A gritty, smoke-filled, and boozy account of musician Tom Waitsâs formative decade in Los Angeles. Song Noir examines the formative first decade of Tom Waitsâs career, when he lived, wrote, and recorded nine albums in Los Angeles: from his soft, folk-inflected debut, Closing Time in 1973, to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones in 1983. Starting his songwriting career in the seventies, Waits absorbed Los Angelesâs wealth of cultural influences. Combining the spoken idioms of writers like Kerouac and Bukowski with jazz-blues rhythms, he explored the cityâs literary and film noir traditions to create hallucinatory dreamscapes. Waits mined a rich seam of the cityâs low-life locations and characters, letting the place feed his dark imagination. Mixing the domestic with the mythic, Waits turned quotidian, autobiographical details into something more disturbing and emblematic, a vision of Los Angeles as the warped, narcotic heart of his nocturnal explorations.
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Aug 9, 2022
€14.46