Change!

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Change!
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Studio album by The Black Swans
Released November 6, 2007
Genre Folk rock
Label La Société Expéditionnaire
Producer Jerry DeCicca
The Black Swans chronology
Sex Brain
(2006)
Change!
(2007)
Words Are Stupid
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork Media (7.9/10) [1]
Stylus A [2]

Change! is the second full-length album by the Black Swans. It is a follow-up to 2004's Who Will Walk in the Darkness with You? and their 2006 EP, Sex Brain . Harp Magazine described the album as a tip of the hat to Charles Simic, the Left Banke, and Fred Neil. [3]

The Black Swans are an indie rock band. Jerry DeCicca and Noel Sayre form the core of the band. Their debut, Who Will Walk in the Darkness with You? features Milan Karcic, Matt Surgeson, Joe Peppercorn (piano), and Jovan Karcic (drums). The Sex Brain EP features Canaan Faulkner (bass), Chris Forbes, Keith Hanlon, Sarah Jurcyk, and Horace Roscoe. Amy Alwood and Cassie Lewis are also listed as group members. The Black Swans have toured America with such notable indie artists as Okkervil River, Magnolia Electric Company and Early Day Miners. Their 2nd full-length album, Change!, was released on November 6, 2007 by La Société Expéditionnaire on CD and LP. It features the same core band of DeCicca, Sayre, Faulkner, Forbes and Hanlon that appeared on Sex Brain, as well as appearances by Peppercorn on piano and Amy Alwood on backing vocals. It was recorded in Forbes' living room by Hanlon and mixed by Hanlon and DeCicca at Gidget Sound in Columbus, Ohio.

<i>Who Will Walk in the Darkness with You?</i> album by The Black Swans

Who Will Walk in the Darkness with You? is the debut album by folk-rock group The Black Swans.

Harp was a print and online magazine that provided in-depth information on current music, mainly the adult album alternative genre, which encompasses a large variety of music. It was published from 2001 to 2008. The sister publication of Harp was Jazz Times.

Contents

Cover

The cover of the CD release is a painting, "Untitled", by Debbie Porchetti, a member of Arc Industries North Workshop, a branch of Franklin County Board of MRDD. The workshop provides services to 300 adults with developmental challenges and recognize their talents by offering an environment that reinforces their confidence and self-expression. Change! was also released in a limited edition vinyl featuring original, one of a kind artwork by workshop members who applied their expression to 500 blank album sleeves. [3] [4]

Franklin County, Ohio County in the United States

Franklin County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of 2017 census estimates, the population was 1,291,981, making it the most populous county in Ohio. Its county seat is Columbus, the state capital and most populous city in Ohio. The county was established on April 30, 1803, less than two months after Ohio became a state, and was named after Benjamin Franklin. Franklin County originally extended all the way north to Lake Erie before Ohio subdivided further into more counties.

Track listing

All tracks written by Jerry DeCicca, except "Blue Moon #9" by DeCicca, Faulkner & Forbes.

No.TitleLength
1."New Face"2:37
2."Hope Island"4:52
3."Coats"3:55
4."Only Be with You"4:35
5."Shake"6:21
6."Purple Heart"2:28
7."Fruitless Ways"3:57
8."Blue Moon #9"2:33
9."3 Broken Words"3:48
10."Slide on Down"3:46
11."Change!"3:35
12."3 Chord Song"5:55

Personnel

Musicians

Acoustic guitar type of guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar). The sound waves from the strings of an acoustic guitar resonate through the guitar's body, creating sound. This typically involves the use of a sound board and a sound box to strengthen the vibrations of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings are tuned (low to high) E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4.

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

Releases

yearformatlabelcatalog #
2007CD La Société Expéditionnaire 7

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References

  1. Stephen M. Deusner, "Review: The Black Swans Change" Archived April 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., Pitchfork Media , January 3, 2008
  2. Andrew Iliff, "Review: The Black Swans - Change!" Archived April 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., Stylus , October 30, 2007
  3. 1 2 Fred Mills, "Black Swans Ready for 'Change'" Archived July 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine ., Harp Magazine , August 13, 2007
  4. liner notes