Albert Camus suggested that given the similarity between the life of Sisyphus and our lives today, the only reasonable response is to try to imagine him happy – hence the title of this project. We live in hard, frustrating times – perhaps we always have – and now more than ever, we need to turn to the music to make this hill we climb bearable.
PICTURE HIM HAPPY is a response to the saying that our music is made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions: you often can’t affect what happens but you can determine how you respond to it. It’s a record that’s right on time. The central image is that of Sisyphus, the mythical man doomed to push the same rock up the same hill for eternity. French philosopher Albert Camus suggested that given the similarity between the life of Sisyphus and our lives today, the only reasonable response is to try to imagine him happy – hence the title of this project. We live in hard, frustrating times – perhaps we always have – and now more than ever, we need to turn to the music to make this hill we climb bearable.
Picture Him Happy
Thanks a lot Giullia !!!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Giulia!!!!
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