野人花园是一个二人组合,由主唱Darren和吉他手兼键盘手Daniel组成。两个来自澳大利亚布里斯班的年轻人在1993年时走到了一起,起初Daniel原来所在的乐队正缺少一名主唱,于是他在附近的酒馆里张贴了一张招聘广告,这张广告吸引来了Darren,他和20多名应聘者一起参加了面试,他是最后一个出场,可能是太紧张了,他唱歌时声音沙哑而且走了调。但是Daniel却偏偏看上了他,觉得他就是自己要找的人。 Darren加入了Daniel的乐队,开始演唱别人的歌曲,在相处中这两个人越来越投机,尤其是在音乐上他们总能找到共同的感受,这促使他们创作了第一首他们自己的歌曲:“A Thousand Word”,这首歌曲的成功给他们带来了强烈的鼓舞和激情,终于他们离开了原来的乐队组成了自己的乐队。 Darren很喜欢读Anne Rice的小说,其中在一本名为《吸血鬼编年史》的小说中,作者把这个世界描述为一个野人的花园,于是Savage Garden作为他们乐队的名字就这样得来了。 野人花园在一开始创作歌曲时就把目光投向了欧美流行音乐界,于是他们创作出了第一支单曲“I Want You”,这首歌曲充满了80年代的欧洲流行歌曲的韵味,而且带着一种别具风格的清新感觉。在创作这首歌曲的时候他们的灵感就一发不可收拾,紧接着他们又作出"To The Moon And Back",这首歌曲讲述了一个女孩得不到人间亲情与父母关心之后幻想跟自己喜爱的人奔赴月球生活的伤感故事;以及"Break Me Shake Me"这首深沉而疯狂的摇滚歌曲;还有"Truly Madly Deeply",这首是在他们外出时写给Darren的妻子Colby的歌曲。创作之后他们开始把自己的成果宣传出去,他们给当地的数家音乐台寄去了他们的单曲“I Want You”,终于有一天,一家电台播放了这首歌曲,这使他们兴奋不已,接着数家电台都开始播放,最后这首歌排上了澳洲歌曲榜首的地位。他们下一个目标就是美国榜,由于他们开始创作时就把目标定位在整个欧美流行乐界,因此,"I Want You”一下就排到了BillBoard的Top10的位置,紧接着“To The Moon And Back”也取得了同样的好成绩,“Truly Madly Deeply”以它优美的旋律更是在美国榜上争取到了第一的位置。后来这首歌曲在1998年的世界榜上排名第二,仅次于歌后Cillion Dion的“My Heart Will Go On”这首由于好莱坞一个大片而走红的歌曲。 这些辉煌的成绩促使Savage Garden开始出他们第一张自己的专辑,他们请来了著名的混音师Charles Lord Alge,他曾为“王子”、“Madona”、“滚石”等著名乐队制作过专辑,还有Charles Fisher这位著名的最Cool录音师,在经过了长达7个月的努力后,专辑终于面世了,而它一上市就带来了巨大的成功,并使得这两个布里斯班男孩非常的富有。在美国音乐界享有盛名之后他们奔赴北美的一些大城市开始了巡回演出,受到了热烈的欢迎。 SG于99年11月推出了最新专辑:Affirmation,这张专辑中有两首脍炙人口的打榜歌曲The Animal Song、I Knew I Loved You,其中I Knew I Loved You是继Truly Madly Deeply之后又一首美国Billboard榜的冠军歌曲,而且同样是以描写Pure Love为主题的。Affirmation一改他们Savage的风格,更多的让人感受到他们Garden的一面。Darren Hayes从原来的Rocker摇身变成了Blue Prince,这主要和他的生活经历有关,因为他和他的妻子Colby于99年11月份离婚了。然而生活的波折没有挫败他,没有了爱人Darren仍然写出了I Knew I Loved You。 从Affirmation中你可以从几首歌曲例如Two Beds And A Coffee Machine还有The Lover After Me中听出Darren的生活坎坷经历。这张专辑的确反映了我们才华横溢的Savage Garden的另一侧面。
Savage Garden: Savage Garden (1997)
专辑曲目:
01-To The Moon & Back 02-I Want You 03-Truly Madly Deeply 04-Tears Of Pearls 05-Universe 06-Carry On Dancing 07-Violet 08-Break Me Shake Me 09-A thousand Words 10-Promises 11-Santa Monica 12-Mine 13-Love Can Move You
Savage Garden: Affirmation (1999)
专辑曲目:
01-Hold Me 02-Affirmation 03-Chained To You 04-The Best Thing 05-I Knew I Loved You 06-Crash And Burn 07-The Animal Song 08-The Lover After Me 09-Two Beds And A Coffee Machine 10-You Can Still Be Free 11-I Don't Know You Anymore 12-Gunning Down Romance
Savage Garden:Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden (2005)
专辑曲目:
01-I Want You 02-I Knew I Loved You 03-To The Moon And Back 04-Hold Me 05-Santa Monica 06-Crash And Burn 07-Break Me Shake Me 08-Truly Madly Deeply 09-The Animal Song 10-Affirmation 11-So Bautiful(Darren Hayes) 12-California(Darren Hayes) 13-I Don't Care(B-Side) 14-I'll Bet He Was Cool(B-Side) 15-Love Can Move You(B-Side) 16-Fire Inside The Man(B-Side) 17-This Side Of Me(B-Side)
专辑名称:We Are One 歌手姓名:Kelly Sweet 唱片公司:Razor & Tie 发行日期:March 6, 2007 专辑流派:Rock/Pop, Pop 专辑语言:English 文件内容:mp3 vbr 52MB
专辑介绍:
Kelly Sweet的风格很象刚出道的Mariah Carey ,象初春的阳光懒洋洋的甚是温暖.刚刚18岁时,凯利甜演出500多场音乐会,因她的风格适合各年龄,以至场场暴满。虽然年轻的她但经验老到能几国的语言,所以以她惊人的水平赢得的观众,赢得了很多名人的捧场。
Not your typical pop record in any way, shape or form, WE ARE ONE has a much more ambitious sensibility than those being heard on Top 40 radio today. With songs sung in English, Italian, French, and Sanskrit, and melodies that partake of both jazz and classical influences, WE ARE ONE conveys a sense of depth, intimacy and sophistication not often heard in today's pop landscape. The magnificent "Giorno Dopo Giorno" couples Sweet's soaring vocals with a thrilling string arrangement, bringing listeners the kind of intense joy that can usually only be experienced in the world's finest opera houses. "The song originally had English lyrics," says Sweet, "and it was called `Who Can I Believe In?' We felt that the melody was too European and didn't work with the lyrics, so we asked Marco Marinangelli, who writes Italian lyrics for Josh Groban, to translate the words into Italian. It came out beautifully." Sweet says she has always gravitated to the beautiful sounds of languages other than English. "I was classically trained beginning at the age of 11," she says, "and that's when I began to sing in other languages. It always came very easily to me."
WE ARE ONE, then, is that rarest of musical experiences--a seamless emotional journey that deeply touches listeners of all ages with its beauty, grace, individuality, and courage. But perhaps to call Sweet courageous is overstating something that is really much simpler. "This music is not about me," she says. "It's about the soul in all of us. I am just happy to have a voice to convey these things to the world."And the world is certainly a better place because of it.
专辑曲目:
01. We Are One 02. Raincoat 03. Dream On 04. Caresse Sur L'Ocean 05. Crush 06. Ready For Love 07. Giorno Dopo Giorno 08. I Will Be Waiting 09. Now We Are Free 10. How 'bout You 11. Love Song 12. Je T'Aime