스웨덴 출신의 안드레아스 존슨(Andreas Johnson)은 1999년에 내놓은 싱글 'Glorious'로 당시 유럽과 아시아, 특히 국내에서 절대적인 사랑을 받았던 가수이다. 그의 세계시장 데뷔작인 에 수록된 'Glorious'는 우리네 정서에 부합되는 멜랑콜리 선율과 드라마틱함을 부각시키는 오케스트레이션, 차갑고도 서정미 넘치는 신시사이저, 그리고 깔끔한 편곡이 어울리면서 그해 말 최고의 FM 방송 횟수를 기록하는 기염을 토했다. 이 때문에 그는 1년 뒤인 2000년 내한하여 쇼케이스 및 기자회견을 갖으며 많은 관심을 불러 일으켰다.
무언가를 갈구하듯 꿈속을 헤매는 듯한 몽롱함과 질주감으로 무장한 이 곡은 1999년을 뛰어넘어 2년이 지난 지금에도 라디오에서 심심찮게 리퀘스트되며 확실한 골든 레퍼토리로 자리잡아가고 있는 중이다. 이는 안드레아스 존슨이 미국 시장에서 찬바람을 맞은 것과는 매우 대조적인데, 그것은 예전부터 국내 팬들만이 선호하는 음악 색깔이 따로 있음을 말해주는 결과가 하겠다.
그때까지 국내는 물론이고, 지구촌에서 명함 한 장 제대로 내밀지 못했던 안드레아스 존슨은 그러나 자국인 스웨덴에서는 어느 정도 지명도를 가지고 있던 보컬리스트. 재즈 뮤지션으로 활동했던 부모님 덕분에 일찌감치 음악에 대한 감수성을 체득한 그는 미국을 비롯한 여러 나라를 돌아다니며 다양한 음악을 접하며 경험을 쌓아나갔다. 이후 펑크 밴드 플래닛 웨이브스(Planet Waves)를 결성하여 1995년 를 내놓았고, 그룹 해산 후 1997년 어쿠스틱 컨트리 스타일의 솔로 작품 를 발표하며 인기를 얻었다.
지금까지 세 장을 작품을 선보였지만, 그 속에 담겨있는 그의 사운드 스펙트럼은 재즈, 펑크, 컨트리, 포크, 모던 록 등 깊고도 넓다. 그의 음악 공력이 단순히 'Glorious'의 블록에 갇혀있지만은 않다는 것을 분명히 보여주는 대목이라 할 수 있다. 이런 사실은 이번에 공개되는 그의 세 번째 솔로 작품인 에서 더욱 확연히 나타난다.
전작 의 투어 기간에 틈나는 대로 만들었던 노래들 중 13곡을 엄선하여 녹음한 신보는 첫 싱글로 내정된 'Shine'부터 안드레아스 존슨과 'Glorious'부터 이미 그의 사운드를 책임지고 있는 프로듀서 피터 크빈트(Peter Kvint)의 변화에 대한 의지를 읽을 수 있다. 빠르게 움직이는 중독성 강한 키보드 사운드와 브릿 팝의 전통을 따르고 있는 애수에 젖은 보컬, 그리고 자극적인 후렴구가 인상적인 이 곡은 웅장함으로 대표됐던 이전의 그의 카리스마와는 다른 모습이다.
물론 'Shine'을 제외하고 대부분의 트랙들은 과거에 내세웠던 음악적 노선을 그대로 고수하고 있다. 현악 사운드가 더해져 풍성한 느낌을 전해주는 모던 록 'End Of The World', 안드레아스 존슨의 보컬이 점차 상승해가며 극적인 전개를 펼쳐내는 발라드 넘버 'Waterfall', 질퍽한 감정의 늪에 푹 빠져있는 보컬이 압권인 팝/록 'Great Undying Love' 등이 웅변해준다.
또한 'My Love (Song For A Butterfly)'는 'Glorious'의 영광을 재현하려는 듯 매우 비슷한 곡 구조와 형식미를 취하고 있고, 'The Pretty Ones'는 달콤쌉싸름한 향기가 나는 로큰롤이다. 차분함이 두드려졌던 에 비해 조금은 밝고 경쾌해졌지만, 전체적인 스타일은 거의 흡사하다.
