Bahamas is Afie Bahamas

• 1 Waves 04:23
• 2 Can't Take You With Me 03:11
• 3 Bitter Memories 02:29
• 4 All The Time 03:55
• 5 Stronger Than That 02:37
• 6 Half Mine 02:16
• 7 All Time Favourite 04:09
• 8 Like A Wind 03:28
• 9 Nothing To Me Now 03:20
• 10 Little Record Girl 03:03
• 11 I Had It All 03:41
• 12 All I've Ever Known 06:16
• Total Runtime 42:48

Info zu Bahamas is Afie

'Bahamas is Afie ist Bahamas aka Afie Jurvanens erstes, selbstproduziertes Album und mit Hochspannung erwarteter Nachfolger des 2012 abgefeierten Longplayers 'Barchords welches gleich für zwei Juno Awards nomminiert war ('Adult Alternative Album of the Year und 'Songwriter of the Year) Auf iTunes wurde es gar als 'Bestes Singer/Songwriter Album 2012 bezeichnet. Jurvanen hat bei seinem Debut als Produzent eine neue Welt um sich herum kreiert und sich mit der Anordnung von Streichern, Blechbläsern, Blasinstrumenten, Orchester-Percussion und Kammerchören klar weiter entwickelt. Davor waren alle Bahamas-Releases noch unter einfachsten Verhältnissen in seinem Schlafzimmer aufgenommen worden. Nach drei Jahren intensiven Tourings mit Feist kehrte Jurvanen mit vielen eigenkomponierten Songs nach Hause zurück. Daraus entstand sein 2009 erschienenes Debüt-Album 'Pink Strat. Die Platte wurde ebenfalls für den kanadischen Juno Award und den Polaris Music Prize (eine Art Mercury Prize Kanadas) nominiert.

Afie Jurvanen
isn’t from the Bahamas. He’s a Finnish-Canadian from Barrie–a working class town in rural Ontario. But his chosen epithet is fitting. Since 2009 he’s been making music under the name Bahamas–writing songs about sunsets, love affairs, and making out with crooked smiles. Through simple arrangements, he charts an escape route from the snow belt to the coral reefs. His new album, Bahamas Is Afie, will be released August 19, 2014 on Brushfire Records/Universal.

Bahamas is Afie is a coming of age record. Self-titled and self-produced – It is the next step in the evolution of Jurvanen’s songcraft, guitar mastery, and melodic pop hooks – following his previous full-lengths Pink Strat (2009) and Barchords (2011). Bahamas is Afie remains a sparse, moving, headphone album, complemented by a more developed arrangement of strings, brass, winds, orchestral percussion, and chamber choruses that transport the listener from moving seas to a search for strength, to a place of resolve and comfort.

“This feels like a self-titled record to me. The songs seem to have a definitive quality to them, and they ended up going to all kinds of unexpected musical places. I really thought I was going to make a traditional folk record but as the recording evolved I started having some pretty different ideas. I started playing this game like, ‘what would 80s Van Morrison do if he were producing this?’ or ‘what about John Williams?’ It all came together in a simple, naive and direct way and I was really energized by the process. And I got to play a lot of guitar…I feel like I’ll get another chance to make a folkie record somewhere down the road. For now, this is me.”

Dieses Album enthält kein Booklet