Eleni Mandell

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Eleni Mandell 一個(gè)以Tom Waits為偶像的唱作人，來自美國(guó)LOS ANGELES的漂亮女人。她的嗓音很散很散，因?yàn)槭艿?Tom Waits的影響，她的音樂顯得很慵懶，慢慢的節(jié)拍，簡(jiǎn)單的曲調(diào)。一點(diǎn)燭光，一把吉他，一些器樂伴奏，疲疲倦倦的樣子，完全一種很輕松，幽閑，并且幸福的音樂。這樣的音樂能夠讓你在下班，下學(xué)的路上美美的小息一會(huì)，放松的身體，幽閑的大腦，讓這散漫的音樂圍繞。一種生活的享受。

Miracle Of Five是Eleni Mandell 的第六張專輯，封面上一個(gè)人的手去追尋缺失的那顆心，正是本張專輯名字的由來。這張專輯可以說是Mandell目前職業(yè)生涯里最好的一張。開場(chǎng)曲Moonglow, lampe low融合了Mandell令人愉悅的聲線和漫不經(jīng)心的吉他以及悠閑自在的薩克斯。Girls通過器樂的合奏釋放出猶如磁場(chǎng)一般的吸引力。 幽默的Making-out King則表達(dá)了Mandell對(duì)于這個(gè)膚淺的、著迷于謠言和錯(cuò)誤譴責(zé)的社會(huì)的看法。也許有些樂迷不喜歡Mandell此種類型的音樂，但毫無疑問的是在她所在的音樂領(lǐng)域，Mandell的才華超越了許多人。

Drawing heavy influence from Tom Waits, Los Angeles hipster Eleni Mandell initiated a recording career with art-cool albums packed with her gritty, noir-ish sketches. Mandell, who was a huge fan of L.A. punkers X growing up, was raised in the Sherman Oaks region of the San Fernando Valley, and began performing out during her years as a student at Berkeley. Soon after, she fell under the mentorship of Chuck E. Weiss, the Tom Waits hobnobber (and subject of Rickie Lee Jones' "Chuck E's in Love"). In 1998, she self-financed her first release, Wishbone. The album spurred the Waits comparisons as well as comparisons to P.J. Harvey. Her next two albums, Thrill and Snakebite, continued the mode of torchy cool, but 2003's Country for True Lovers saw a shift in Mandell's muse to classic-country tunes. Inspired by such trad-country classics as Tammy Wynette's Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad (1967), Mandell enlisted producer and former X guitarist Tony Gilkyson, whom she had met through Weiss. The effort, recorded in a mere two weeks with a host of L.A.'s top country-rock sessioneers (including former Lone Justice drummer Don Heffington), featured a mix of originals and covers by artists such as Merle Haggard.