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Lenka2015-06-16专辑 - The Bright Side～～～
守护心中那明亮的一面
Lenka新专辑《The Bright Side》全球同步发行
今年3月，一首《Blue Skies》在乐坛掀起一股沁爽的蓝色风潮，让北半球的乐迷从春天一直循环播放至夏日，更久居中国各大在线音乐平台榜单前列——Lenka就是有这样无敌的旋律天赋和超强感染力，如今她的第四张正式专辑《The Bright Side》终于在全球同步发行，真庆幸她没有让我们等太久。
从女儿到母亲，坚定的乐观主义
Lenka做音乐的动机非常简单，“我就是想为人们制造情绪增强剂，最高兴的事儿莫过于听到有人说我的音乐让他们感觉好多了。”乐观主义无疑是新专辑的关键词，也是Lenka从未改变的生活态度。母亲的角色为她的生活注入了崭新的能量和色彩，她虽未在歌曲中直接提及这一身份，但对未来的希望和梦想却贯穿了整张专辑，“我常常想到我的乐迷，他们很多都是遍布世界的年轻女孩儿，我希望能把这份乐观的感觉传达给她们每个人。”明朗而动感的《The Bright Side》和《We Are Powerful》便是其中最具代表性的作品。
如今的Lenka既是母亲也是女儿，身为爵士音乐家的父亲在她6岁时便送她去学习钢琴和小号，虽然后来一度进入艺术学校学习表演，但她最终发现了自己在音乐方面的兴趣和天赋，“曾经我是那么讨厌上器乐课，但现在我非常庆幸我父亲让我学了钢琴。”Lenka把父亲看作自己的伯乐，特意写下新专辑中感人至深的“My Love”送给父亲，并让父亲一起参与创作。为了融入父亲的想法，她前前后后把歌曲大改了五遍，才决定将这份礼物收入专辑。
除此之外，专辑中的“The Long Way Home”也是一首关于父亲和女儿的歌。此前Lenka曾受邀为名导阿方索•卡隆执导的美剧《信徒》（Believe）写一首片头曲，当时Lenka与阿方索和他的女儿在一辆车里，女孩儿忽然唱起Lenka的歌，阿方索随即提出了邀请。事实上Lenka受邀为很多项目写过歌，但用她的话说，这些歌里只有自己特别喜欢的才会收在专辑里。质朴的编曲和悠然从容的节奏为“The Long Way Home”赋予了婉转悠长的韵味，对Lenka自己也是不可多得之作。
从“精灵”到音乐家，自信地拥抱改变
新专辑一些歌曲的创作中，Lenka有意避开了自己感到习惯和舒服的地带。相较上张专辑《Shadows》，虽然新专辑中的很多歌都回归了清新爽朗的曲风，甚至有乐迷在听到《Blue Skies》时欢呼“《Trouble is a Friend》时期的Lenka又回来了”，但更值得注意的还有《Go Deeper》和《Hearts Brighter》这样恰当铺陈了电子音效和节拍的曲目，前者被一层轻柔旖旎的梦幻色彩所笼罩，后者则拥有广阔的声场，空灵而大气，它们的听觉感受和氛围营造让人陌生而又惊喜。
对Lenka而言，在音乐中做出改变有一点悖论的意味：“你既想要试验你的想法，发挥你的创造力，又不希望最后的作品听起来不像自己。”为此Lenka亲自参与到了专辑的制作中，一年半以来，她在悉尼、纽约和洛杉矶之间辗转飞行，很多歌都是在飞机上写就的。当《Unique》的创作遇到瓶颈时，Lenka找到了曾与她合作金曲《The Show》的Jason Reeves，在加州马里布的海滩上完成了歌词与和弦；而《Blue Skies》的音频更是在她和加拿大知名制作人Damian Taylor（Bjork、The Killers）之间往返传递了四次，才最终确定了电子乐的部分。
此外，Lenka还和多个风格领域的制作人及歌曲作者有过沟通，比如Chris Braide（Sia、Lana Del Rey）、Tim "One Love" Sommers（Eminem、B.o.B.）、Dan Romer（Ingrid Michaelson、Greg Laswell），有时是当面，有时则通过Skype。她曾坦言，“我一度担心这样会不会让自己偏离轨道，跑到一个怪异的方向上去。”但事实证明，Lenka对自己的音乐有着十足掌控力，并足以消化各种影响。她已经是一个拥有成熟理念的音乐家，而不单是那个标签式的“澳洲音乐精灵”。
或许Lenka并不完全同意“《The Bright Side》是一次回归”的说法，她用专辑中那首《The Long Way Home》比喻道，“你需要跳出你身处的那只盒子，但在漫长的归家之路上，还有更多的冒险等着你。”家对Lenka的意义不言而喻，那既是生活的家，也是音乐的家，也许正是心中那明亮的一面在给予她力量和方向，而她想要去传递和守护的，也是足以为每个人的存在赋予意义的“The Bright Side”。
Australian artist Lenka announced that she will be releasing a new album, “The Bright Side”, on June 16th, 2015.
