Beat Circus - The Ghost of Emma Jean
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- Опубликовано: 24 июн 2013
- "The Ghost of Emma Jean" by Beat Circus from the album Dreamland, released by Cuneiform Records.
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To bring his historical fiction to life, Carpenter created a 150 page musical score that blends Vaudeville, cabaret, parlor songs and other old-time, pre-jazz American popular musical forms with modern composition and post-rock. The resulting music is a surreal new-folk Americana, resounding and brutal in musical and emotional power. Blurring the lines between past and present, fact and fiction, nightmares and the American Dream, Beat Circus’ Dreamland exists in a perverse and magical netherworld, where reality shifts like sand on Coney Island’s wave-washed shore.
The historical facts underlying Dreamland read like surreal fiction. The original Dreamland, one of three grand amusement parks that forged Coney Island’s identity in the early 1900’s as America’s recreational escape, was built by Tammany Hall-connected businessman William H. Reynolds. It opened in 1904, a Utopian vision of all-white buildings dominated by a grandiose, beacon-lit tower that gleamed by day and glowed at night - a novel, awe-inspiring spectacle made possible by America’s newest invention, a million electric lights. Designed to entertain under an educational pretense, Dreamland was in fact “a surreal and macabre world of horrors and delights” that offered the public exotic (Alpine villages, Venetian canals) and improbable locales (a Lilliputian Village built for 300 dwarves), dangerous rides (the deadly Rough Rider) and ‘scientific’ and ‘technical’ exhibits (burning tenements featuring real New York City firefighters in action, a display of premature triplets in incubators). A religious and moral undercurrent coursed through it all; historian Adam Sandy described Dreamland as “the Bible brought to Brooklyn with hints of showmanship.” The park’s entrance - an arch formed by gigantic angel wings and capped by a colossal Statue of Liberty crown (America as dream-land, mankind’s gateway to redemption and rebirth!) - doubled as Creation, an attraction that took visitors on a journey through Genesis and the creation of the world. Another attraction, “opened by a fan of sobriety hoping to scare customers straight,” took visitors on a boat trip to Hell. In 1911, under Samuel Gumpertz’s new management, Dreamland closed to remodel and repaint its buildings in riotous color. At 2 AM on May 27th, the night before re-opening day, a fire broke out in Hell Gate during repairs and spread rapidly, burning Dreamland to the ground. Never rebuilt, Dreamland was replaced by a freak show and other, smaller attractions; the New York Aquarium now sits on Dreamland’s site. Dreamland has been commemorated in a documentary film by Ric Burns, a post card collection by Richard Snow, historical books and websites by Adam Sandy and others, and a ‘historical novel’, Dreamland, by Kevin Baker.
A lovingly compiled tribute, Beat Circus’ Dreamland may well be the first musical narrative/concept album devoted to Dreamland’s colorful past. Ironically, Beat Circus completed the CD in 2007 during what the Gotham Gazette called “Coney Island’s Summer of Reckoning”, as massive redevelopment plans were unveiled to erase all physical character - and characters - from Coney Island’s carnival past.
A full-length recording that contains 16 cuts of lyrical songs and through-composed instrumental music, Dreamland was produced & mixed by legendary NYC producer Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans, The Dresden Dolls, Barbez) and mastered by Fred Kevorkian at Avatar Studios in NYC. It features a pantheon of Carpenter's long and short-term collaborators, including the nine-piece Beat Circus and numerous special guests.
Album Personnel:
Brian Carpenter - vocals, harmonica, trumpet, accordion, harmonium
Kaethe Hostetter - violin, vocals
Alec K. Redfearn - accordion, jawharp
Brandon Seabrook - tenor banjo, slide guitar, mandolin
Julia Kent - cello
Briggan Krauss - alto, baritone saxophones
Curtis Hasselbring - trombone
Ron Caswell - tuba
Matt McLaren - drums
Brian Dewan - electric zither, cover artwork
Sxip Shirey - bells, triple-extended pennywhistle, breath blasts
Todd Robbins - upright piano
Michael Hearst - theremin
Orion Rigel Dommisse - voice on "The Ghost of Emma Jean"
Invert - string quartet
Jesse Sparhawk - harp
Holly Brewer - voice
Mat McNiss - voice
DJ Hazard - voice on "Coney Island Creepshow"
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Super cool! 🙂👍🌟
Brilliant! Great song, great performance.
Love this song, it's brilliant
My theory is that Emma Jean judging by the warning to stay away, and the sound the harmonica makes of a whizzing train, but I am also very sick currently, and not quite sure what I'm doing
Love this
Gumb is digging!!!!
Why did the whole Dreamland Album become private/unlisted and eventually removed?. Some of the best songs on this album are hard to find as it is.
cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dreamland
Thanks, but I can also find it on Amazon to buy and you kinda didn't answer my question.
@@tanithjackal Fuck Amazon. Also, if you buy the album from that link, more of your dollar goes into the artist's hands. I'd reconsider your approach to buying music, and your tone.
@@TheYelof3 The poor guy was curious and asked that question is the most direct manner he could without giving off any hint of impatience or rudeness. You're berating untainted words, friend.
I really love this song... was it maybe a little inspired by Led Zeppelin's Ramble On, or am I hearing things?
I can hear it a tiny bit :)
know any other songs like this?
+Rotgut Roberts check out "Unawake" by Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores: ruclips.net/video/m5FVtYHmVUU/видео.html
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Gem Saloon by Beat Circus. Same album
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