{"id":2097,"date":"2006-05-15T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T06:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.popdepresija.com\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2023-09-26T17:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T15:11:43","slug":"calexico-garden-ruin-city-slang-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.popdepresija.com\/?p=2097","title":{"rendered":"Calexico: Garden Ruin [City Slang, 2006]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postoje izvesna mi\u0161ljenja da je peti studijski album grupe Calexico lo\u0161a plo\u010da. Zamera joj se da nema dovoljno marija\u010da, da Joey Burns &#8220;suvi\u0161e peva&#8221;, da je <em>Feast Of Wire<\/em>\u00a0(2003) za klasu bolji i da ni\u0161ta nije dobro kao pesma\u00a0<em>Tulsa Telephone Book<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Divno je \u0161to je (poneki) bend i dalje u poziciji da pravi muziku za &#8220;svoju du\u0161u&#8221;, bez obzira \u0161ta neki njihovi fanovi misle. A Calexico su ovu plo\u010du napravili ba\u0161 za sebe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.popdepresija.com\/2013\/08\/Calexico_garden_ruin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" \/>Ohrabren ve\u010ditom idejom bubnjara Johna Convertina o\u00a0<em>menjanju<\/em> i improvizaciji, a pod jakim utiskom zajedni\u010dkih koncerata sa Wilco, Iron &amp; Wine i Neko Case, Burns je odlu\u010dio da njegova promena krene u smeru klasi\u010dnog singer-songwritera, a ostali \u010dlanovi benda spremno su stali iza, da mu u ostvarenju tog cilja pomognu.<\/p>\n<p>Rezultat je sve &#8211; samo ne\u00a0<em>Feast of Wire II<\/em>. Ako je publika do\u017eivljavala kolektivne orgazme tokom neslu\u0161ljivog albuma Wilco\u00a0<em>A Ghost Is Born<\/em>, neko pametan \u0107e sasvim sigurno analizirati odakle dolazi nezadovoljstvo sa\u00a0<em>Garden Ruin<\/em>. Ali sada, sve to nije previ\u0161e bitno. Kada bi bilo mogu\u0107e zanemariti Giant Sand, prethodnu karijeru Calexica, Younga, Dylana, Morriconea i sve druge ometaju\u0107e faktore, kakav bi bio odnos prema albumu <em>Garden Ruin<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 debitantskom ostvarenju mlade i uzbudljive grupe iz Arizone? Iz mog ugla \u2013 smatrao bih da je remek delo.<\/p>\n<p>Podaci govore da je Bizbi, gradi\u0107 na severoistoku Arizone, u 19. veku bio atraktivno rudarsko mesto. Danas je dom umetnika i turista. Pored toga \u0161to je 10 stepeni hladniji od Tusona, Calexico su Bizbi izabrali kao mesto postanka ovog albuma i zato \u0161to je atmosfera mnogo opu\u0161tenija nego u skoro milionskom Tusonu.<\/p>\n<p>Joey je ovde (u kafeu Roka) napisao\u00a0<em>Cruel<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Bisbee Blue<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Letter To Bowie Knife<\/em> i\u00a0<em>Roka<\/em>. Skice svih pesama kasnije su dovr\u0161avane u Tusonu i Bruklinu sa producentom JD Fosterom (Richard Buckner, Laura Cantrell, Marc Ribot, Richmond Fontaine). Pored Joeya i Johna, Calexico \u010dine truba\u010d Jacob Valenzuela (Arizona <em>nejtiv<\/em>), Nemci Martin Wenk i Volker Zander, te biv\u0161i \u010dlan kulta Lambchop, Paul Niehaus, na pedal-stil gitari.