Lenka began her artistic career as a Sydney-based television personality and went on to become an accomplished actress in her adolescence through her early adult years. Her musical career began when she became the lead singer of the seminal Australian rock band, Decoder Ring. But, after two albums, Lenka left the band, and moved to America. First, she settled in Los Angeles, and later moved to Brooklyn, New York, as she established herself as a successful recording artist and songwriter.
“The Show”, a song on Lenka’s first self-titled solo album, was used in the film “Moneyball”, along with many other commercials, served to put Lenka on the map in North America, Europe, Asia, and various other places around the world. Additionally, her song “Everything at Once” was used during the Microsoft Windows 8 global commercial, and that only further cemented Lenka’s place in modern music. According to a press release, American actor & singer Billy Crystal even sang one of her songs on the 2012 edition of the Academy Awards.
To date, Lenka has released three albums: the aforementioned self-titled “Lenka”, her upbeat and infectious sophomore album “Two”, and “Shadows”, an album of lullabies.
Now, she has announced plans for her fourth album, “The Bright Side”. According to her PR representatives, the new album will be released on the 16th of June 2015.
Lenka worked on “The Bright Side”, while also composing music for television and films. And, she’s been collaborating with her husband, James Gulliver Hancock, to create visual art and music videos that make her live shows an unusual, but enchanted experience. Their collaborations have also garnered Lenka over a million views on Youtube, according to a press release.
This week, Lenka premiered the first single from her new album on The FADER. It’s called, “Blue Skies”. And, Duncan Cooper of The FADER describes the song as starting “from a place that’s a bit more down,” when compared to Lenka’s previous releases.
While the track may be less peppy than Lenka’s older material, in an email interview conducted with The FADER, Lenka explained how the song came to fruition, and she also discussed her own interpretation of “Blue Skies”.
“‘Blue Skies’ was written in my car on a stormy day, singing to my little boy in the back seat,” she said in the email. “It’s about hope for the future and a feeling of certainty that everything will go our way. It’s about seeing though the dark and stormy times with the ones you love.”
守护心中那明亮的一面
Lenka新专辑《The Bright Side》全球同步发行
今年3月，一首《Blue Skies》在乐坛掀起一股沁爽的蓝色风潮，让北半球的乐迷从春天一直循环播放至夏日，更久居中国各大在线音乐平台榜单前列——Lenka就是有这样无敌的旋律天赋和超强感染力，如今她的第四张正式专辑《The Bright Side》终于在全球同步发行，真庆幸她没有让我们等太久。
从女儿到母亲，坚定的乐观主义
Lenka做音乐的动机非常简单，“我就是想为人们制造情绪增强剂，最高兴的事儿莫过于听到有人说我的音乐让他们感觉好多了。”乐观主义无疑是新专辑的关键词，也是Lenka从未改变的生活态度。母亲的角色为她的生活注入了崭新的能量和色彩，她虽未在歌曲中直接提及这一身份，但对未来的希望和梦想却贯穿了整张专辑，“我常常想到我的乐迷，他们很多都是遍布世界的年轻女孩儿，我希望能把这份乐观的感觉传达给她们每个人。”明朗而动感的《The Bright Side》和《We Are Powerful》便是其中最具代表性的作品。
如今的Lenka既是母亲也是女儿，身为爵士音乐家的父亲在她6岁时便送她去学习钢琴和小号，虽然后来一度进入艺术学校学习表演，但她最终发现了自己在音乐方面的兴趣和天赋，“曾经我是那么讨厌上器乐课，但现在我非常庆幸我父亲让我学了钢琴。”Lenka把父亲看作自己的伯乐，特意写下新专辑中感人至深的“My Love”送给父亲，并让父亲一起参与创作。为了融入父亲的想法，她前前后后把歌曲大改了五遍，才决定将这份礼物收入专辑。
除此之外，专辑中的“The Long Way Home”也是一首关于父亲和女儿的歌。此前Lenka曾受邀为名导阿方索•卡隆执导的美剧《信徒》（Believe）写一首片头曲，当时Lenka与阿方索和他的女儿在一辆车里，女孩儿忽然唱起Lenka的歌，阿方索随即提出了邀请。事实上Lenka受邀为很多项目写过歌，但用她的话说，这些歌里只有自己特别喜欢的才会收在专辑里。质朴的编曲和悠然从容的节奏为“The Long Way Home”赋予了婉转悠长的韵味，对Lenka自己也是不可多得之作。
从“精灵”到音乐家，自信地拥抱改变
