or iTunes Price: $12.99 Genre: Alternative Released: Jun 15, 2012 Customer Ratings (172 Ratings)
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Rhythm and Repose (Deluxe Edition) – Glen HansardView More By Glen Hansard Our ReviewThis album is Mastered for iTunes. Glen Hansard spent a good part of his career playing to capacity crowds in Ireland as the leader of the Frames. In the U.S., he is best known as one-half of the duo, The Swell Season, whose musical contributions to Once garnered them an Oscar. What seems to the public to be an overnight success has been in the works for decades. His solo debut captures Hansard's softer side, away from the dissonant feedback of his band and into the mystic that recalls Van Morrison at his most pastoral. Swell Season's Marketa Irglova adds harmonies to the transcendent opener, "You Will Become." With producer Thomas Bartlett (Antony and the Johnsons, The National) ensuring an organic balance of piano, acoustic guitars, and solid, permeating bass guitar, the album captures the feel of a small band playing in their corner of the room. "Maybe Not Tonight" is a luminous ballad. "Talking With the Wolves" steps up the rhythm section, while nothing rushes Hansard himself. It's a tour de force. The Deluxe Edition adds three bonus tracks.Customer ReviewsLove it. (5 stars)Like my favorite blanket, Glen's voice has the ability to comfort and sooth like no other. Once (5 stars) He's back! good music!! (5 stars) very talented individual... very chill and reflecting music. BiographyBorn: April 21, 1970 in Dublin, IrelandGenre: Alternative Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s With a host of real-life songs and lilting vocals that reflect a passion for his influences (particularly Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen, and Bob Dylan), Glen Hansard is best known for his work with the Frames and the Swell Season. Born to a working-class Dublin family during the spring of 1970, he left school at age 13 in search of making music his career. He began busking the streets of Dublin, laying the groundwork for his engaging stage persona and, ironically, mimicking the plot line of Once, the...
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