Elysian Fields

"Unlike the boringly blatant & plastic sexuality of a lot of contemporary hits, this is the real thing: the lush flow is in the mind as much as in the body, creating a fever dream that never ends while the music is playing & Jennifer Charles' rich, low, satiny voice is soothing, caressing, aching in the dark, calling to you ... "But it doesn't matter anyway, I'm on the wrong side of the water, oh won't you listen to the lady in the lake?" In a way, it isn't so much about sex as it is about the mood, the countless little details merging together, the emotional undercurrents ... both alluring & a little ominous..." -- Amazon review

Deep, sinuous, charged, hypnotic are all words that come to my mind trying to describe the atmosphere that comes while listening to Elysian Fields. Erotic and oddly twisted. Elysian Fields aren't a quick listen but something to hear over again, each time discovering more even if that might seem impossible from such a minimal, jazz-noir rock. Yet it's there. This is the stuff that inspires holidays like Valentines Day. 

Elysian Fields: Bleed Your Cedar (1996)

part 1

part 2

01 Lady in the Lake
02 Jack in the Box
03 Off or Out
04 Fountains on Fire
05 Star
06 Anything You Like
07 Sugarplum Arches
08 Parachute
09 Gracie Lyons
10 Rolling
11 Mermaid
12 Diamonds
13 Move
14 Get Rich.
Elysian Fields: Bum Raps and Love Taps (2005)

01 Lions in the Store
02 Set the Grass on Fire
03 Sharpening Skills
04 Duel with Cudgels
05 Lame Lady of the Highways
06 When
07 Out to Sea
08 Bum Raps and Love Taps
09 We Are in Love

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