#don peris

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Don Peris - Firefly

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follow me (cover). the innocence mission.

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The Innocence Mission

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🎬 Lost Horizons - Triptych: a film by Kieran Evans 🎵 Music from the album Ojalá by Lost Horizons, featuring Marissa Nadler, Karen Peris, Ghostpoet, Ed Riman

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La délicatesse céleste du nouvel album de The Innocence Mission

See You Tomorrow Un douzième album qui marque le retour de ces amoureux de folk onirique, chanté avec précaution et sensibilité.

Depuis 1989, Karen et Don Peris proposent une promenade, romantique et boisée, loin de ces grands axes urbains où les bâtiments s’empilent vers le ciel. A chaque album, il est plutôt question pour ce couple de s’évader du réalisme et de composer la bande-son d’une balade onirique, apte à faire vibrer le cœur de tous les fuyards du quotidien, ceux qui voguent en quête de peu de choses, bien décidés à traverser la vie avec une langueur d’avance, en faisant de la mélancolie un compagnon précieux.

Deux âmes de hippies pour réchauffer les cœurs

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The Innocence Mission started out as a dreampop "alternative" band in the early 1990s and had one song featured in the pilot episode of Beverly Hills 90210, then after a few modest alternative chart hits largely retired from the spotlight. But they continued making music at home in central Pennsylvania in the folk tradition as a stripped-down husband-and-wife duo (or I should say wife-and-husband duo, since Karen handles most of the songwriting work).

Their music is nuanced and complex, full of both light and shade, and exudes such warmth and quiet joy that I can't help but be awed by them. These home videos of Karen and Don performing together embody my ideal of domestic bliss. I could not love this more.

All day, since your haircut in the morning, you have looked like a painting, even more than usual. We are in the wind, planting the maples. We meet an older man who seems to know I miss my dad. And he smiles through the limbs. We talk easily with him until the rain begins. This is the brotherhood of man.

Waiting at the airport on my suitcase, a girl traveling from Spain became my sudden friend, though I did not learn her name. And when the subway dimmed a stranger lit my way. This is the brotherhood of man.

I never can say what I mean but you will understand, coming through clouds on the way. This is the brotherhood of man.

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From Korda Records (The Ocean Blue’s label):

We are thrilled to announce that our friends innocence mission are joining Korda! And we will be releasing their first full length record in 5 years (Korda 014) on October 17. Can't wait!

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#263. Don Peris - Ten Silver Slide Trombones.

Tillsammans med makan Karen skapar Don Peris underskön, melankolisk popmusik i bandet The Innocence Mission. Som soloartist tar han ut svängarna, larmar, skränar, skriker och svävar ut i långa distade gitarrsolon som... Näe. Jag skämtar bara. "Ten Silver Slide Trombones" skulle precis lika gärna ha kunnat ges ut som en Innocence Mission-skiva, om det inte vore för Karen Peris frånvaro. Det är försiktiga och känsliga vaggvisemelodier på minimal volym, och så vackert att tiden stannar. Precis som vi är vana vid. Och precis som vi är vana balanserar det hela tiden på gränsen till det lite för skört sakrala. Att makarna Peris är kristna är ingen hemlighet. Att det hörs i musiken är egentligen inget jag håller emot dem, men ibland blir det nästan lite för tydligt. Men denna invändning till trots är "Ten Silver Slide Trombones" en av de skivor jag spelat flitigast det senaste halvåret, och framförallt då under dygnets senare timmar. Få album är så rakt igenom rogivande som detta. (Bonusmaterial! Favoritlåten "Pennsylvania" har en så fin text att jag bara måste få citera den i dess helhet: "When will you come to Pennsylvania When will you bring your old self here? I've got some friends I think you'd like them I've got that Hammond organ up and off the floor I might just go to California And get some good used records there Fairport Convention After the Gold Rush Or Woody Guthrie in the Dust Bowl Why don't you come here and spend Thanksgiving November's not the greatest month but that's alright We've got guitars and We've all got problems Sometimes they're looming large Sometimes they're nothing more than...")