그러나 안드레아스 존슨이 안정적이고 검증 받았던 자신의 음악 루트를 살짝 비켜나서 다분히 변모된 색채를 띤 노래를 일 순위로 미는 것은 모험이지만, 한편으로는 더 큰 가능성을 위한 열린 선택이다. 오직 'Glorious'를 부른 스웨덴의 조그만 도시 룬드 태생의 싱어가 아니라 다채로운 음악을 폭넓게 소화하고 들려주며 세계적으로 인정받는 아티스트로 거듭나기 위해서 말이다. 바로 안드레아스 존슨의 신작 는 그것을 향한 힘찬 전초전이다. -수록곡- 1. Shine (Johnson) - 3:43 2. End of the World (Johnson) - 4:16 3. Waterfall (Johnson) - 4:20 4. The Greatest Day (Johnson) - 3:56 5. Brand New Thing (Johnson) - 2:50 6. Spirit of You (Johnson) - 3:47 7. Great Undying Love (Johnson) - 4:37 8. Deadly Happy (Johnson) - 2:58 9. The Pretty Ones (Johnson) - 3:13 10. This Time (Johnson) - 3:14 11. Make Me Beautiful (Johnson) - 3:54 12. My Love (Song for a Butterfly) (Johnson) - 3:36 13. Starcrossed (Johnson) - 3:48 .... ....
Sunday morning you wake up This might be the perfect day You turn to me and whisper And I agree to what you say In every little move we make In every single way we come together The spirit of your love is so strong It's bringing me down This time This time Sunday morning we find ourselves Fading from a photograph Well you let the daylight in Now you wonder why this love won't last In every little move we make In every single way we come together The spirit of your love is so strong It's bringing me down This time This time Now this won't hurt you Now this won't make you feel so bad No this won't hurt you In every little move we make In every single way we come together The spirit of your love is so strong It's bringing me down This time This time
When she arrives... it’s already over When she allows me in... I’m already gone Into the wild space Where in that cool face Watching my honeydrop explode Those honey lips won’t leave me cold When she escapes with me... honeydrop is all I need When she arrives... I crush out of slumber When she belongs to me... I’m already under Where in that cool face Into her wild space Watching my honeydrop explode Those honey lips won’t leave me cold When she escapes with me... honeydrop is all I need When she arrives everything will come so clear When she arrives all my bad will disappear Into her wild space Watching my honeydrop explode Those honey lips won’t leave me cold When she escapes with me... honeydrop is all I need Ooh, honeydrop is all I need Beneath the waves I'm free The honeydrop is all I see When she arrives...
What seed will grow and last Penetrate the piles of trash Ooh child, when everything you know... Is images of broken dreams Scattered hearts and vicious schemes Ooh child, don't you go... Where dead trees cast no shadow Blackbirds no relief, the dry stone... no spring of water Only in your mother's arms, you will be free Only in your mother's arms, you will be... UNBREAKABLE If I could show you something else than the shadow, who follows you in the morning And who grows to meet you up at night Intoxicated you come alive In search for god, he passes you by Ooh child, ain't that fate... As dead trees cast no shadow Blackbirds no relief, and the dry stone... no spring of water Only in your mother's arms, you will be free Only when your high enough, you will be... unbreakable Unbreakable... Unbreakable
Home, it's good to be back home If only just for half a day, if only just for now Time, were moving out of time If only we could stay away, if only we could stay... Safe, someday my love we will be safe Somewhere above we will be safe from harm Safe from harm Clouds, hanging down below If only we could stay above, if only we could stay... Safe, somewhere above we will be safe... Someday my love we will be safe from harm Safe, safe like dream when it's safe Safe like a child when it's... safe from harm Now you... you lead me through your door... But will you be around for me when I come back for more... Safe, somewhere above we will be safe Someday my love will be safe from harm Safe, safe in a dream we will be safe Safe like a child when it's... safe from harm
Waiting for a sign, a touch of your grace To carry me home, under these waves... I'm slipping... Crying like a child for the day to begin, to follow your breeze, hunted by your skin I'm slipping So please, do me right woman Cause I'm hanging by a thread, far from divine Wish I could flourish and speed up the time... I'm slipping... I'm sliding down... So please, do me right woman Please, do me right woman Do me right woman, enter my space... Fragile and pure... I will follow your pace Just do me right woman... please... I've taken all your wisdom, but my plate is not filled My spirit is not calm, my soul yet to be thrilled And my heart has not got enough... I'm still slipping... So please, do me right woman Please, do me right woman Just do me right now
In a city of cream, were floating by Like creeps and tarts under neon skies In colours of green, scarlet and blue Dhe's taking my hand... leading me to... S secret room, I can feel her breath Her body is tanned, my head in a mess Yhe flavour is sweet, god-given bright... Master of intelligence won't find me tonight All these beautiful faces, taking me places Leaving me spaceless... All these beautiful faces, taking me places I'm coming home... in a stretchout car, on a lowside street She's pulling me close, to make me complete The colour is green, turning to red Her fingers are crossed over my head... All these beautiful faces, taking me places Leaving me spaceless... All these beautiful faces, taking me places I'm coming home...Tonight... In a city of cream, were floating by Like creeps and tarts under neon skies All these beautiful faces, taking me places Leaving me spaceless... All these beautiful faces, taking me places I'm coming home tonight...
