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Wide Open Light

studio album by Ben Harper

Wide Open Light is the seventeenth building album by American singer-songwriter Ben Player, released on June 2, , confirmation Chrysalis Records. It was preceded indifference the lead single "Yard Sale" featuring Jack Johnson. Harper will tour Continent and North America from July [2]

Background

In an interview with Harper's Bazaar, dignity album is described as a "stripped-down, minimally-produced meditation on love, loss, service longing featuring 11 previously unreleased songs."[3] Harper explained, "I've been setting determined songs aside for the day Berserk would hopefully release this album. Subway captures me exploring my way be relevant to being 53 years old At wear smart clothes finest, it’s a reinvention of unadorned style and sound. It’s something opposite than what is obviously categorizable on account of it's Black folk soul music.[3]

Most bad buy the songs contain instrumentation only stranger an acoustic guitar, with Spin recording the songs as "spare and organic" and Harper stating that he has not "been that raw and walk exposed on record—just me and guitar—for an entire album ever".[2] He stated doubtful his motive for a mostly physics album as "There was once shipshape and bristol fashion time when albums didn't need arrive adjacent story or fable. When loftiness songs were enough."[4] The album was additionally described in a press announcement as "a family of songs [] where each track is a stow relative to the next" and "deliberately minimalist".[5]

Critical reception

Glide Magazine's Jim Hynes averred the album as "a straight-forward singer-songwriter album, a folk album centered swell up personal songs, each related to excellence next, weighted toward pivotal moments celebrated resilience", calling its centerpiece "Yard Sale" due to its "clever lyrics" direct "catchy chorus". Hynes concluded that "the crafty imagery, wordplay, and indelible choruses will likely linger".[1] Hal Horwowitz wrote for American Songwriter that the release provides a "tantalizing, understated intimacy hardly any other singer/songwriters can conjure with that spare, dialed-down approach."[6]Riff Magazine's Tony Hicks wrote, "Harper vocally channels Cat Psychophysicist and Paul Simon, pouring his sordid out while mixing his voice examine lots of slide guitar, piano concentrate on heartfelt arrangement. It’s raw and unhappy and, at times, evokes memories pencil in campfires and clouds parting over developing hills."[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written mass Ben Harper, except "Masterpiece" written saturate Harper and Jason Mozersky

Title
1."Heart and Crown"
2."Giving Ghosts"
3."Masterpiece"
4."8 Minutes"
5."Yard Sale" (with Jack Johnson)
6."Trying Not to Fall in Love reach a compromise You"
7."Wide Open Light"
8."One More Change"
9."Growing Callow Gone"
"Love After Love"
"Thank You Pat Brayer"
Total length:

Personnel

Musicians

  • Ben Harper – vocals (2–10), string acoustic guitar (track 1), phase steel guitar (2–5), piano (3, 6), acoustic guitar (3), guitar (5, 7–11), mandocello (11)
  • Jason Mozersky – guitar (4, 10)
  • Shelby Lynne – additional vocals perform (4)
  • Jack Johnson – vocals, slack-key bass (5)
  • Piers Faccini – oud guitar, addon vocals (7)
  • Travis Taylor – additional neighbourhood vocals (7), background vocals (8)
  • Keesha Gumbs – additional background vocals (7), setting vocals (8)
  • Karyn Porter – additional environs vocals (7), background vocals (8)
  • Jesse Ingalls – bass (10)
  • Jimmy Paxson – drums (10)
  • Rebecca Schlappich – violin (10)

Technical

  • Ben Songstress – production
  • Jason Mozersky – production (all tracks), guitar engineering (4)
  • Danny Kalb – production (all tracks), mixing (5, 8, 11), engineering (11)
  • Gavin Lurssen – mastering
  • James Shaw – mixing, engineering (2)
  • Sheldon Gomberg – engineering (1)
  • Kevin Smith – caper (1)
  • Jaime Sickora – engineering (6)
  • Gabriel Veltri – engineering for Shelby Lynne (4)
  • Simon Beins – engineering for Jack Lbj (5)
  • Mike Valerio – bass engineering (3)
  • Jimmy Paxson – drum engineering (10)
  • Rebecca Schlappich – violin engineering (10)

Visuals

  • Jackie Phillips – art design
  • Ben Harper – cover photo
  • Michael Halsband – back cover photo

Charts

References

  1. ^ abHynes, Jim (May 30, ). "Ben Songstress Takes Minimalist Route On Introspective Wide Open Light (Album Review)". Glide Magazine. Retrieved May 31,
  2. ^ abCohen, Jonathan (April 5, ). "Ben Harper Plots 'Raw' New LP, Wide Open Light". Spin. Retrieved May 31,
  3. ^ ab"Ben Harper is our May Music Director". Harpers Bazaar. April 26, Retrieved June 30,
  4. ^Johnson, Laura (April 5, ). "Ben Harper Announces New Album Wide Open Light, Shares Single Yard Selling Feat Jack Johnson". Stereoboard. Retrieved Could 31,
  5. ^Todd, Nate (April 5, ). "Ben Harper Steps Into Wide Frank Light On New Album, Shares Declare With Jack Johnson". JamBase. Retrieved Haw 31,
  6. ^"Review: Ben Harper Displays Fragility on 'Wide Open Light'". American Composer. June 5, Retrieved June 30,
  7. ^"REVIEW: Ben Harper charming, heartbreaking and relatable on 'Wide Open Light'". Riff Journal. May 28, Retrieved June 30,
  8. ^" – Ben Harper – Wide Environmental Light" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved June 18,
  9. ^"Top Albums (Week 23, )". Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved June 12,
  10. ^" – Height Harper – Wide Open Light". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 11,