<\/p>\n<p>Joey Burns kao pesnik inspiraciju tra\u017ei na mnogim (neo\u010dekivanim) mestima:\u00a0<em>Cruel<\/em>\u00a0je prava Greenpeace himna oboga\u0107ena truba\u010dima,\u00a0<em>Yours and Mine<\/em>\u00a0je intimna skica o trenutku odluke,\u00a0<em>Bisbee Blue<\/em>\u00a0govori o izgubljenom smislu \u017eivota u gradu,\u00a0<em>Panic Open String<\/em>\u00a0je &#8220;sestra&#8221; pesme\u00a0<em>Blue Moon<\/em> kultnih Big Star \u2013 o &#8220;onom&#8221; trenutku kada zatvorenih o\u010diju ma\u0161tate o promeni i sebi u novom \u017eivotu, pustinjski saundskejpovi na\u00a0<em>Roka (Danza De La Muerte)<\/em>\u00a0jedina su veza sa &#8220;starim&#8221; Calexicom, a Eliot Smith kao da vreba iz prikrajka na\u00a0<em>Lucky Dime<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tokom celog albuma prisutna je izvesna politi\u010dka anga\u017eovanost, ali koja nijednog trenutka ne prelazi u banalnost. Burnsov glas sve vreme je u centru pa\u017enje. Mo\u0107an, sugestivan, zavodljiv i stra\u0161no &#8220;poznat&#8221;. Na razli\u010ditim pesmama, kroz njega &#8220;prolaze&#8221; mnogi heroji pro\u0161losti i sada\u0161nji underground trubaduri.<\/p>\n<p>Deset pesama pro\u0161lo je za ne\u0161to vi\u0161e od 35 minuta, a usput smo posetili Evropu i Ju\u017enu Ameriku, sanjali o boljem \u017eivotu i lamentirali o pro\u0161losti. Da li nas je sve to pripremilo za pesmu koja zatvara <em>Garden<\/em><em>\u00a0Ruin<\/em>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em>All Systems Red<\/em>?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Ni najmanje. \u0160est minuta koji defini\u0161u sasvim novi Calexico. Svetlosnim godinama udaljen od pustinjskog <em>noira<\/em> kojim smo se nasla\u0111ivali prethodnih godina. Njihov\u00a0<em>Stairway To Heaven<\/em>\u00a0(bez Tolkien-patos elemenata) ili\u00a0<em>Bastards Of Young<\/em>\u00a0koji su napisali zreli ljudi.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Calexico - Cruel\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8t46dvudrp8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u017delim da verujem da je ova pesma posve\u0107ena nama. Nama koji \u017eivimo u zemlji u kojoj impotentni politi\u010dari odlu\u010duju o na\u0161im bednim \u017eivotima. Gde najbli\u017ei prijatelji prodaju du\u0161u zarad sitnih zemaljskih zadovoljstava i gde je najve\u0107a sramota pokazati entuzijazam i \u017eelju da se pomogne nekome bez li\u010dne koristi.<\/p>\n<p>Odlazite odavde svi koji mo\u017eete. Nikada ne\u0107e biti bolje. All System Red.<\/p>\n<p>Felt a tremor stir beneath my breath<br \/>\nThat forecasts storms on the Gallup poll<br \/>\nWaking up from the nightmare news<br \/>\nHoping to read a sign in the morning air<\/p>\n<p>Nothing changes here and nothing improves<br \/>\nAll say my friends who just want out<br \/>\nAnd leave these troubles behind<br \/>\nScatter like paper in the eye of the storm<br \/>\nDocumented with a silenced note<br \/>\nThat\u2019s only heard from far away<\/p>\n<p>More cards in play, following suit<br \/>\nEverywhere you look, you only see red<br \/>\nWonder when to call off the race<br \/>\nWatching a horse running down its last legs<br \/>\nWhen you think it couldn\u2019t get much worse<br \/>\nThe numbers rise on the death toll<br \/>\nAnd the chimes of freedom flash and fade<br \/>\nOnly heard from far, far away<\/p>\n<p>I hear you can\u2019t trust in your own<br \/>\nNow the grey is broken in the early morn<br \/>\nAnd the words forming barely have a voice<br \/>\nIt\u2019s just your heart that\u2019s breaking without choice<\/p>\n<p>Everything you hear is distorted in your head<br \/>\nBouncing off the walls, unraveling the thread<br \/>\nStaying up with the blue screen glow<br \/>\nForgetting everything you ever dreamed years ago<\/p>\n<p>When the dread is flowing down my veins<br \/>\nI want to tear it all down and build it up again<br \/>\nHear your heart that&#8217;s breaking without choice<br \/>\nI want to hear those chimes ring again<br \/>\nRing again<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Calexico - All Systems Red\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qAB8jcFsStY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postoje izvesna mi\u0161ljenja da je peti studijski album grupe Calexico lo\u0161a plo\u010da. 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