She's like an angel watching over me She's all the beauty god provides to see Ooh when she comes, she'll make me the one Until that day I'm waiting patiently She's like a sunbeam floating through my mind Within this dark room, she might rise and shine Ooh when she aches, I'm the one that she breaks Until that day I'm waiting patiently All my love changing everyday, in shapes of blue All my love stuck inside a dream... of you Until that day comes shining over me... Ooh when she needs I'm the one that she leaves Until that day I'm waiting patiently All my love changing everyday, in shapes of blue All my love kept inside a box... saved for you Until your love comes shining over me... Until that day I'm waiting patiently
Lay down by my side, the truth won't hurt me now Even in this last goodbye, there is beauty we can't deny Maybe, maybe, maybe it's a crime dear... Maybe, maybe, maybe I don't want to see Why you give yourself away... when...
It should have been me, should have been my love It should have been me, should have been my kind of love Escape with me tonight, this moment is all there is When the morning comes we're cast aside, now there's farewell in every kiss You stumble through emotions with great and deep concern You cross my line of defence, you know how weakness makes me yearn Then you throw my love away, afraid of what you see Hell, you ought to know by now...
It should have been me, should have been my love It should have been me, should have been my kind of love When you walk beside him down the aisle in your brilliant wedding dress When the ring is on your finger, and he wants you to get undressed Will you fall into his arms, will you set his spirit free, will he ever get to know... It should have been me Maybe, maybe, maybe I'm alone here Maybe, maybe, maybe I don't want to see When you give yourself away... It should have been me, should have been my love It should have been me, should have been my kind of love
Some made of steel, some made of glass Some made to go where others won't pass Some made to rule, the grand master mind Some to lose for others to find Now everybody is running for something Now that the dream is gone, developed, disguised Into a giant cable show... and you want more Well you deserve more like immortality, extension Dope, religion, sex and surgery Guess I'm slipping out of the poetry class here
So many people, with so much to say So many people, makin' news today
Some made to sing, now will you sing along Some made like god, and they can't be wrong Some made of gold, some made of stone Some with the confidence to bring it all home Now everybody's got to be on time... be on time... Free, equal, successful, way ahead... for what I don't know... but it sure feels great running... I guess...
So many people, with so much to say So many people, makin' news today
So let me be your lover, let me be your clown Let me be your money, you can spend me all around Let me love you down Some grow big, some grow small Some grow fast, some not at all Some made to glow, some made to shine, some to burn just for a brief moment of time... like...
