Ed Vulliamy “Donovan: ‘The songs try to say important things with lightness’” http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/23/donovan-the-songs-try-to-say-important-things-with-lightness
ドノヴァン*1は来月70歳になる。
ドノヴァン曰く、例えば、
I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences – what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition. And Scottish folk music, which was liberating, humorous, real. What happened in the 60s gave a new voice to that tradition: the bohemians and the eccentrics, people like me and George Harrison going through the old bardic books. We infused it with the spirit of that time.
ところで、20年近く前にドノヴァンのコンピレーション・アルバムを買った。調べてみたら、ドノヴァンのコンピレーションって凄く沢山の種類が出ているのだった*2。買ったのは多分1995年に出たUniversal Soldier。
Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don’t sit down to write like you’d sit down to make a pair of boots. “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” was something someone said to me. Like Dylan Thomas, who fell in love with the sound of words, I think the sound of the words themselves is music.
- アーティスト: Donovan
- 出版社/メーカー: Polygram Int'l
- 発売日: 2001/05/08
- メディア: CD
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