| 词条 | Ben Jelen |
| 释义 | 简介男歌手Ben Jelen的名字或许对于许多人来说还十分陌生。拥有英国与捷克混血血统的他有着模特儿般的俊俏脸孔。年纪轻轻的他音乐才华不容忽视。身为音乐创作人兼歌手，他具有弹奏钢琴、吉他及小提琴等多样才能。 全名：Benjamin Ivan Jelen 生日：1979 7 8 出生地：英国苏格兰 乐器：吉他 钢琴 小提琴 歌曲风格：英伦摇滚 主要主题：关注世界*反对战争*保护地球*爱情 **BEN JELEN FUNDATION——拥有自己的基金会 音乐历程Jelen是一个旅行者、学者、抒情诗人及音乐家。在他频繁地从苏格兰迁移到英格兰、德克萨斯、新泽西，最后到纽约的过程中，音乐一直伴随着他。由于经常迁居，他从未组过自己的乐队，而是自己练习钢琴、小提琴和吉他弹奏。在上大学时（他取得了罗格斯大学生物学学位），他终于在和朋友偶尔参加演唱会时登台演出。在每场演出中，Jelen都会把他的歌曲和钢琴演奏融合起来，给台下所有听众带来了独特的音乐。毕业以后，他搬到了曼哈顿，全身心地投入到音乐事业中。 他在一间录音室中担任制作人和录音师的工作，深夜时他则为自己制作录音磁带。他的歌曲逐渐成型，歌曲中体现了他云游四方的成长生涯以及自由自在的生活方式。在Jelen闯荡世界的旅程中，在一场名为Jane's Addiction的演出中幸运星赐予了他一次难得的机遇。在演唱会上，Calvin Klein公司的一位营销主管看好Jelen，想为他提供担任模特的机会，但他婉言拒绝了。巧的是，在场的Fearless经纪人公司总裁Joseph Janus也对他十分感兴趣。他被Jelen的魅力所吸引，于是聆听了Jelen的录音母带。几天后，Janus便与Jelen签约，成为他的经纪人，并安排他与Madonna创立的Maverick唱片公司首脑Guy Oseary会面。Oseary曾推出过Alanis Morissette和Michelle Branch等知名艺人。他听了Jelen的音乐后即刻邀请他加入该唱片公司。Jelen成功地把握住了机会。 2004年3月，Jelen推出了加入Maverick厂牌后的首张创作专辑《Give It All Away》（随风而逝），显示出了他作为一名音乐人所具有的才华。他自省式的歌曲中透出对新开始的乐观和信心。在这张专辑中，Jelen籍由华丽的配器讲述了一位诗人的故事。他的歌词探讨了奔放的热情，激情冷却后不变的仍是那份怀旧之情。以钢琴伴奏为主，带点流行摇滚乐风的创作，铺陈出一张旋律性十足的专辑。整张大碟创造性地利用了非传统性的音乐元素。班卓琴、弦乐以及凯尔特音乐贯穿始终，揉合了传统的原创性和流行摇滚。“Come On”记述了一段异地恋情的起起落落，“Slow Down”回顾了童年的纯真，“Stay”表现的则是开始一段新恋情时的满心欢愉，而翻唱摇滚音乐剧《Hedwig and The Angry Inch》中的Wicked Little Town更显露出Jelen优异独具的品味。Ben Jelen的处女专辑收录了一系列拥有深度内涵的歌词、活泼的流行旋律及体现其纯熟音乐技巧的歌曲。 Jelen解释道：“我并不只是创作一种类型的音乐。我谱写我所见所做及所感。在你生气时你的血液会沸腾，在你兴奋时你的脉搏会跳动，这才是最重要的。当我有这种感觉时，音乐就自然而然涌上我心田，于是我就把音符记了下来。” Benjamin Ivan Jelen (pronounced Yellin) was born on July 8th, 1979 in Scotland, UK. He has lived in Scotland, England, Texas, New Jersey, and New York. He plays the piano, violin, and guitar. In college he earned a biology degree from Rutgers University... but instead, he decided to be a singer. After graduation, he committed entirely to music and made the move to Manhattan. Joseph Janus was very impressed by Ben's music. So he listened to Ben's demo. Within days, Janus signed on as Ben's manager and a scheduled a meeting to with Guy Oseary, the head of Madonna's Maverick Recording Company. Few young artists possess the ability to write, produce, and perform their own material on their first album, but Jelen was offered the opportunity to do just that. He partnered with respected producers like The Matrix (Avril Lavigne, Christina Aguilera, Liz Phair) and the Berman Brothers. Legendary mixer, Jack Joseph Puig (No Doubt, Beck, Black Crowes) heard Ben's rough cut only once before moving the singer/songwriterís project to the top of his long waiting list. 音乐作品热门歌曲01 christine 02 come on 03 criminal 04 every step 05 falling down 06 give it all away 07 rocks 08 setting of the sun 09 she'll hear you 10 slow down 11 stay 12 the setting of the sun专辑专辑名称 发行时间 语言 试听专辑 详情 give it all away 2004-04-13 唱片公司：Maverick专辑曲目（13）01 christine 02 come on 03 falling down 04 give it all away 05 rocks 06 setting of the sun 07 she'll hear you 08 wicked little town 09 criminal 10 every step 11 slow down 12 stay 13 the setting of the sun 已发行的专辑发行的专辑"Wreckage - EP" "EX-SENSITIVE" "Where Do We Go - Single" "Rejected - EP" "Give It All Away" "Come On - Single" "Sessions - AOL EP" Ex-Sensitive the new album from singer-songwriter Ben Jelen, is all about love. But listeners familiar with Jelen’s debut LP (Give It All Away/Maverick Records) – a lush and romantic tribute to a girl named Isabel – may be surprised to learn that the object of Jelen’s affection in Ex-Sensitive isn’t a girl at all. It’s the Planet Earth and everyone on it. Like most great love stories, Jelen’s work on the album began with (meta)physical attraction - in this case a fascination with the physics of sound and its roots in good old-fashioned nature. Unraveling this mystery gradually laid waste to just about everything he thought he knew about himself and his music. Jelen’s drive to re-discover himself took him to India, the UK, and even the American South, where he holed up in the isolated home of Widespread Panic’s Dave Schools. He pulled his disappearing act - after months of touring - in hopes of catching up with all the changes in his life since his first album release. “The first week, I found myself in a daze,” says Jelen, who was born in Scotland of Czech descent, and raised in London and Texas before settling in New York City. “I hadn’t had much time to myself and now I was alone in the woods. I listened to Sigur Ros in the evenings, Jet in the mornings, Pink Floyd during the day. I delved deeper than I ever had into the Beatles catalogue. Abbey Road on vinyl never sounded so amazing to me.” Months later, Jelen emerged with 30 songs that explored a central theme: the state of the world is in flux and every choice we make as individuals matters. On a gut instinct, he took this raw feed to producer and Custard label head Linda Perry, who quickly recognized something rare and unique in the soft-spoken 27-year old. With Perry’s support, Jelen found the haven he needed to wheedle his material down to