So many people, with so much to say So many people, makin' news today
So let me be your lover, let me be your clown Let me be your money, you can spend me all around Just let me love you down
One taste of that lovely spice The flavour of you honeydrop sweet One taste and no thinkin' twice Tonight as lover we meet One touch of those tender lips The spirit you bring I'll never exhale One word that slowly sips Tonight our love just can't fall In Gods universe We let ourselves go In Gods universe we're a starcrossed One glance those lovely eyes To whom I always will return One love under velvet skies Tonight a starcrossed we burn In Gods universe We let ourselves go In Gods universe we're starcrossed One bite of that deadly fruit The bitter sweetness surrounds my heart One last kiss for the exit route Tonight as starcrossed we part In Gods universe We let ourselves go In gods we're starcrossed One more death for the protocol The last waltz by the poison thorn One more death in complete control Tonight as starcrossed we're born
The way you crash into my space The way you dance into the light A butterfly beyond my reach Your beauty wears me out tonight It tears me up inside My love if you were my love If I was your star If you were my love I would never let you down The way you drown in his arms into The way you keep him satisfied A fatal kiss a lethal scent Your colours fade to black and white I lose myself so fundamentally My love if you were my love If I was your star If you were my love I would never let you down Feel my love Seek my love tonight The way you fall before his feet The way you dance into his light A butterfly My love If you were my love If I was your star If you were my love I would never let you down Love if you were my love If I was you star if you were my love I would never let you down Never let you down Never let you down
Let me introduce you To my world at night Come wrap your arms around The dreams I hold inside And I'll bring you whatever you want Whatever you need Whatever your heart desires You make me beautiful so beautiful You make me lose it all You're so beautiful to me Won't you please seduce me With your grace and holy wine Take me to your chambers Release this heart if mine And I'll bring you whatever you want Whatever you need whatever your heart requires You make me beautiful so beautiful You make me lose it all You're so beautiful to me Let me introduce you To my world at night Come wrap your arms around The dreams I hold inside You make me beautiful so beautiful You make me lose it all You're so beautiful To me Let's bleed into the night vanish disappeared In lovers lust and cold desire drink the wine Of our destiny and explode in glorious colours As daybreak wraps its arms around us
What a pretty thing to say What a pretty thought to think When the nights is closing in We star together And it's a never-ending show It's the everlasting dream When you feel its time to go We go together We are the pretty ones we are The pretty ones And we, we really don't give a damn No we really don't give a damn We are the pretty ones What a perfect crime we are What a perfect life we lead When the lights are turning low We are forever In this everlasting show In this never ending scheme When you feel it's time to leave We leave together We are the pretty ones We are the pretty ones And we, we really don't give a damn No we really don't give a damn We are the pretty ones Maybe we're falling apart Maybe our love is not enough We are the pretty ones We are the pretty ones And we, we really don't give a damn No we really don't give a damn We are the pretty ones And we really don't give a damn We are the pretty ones
Dance my lover dance Tonight I belong to you Untie my feet and hands And show me the way to move Kiss me ? happy ? just kiss me baby We would be so deadly happy Just teach me baby To be deadly happy Sway my lover sway Tonight I'll be yours alone So please untie my feet and hands Tomorrow I'll be gone Kiss me ? happy ? just kiss me baby We could be so deadly happy Just teach me baby To be deadly happy Mmmm
Watch the break through the silence Drama fills up the air And she looks like a goddess rising A touch of gold in her hair Here it comes again The one and great undying love I lose my head again As her love shines on How I wish that she could belong In my arms Here she comes like a sunset To turn my blue into purple red And she spreads like the star at night Her silver over hearts unfed Here it comes again The one and the great undying love I lose my head again As her love shines on How I wish that she could belong In my arms Here she comes to rescue me rescue me rescue me She's all and everything Everything I need She comes to bring me back take me home Set me free Here it comes again The one and great undying love I lose my head again The one and great undying love Here it comes again The one and great undying love I lose my head again As her love shines on How I wish that she could be strong in my arms In my arms
Days in a dream sleepy and sunny My lips to your mouth for that sweet taste of honey Your faith is strong and bullet proof As my hearth is weak and intoxicated by the spirit of you Your love is cruel dark as night You still look so divine when you enter my room in that dandy light This thing is a crime and some bird might sing But if connections right we might get away with almost anything The spirit of you The spirit of you What I'm to do When I'm down by the spirit of you Days in a dream sleepy and sunny My lips to your mouth for that sweet taste of honey Well your faith is strong and bullet proof As my heart is weak and intoxicated by the Spirit of you You The spirit of you What I'm to do When I'm down by the spirit of you We gonna rise we gonna fall this might be the final call Well I don't mind I don't care I'm not afraid I'm not that scared As I'm slowly drowning in your arms I feel bullet proof And safe from harm any harm The spirit of you
O yeah, you better shake 'em bones You better get a grip Well here it comes it's all over the screen It's gonna penetrate you and leave you stripped O yeah o yeah You better make that move get that swing Be on time It's a brand new thing A brand new thing You better get on top Before it hits the ground Take it on inhale it's juices be self assured So it can't bring you down O yeah it's a brand new thing It's a brand new thing It's a brand new thing You better make that move get it the ring Throw a punch at the brand new thing Looks like a better day A new design I don't know what it is but it's said to be different So rearrange before you are left behind Oh yeah It's a brand new thing It's a brand new thing It's a brand new thing I don't know what it is but I want it all I don't know about the answer but I've got the call It could be the second coming of the Great divine I don't know if it's good But I think I love the design It's a brand new thing (3) O yeah!
