Coming Up for Air
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| Studio album by Dan Reed | ||||
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Publication |
November 19, 2010 |
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| Label (s) | ZeroOne / AOR Heaven | |||
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Title (number) |
13 |
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running time |
61:06 |
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Coming Up for Air is the first music album by the US singer and songwriter Dan Reed .
background
Dan Reed was the singer of the Portland ( Oregon ) band Dan Reed Network in the 1980s . After the end of the band in 1992, Reed turned to other projects ("Adrenaline Sky" (1996-1998), "G-13" (1998-2000) and "Odyssey" (2000-2001)) and became a co-owner of a nightclub in Portland and withdrew more and more from commercial music. After the death of his father, Reed went to India , traveled to Asia and lived at times as a guest with Tibetan monks . He also met some Israeli musicians and in 2006 decided to move to Jerusalem . After living and working there for some time, and in particular making music, Dan Reed first returned to Portland to record his new CD.
For Coming Up for Air , in addition to typical instruments of pop music such as guitar , drums , bass and keyboard , violin and piano as well as some Asian instruments such as B. a Chinese harp is used.
reception
The reviewer said Jochen King of musikreviews.de, Coming Up for Air be "a silent and brooding album," the "ambitious lyrically, but not loud" was. "Several highlights" made up for the "occasional fishing in shallow pop waters" . The production was described as "clear and clean" , it also refined Coming Up for Air . König gave 10 out of 15 possible points in his evaluation.
Track list
- 4:29 - Coming Up for Air
- 3:32 - Losing My Fear
- 4:05 - Closer
- 5:32 - On Your Side
- 4:32 - Brave New World
- 4:50 - Feels Like Home
- 4:26 - Middle of Nowhere
- 4:34 - Sacred Ground
- 5:10 - Reach for the Sun
- 5:03 - Candlelight
- 4:50 - Promised Land
- 4:40 - Pray for Rain
- 4:56 - The Dictator