the 13 tracks he ultimately recorded for Ex-Sensitive. “Working with Linda confirmed that my sound was a more vintage one,” he says. “Not a single sample or pre-recorded sound was used, everything was organic. I found myself drawing more from the 60s and 70s than anything else.” The album begins with the call of an Indian sitar, a nod to the month he spent jamming with Eastern classical musicians in Mumbai. This meditation abruptly gives way to the sound of a sitar grinding to a miserable halt. The pause is brief, soon revived by Jelen’s pulsing electric violin and subdued vocals in the title track, singing “feel the rhythm pulsing through the science/one by one connecting who we are.” With this sweeping start, Jelen dives headfirst into a deceptively jaunty call to arms in “Pulse”, followed by “Where Do We Go”, a Beatles-esque love romp that asks how far we’re willing to go for love - of the world. The questions get trickier as Jelen skids into a face-to-face with his own demons in “Vulnerable,” a song he acknowledges is mostly about his own struggle with addiction. Jelen voices his fear that the pressures mounting around him will find him “with a life overrun”. It’s an important admission for the usually private artist. That he chose to include such a revealing song on the album is just a sign of how deeply committed he is to his purpose. After all, Jelen seems to ask, if he can’t even get his own life together, what chance does he have of convincing the Mother of all spurned lovers to forgive and start anew. He pushes the boundaries of this newfound determination in “Wreckage” – the most unabashedly romantic song on the album. A strong contender for the “please-take-me-back-I-love-yooooou” anthem of 2007, the song was actually penned as a heroic appeal to a planet burned – literally - by global warming. Not the most obvious subject matter for a serenade, but with lines like “I can feel the sunrise/barely breaking though the trees/I don’t want to miss you/I don’t want you missing me”, Jelen’s knack for the perfect swoon song is deployed to aching effect. The time Jelen spent working on humanitarian causes profoundly influenced Ex-Sensitive. “I am incapable of ignoring what’s going on around me,” he admits. “World events often affect me as much as personal ones.” In recent years, he found time to work with the Natural Resources Defense Council, tour extensively for Rock the Vote and Live for Darfur, donate charity tracks to , Amnesty International, and Tori Amos’ RAINN, march against global warming, share the stage with Wyclef Jean, Marc Anthony, Moby, Maroon 5, and Rufus Wainwright at benefit concerts across the US, establish the Ben Jelen Foundation for the Environment, protest the war, and do work with the United Nations. He also found the time to craft a big and timely album. But Ex-Sensitive is the beginning not the end of the journey for Jelen. Recording the album has only increased his fascination with music’s potential to move and affect people – physically and emotionally. The possibilities, he believes, are endless. Perry, who will release the album on her Custard label on July 17th, agrees. “Lyrically and melodically Ben’s perspective is creative, visual and beautifully stated. He's the type of artist that will continue to grow because nothing will ever be good enough and in my book, that's what makes a true, genuine artist.” 经典曲目<<come on>> And finally the silence Looking out, looking back across the sky Trying to find a meaning Knowing that I just left it all behind Still I smell a lingering softness Where did she go, How did she go, I wanna wanna know I wanna know that she'll be coming here to me Come on Without you I'll never feel the love inside of me Come on, you know that we belong Come on, come on, come on, come on Thinking back before her I never knew the meaning of alone Still the flag is feeling foreign I live the day to escape into a phone Speaking of a world not real then Where did she go, How did she go, I wanna wanna know I wanna know that she'll be coming here to me Come on Without you I'll never feel the love inside of me Come on, you know that we belong Come on, come on, come on, come on Cause shes sharp for kisses And my heart misses She's coming She's coming here to me I'm needing Desiring to kiss her now I'm living for her Breathing for her Singing for her fairytale Come on Without you I'll never feel the love inside of me Come on, you know that we belong Come on, come on, come on, come on Come on Without you I'll never feel the love inside of me Come on, Come on, come on, come on Come on.. <<slow down>> <<christine>> <<rocks>> <<pulse>> <<where do we go>> <<vulnerable>> <<counting down>> <<short of world>> <<she'll hear you>> <<give it all away>> <<every step>> <<wicked little town>> <<falling down>> <<stay>> <<criminal>> <<setting of the sun>> Ex-Sensitive Ben Jelen的图片 |
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