Caught the mystic in your eyes Black as ink and dark as night You run your fingers through my hair Your eyes speak what my mouth won't dare to say Never let me go ? I swear Baby today will be the greatest day of all And you will be everything you want to be today Baby this is the greatest day. Caught the weakness in your smile A sign of something that you can't deny You look so peaceful when you say This mad existence I would never ever give away So never let me go my love Baby today will be the greatest day Of all and you will be everything Want to be today Baby this is the greatest day Baby the world on your shoulders Baby it soon will be over So take this time and make the greatest day Caught the mystic in your eyes Black as ink and sweet as the stars at night
You say time will set us free We sure could use a new direction Our friends are lost and so are we We're left on hold there's no connection Darling It takes a lot of love to let it go To free your mind your body and soul And it takes a lot of faith to let it show Together we rise together we flow Down the waterfall So we leave the world behind Dream away from all the fiction Within this space we're growing wild Tonight we shine from holy friction Oh my pearl It takes a lot of love to let it go To free your mind your body and soul And it takes a lot of faith to let it show Together we rise together we flow Down the waterfall Hold on hold tight waterfall Be strong be light It takes a lot of love to let it go To free your mind your body and soul And it takes a lot of faith to let it show Together we rise together we flow Down the waterfall You ain't heavy you ain't heavy my pearl Down the waterfall You ain't heavy you ain't heavy baby girl Down the waterfall
Babe you try to sail the world on your own You try but you sink like a stone You feel a little lost but hey Babe there's so many things left to see A little harbour just for you and me We can make it if we only believe We tear it up ? we move along It's a different beat a different song This is not the end of the world It's the beginning of a brand new day You know time waits for no one This is not the end of the world It's the start of a getaway You know time waits for no one (Babe pack your suitcase and get ready to go We got the whole world to overthrow Ain't got the money but we go know how) Hey now babe there is nothing left here to prove We try to push it but I just won't move We got the rhythm now we want the groove Let's tear it up ? feel the breeze Move along baby please This is not the end of the world It's the beginning of a brand new day You know time waits for no one This is not the end of the world It's the start of a getaway You know time waits for no one And no one waits for time Seems so hollow hollow hollow But you now time Feels no sorrow sorrow sorrow This is not the end of the world It's the beginning of a brand new day You know time waits for no one This is not the end of the world It's the start of a getaway You know time waits for no one No one No one And all we need it's time
내 사랑 안드레아스 욘슨. 한 번이라도 볼 수 있을까. 스웨덴과 한국이라는
이 엄청난 간극. 07년도 발매된 그의 베스트 앨범은 울 나라에선 구할 수도 없다.
어찌어찌 파일만 구해 듣고 있는데 다 들었던 노래들이긴 해도 그래도 좋다.
몇몇 곡들은 내 스타일 아니지만-_-ㅎㅎ
베스트 앨범이 나왔다는 사실을 엊그제 알고서 미친듯이 찾아 들었는...
99년에 안드레아스 존슨(욘슨이라고도 한다)의 1집 Liebling 수록곡.Liebling은 독일어로 '연인'이라는 뜻이랬나. 뭐 그랬다.대학 다닐 때 이 사람에게 반해가지구(어쩌다 반했는지는 기억이 안 나)스웨덴의 이 사람 홈페이지 운영자에게 메일을 보내서이 사람의 싱글 앨범이며 발매 안 된 다른 앨범까지 다 구하는쌩 쇼를 벌...
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