Tom Waits: Blood Money
- 1 Misery is the river of the world Start
- 2 Everything goes to hell Start
- 3 Coney Island baby Start
- 4 All the world is green Start
- 5 God's away on business Start
- 6 Another man's vine Start
- 7 Knife chase Start
- 8 Lullaby Start
- 9 Starving in the belly of a whale Start
- 10 The part you throw away Start
- 11 Woe Start
- 12 Calliope Start
- 13 A good man is hard to find Start
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Blood Money is based on the socio / political play "Woyzeck," originally written by a young German poet Georg Buchner as a spare, cinematic piece in 1837 and inspired by the true story of a German soldier who was driven mad by bizarre army medical experiments and infidelity, which led him to murder his lover. Waits, along with wife and collaborator Kathleen Brennan, wrote songs for an avant-garde production of "Woyzeck" directed by Robert Wilson, which premiered in November 2000 at the Betty Nansen Theater in Copenhagen and went on to win Denmark's version of the Tony for Best Musical. The album careens from the brutal to the tender with assaulting rhythms and romantic melodies. It's a grim musical deposition on the human condition, a dark mortality play where Tin Pan Alley meets the Weimer Republic."Blood Money is flesh and bone, earthbound," said Waits. "The songs are rooted in reality: jealousy, rage, the human meat wheel...They are more carnal. I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth. I like songs to sound as though they've been aging in a barrel and distressed." (tomwaits. com)Press comments
C. Lindemann in Musikexpress 5 / 02: "Blood Money" ver- sammelt die Songs, die Waits und Ehefrau für die Neu- auflage von Büchners Woyzeck komponierten, die 2000 in Kopenhagen uraufgeführt wurde."EUR 11.99
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