新专辑一些歌曲的创作中，Lenka有意避开了自己感到习惯和舒服的地带。相较上张专辑《Shadows》，虽然新专辑中的很多歌都回归了清新爽朗的曲风，甚至有乐迷在听到《Blue Skies》时欢呼“《Trouble is a Friend》时期的Lenka又回来了”，但更值得注意的还有《Go Deeper》和《Hearts Brighter》这样恰当铺陈了电子音效和节拍的曲目，前者被一层轻柔旖旎的梦幻色彩所笼罩，后者则拥有广阔的声场，空灵而大气，它们的听觉感受和氛围营造让人陌生而又惊喜。
对Lenka而言，在音乐中做出改变有一点悖论的意味：“你既想要试验你的想法，发挥你的创造力，又不希望最后的作品听起来不像自己。”为此Lenka亲自参与到了专辑的制作中，一年半以来，她在悉尼、纽约和洛杉矶之间辗转飞行，很多歌都是在飞机上写就的。当《Unique》的创作遇到瓶颈时，Lenka找到了曾与她合作金曲《The Show》的Jason Reeves，在加州马里布的海滩上完成了歌词与和弦；而《Blue Skies》的音频更是在她和加拿大知名制作人Damian Taylor（Bjork、The Killers）之间往返传递了四次，才最终确定了电子乐的部分。
此外，Lenka还和多个风格领域的制作人及歌曲作者有过沟通，比如Chris Braide（Sia、Lana Del Rey）、Tim "One Love" Sommers（Eminem、B.o.B.）、Dan Romer（Ingrid Michaelson、Greg Laswell），有时是当面，有时则通过Skype。她曾坦言，“我一度担心这样会不会让自己偏离轨道，跑到一个怪异的方向上去。”但事实证明，Lenka对自己的音乐有着十足掌控力，并足以消化各种影响。她已经是一个拥有成熟理念的音乐家，而不单是那个标签式的“澳洲音乐精灵”。
或许Lenka并不完全同意“《The Bright Side》是一次回归”的说法，她用专辑中那首《The Long Way Home》比喻道，“你需要跳出你身处的那只盒子，但在漫长的归家之路上，还有更多的冒险等着你。”家对Lenka的意义不言而喻，那既是生活的家，也是音乐的家，也许正是心中那明亮的一面在给予她力量和方向，而她想要去传递和守护的，也是足以为每个人的存在赋予意义的“The Bright Side”。
Australian artist Lenka announced that she will be releasing a new album, “The Bright Side”, on June 16th, 2015.
Lenka began her artistic career as a Sydney-based television personality and went on to become an accomplished actress in her adolescence through her early adult years. Her musical career began when she became the lead singer of the seminal Australian rock band, Decoder Ring. But, after two albums, Lenka left the band, and moved to America. First, she settled in Los Angeles, and later moved to Brooklyn, New York, as she established herself as a successful recording artist and songwriter.
“The Show”, a song on Lenka’s first self-titled solo album, was used in the film “Moneyball”, along with many other commercials, served to put Lenka on the map in North America, Europe, Asia, and various other places around the world. Additionally, her song “Everything at Once” was used during the Microsoft Windows 8 global commercial, and that only further cemented Lenka’s place in modern music. According to a press release, American actor & singer Billy Crystal even sang one of her songs on the 2012 edition of the Academy Awards.
To date, Lenka has released three albums: the aforementioned self-titled “Lenka”, her upbeat and infectious sophomore album “Two”, and “Shadows”, an album of lullabies.
Now, she has announced plans for her fourth album, “The Bright Side”. According to her PR representatives, the new album will be released on the 16th of June 2015.
Lenka worked on “The Bright Side”, while also composing music for television and films. And, she’s been collaborating with her husband, James Gulliver Hancock, to create visual art and music videos that make her live shows an unusual, but enchanted experience. Their collaborations have also garnered Lenka over a million views on Youtube, according to a press release.
This week, Lenka premiered the first single from her new album on The FADER. It’s called, “Blue Skies”. And, Duncan Cooper of The FADER describes the song as starting “from a place that’s a bit more down,” when compared to Lenka’s previous releases.
While the track may be less peppy than Lenka’s older material, in an email interview conducted with The FADER, Lenka explained how the song came to fruition, and she also discussed her own interpretation of “Blue Skies”.
“‘Blue Skies’ was written in my car on a stormy day, singing to my little boy in the back seat,” she said in the email. “It’s about hope for the future and a feeling of certainty that everything will go our way. It’s about seeing though the dark and stormy times with the ones you love.”