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Ani DiFranco - Reprieve

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Format: CD
Catalog: 52
Rel. Date: 08/08/2006
UPC: 748731705220

Reprieve
Artist: Ani DiFranco
Format: CD
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Every new album from singer-songwriter-guitarist Ani DiFranco gives listeners a reason to get excited about music all over again and her latest collection of songs is no exception: 13 tracks featuring her signature bledn of poetry, politics and dazzing musicianship. Recorded primarily in her home studio in pre-Katrina New Orleans with bassists Todd Sickafoose, REPRIEVE is the clearest demonstration yet of ani's tlaents as a producer, crafting an overall sound as clear, precise and succint as her lyrics have always been.

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''Reprieve'' is the fifteenth studio album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released on August 8, 2006.

Righteous Babe Records' website notes that only DiFranco's bassist Todd Sickafoose, who had accompanied her on her recent tours, would be performing on the album. The album has a dark, mournful, mellow sound reminiscent of 1999's ''To the Teeth'' and 2004's ''Educated Guess'' and features experimental arrangements with synthesizers, electronics and tape manipulation.

As the recording of the album was briefly interrupted due to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the album has a heavily political and vaguely conceptual undercurrent that "paints a haunting portrait of New Orleans as the water retreats and the natives continue to rebuild their lives."

The album cover was inspired by a picture of a real tree in Nagasaki which was partially destroyed by the atomic bomb. While the city around it lay in ruin, this one tree stood, half of it destroyed, the other untouched. DiFranco also references the eucalyptus tree in the title track about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

While the official release date of ''Reprieve'' was August 8, the album was made available for purchase on the iTunes Music Store between June 24 and June 27, 2006, possibly in error, as the album date on the site was listed as 2002. - Wikipedia

        
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