We/or/Me - Everything Behind Us Is a Dream (2016)
BAND/ARTIST: We/or/Me
- Title: Everything Behind Us Is a Dream
- Year Of Release: 2016
- Label: Self Released
- Genre: Folk, Modern Folk, Singer-Songwriter
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 00:36:22
- Total Size: 159 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. The Dusty Roads
02. The Long Good-Bye
03. Dreaming Heart
04. Currents of Time
05. Always / Sometimes
06. Orla Brown
07. Sea Wall
08. Haifa Bay
09. Half-Light
10. Gather Up My Bones
11. Slow Dance Dream
We/Or/Me is the musical alias of Bahhaj Taherzadeh, quite possibly the world’s only Persian-Irish singer/songwriter. Born and raised in Dublin to an Iranian father and an Irish mother, Taherzadeh now lives in Chicago where he has plied his trade as a manuscript editor and writer over the years. Steeped in storytelling traditions on both sides of his lineage, Taherzadeh, a self-taught musician from a decidedly non-musical family, started to write songs in the mid-2000s, rarely sharing them with anyone apart from a few close friends. This all changed suddenly with the encouragement of Glen Hansard, who literally called Taherzadeh to the stage one night during a set of his own, and told him it was time to sing a song. That moment, coming after the two had shared an inspiring conversation on a rainy Dublin street a week prior, set Taherzadeh on a path he has been walking ever since. It has been a long and winding one that has seen him share the stage with the likes of Mumford and Sons, Laura Marling, the Swell Season, and Mt. Eerie to name just a few.
In 2009, after becoming the father of twins, Taherzadeh became obsessed with using what little free time he had creatively. He started to write songs in his car on his lunch breaks at work, recording them at night while his daughters slept. The daily/nightly routine yielded a string of self-produced releases that drew admiration from the likes of NPR Music, Glen Hansard, Vashti Bunyan, and producer Brian Deck. (Bunyan became a collaborator, singing on 2013’s The Walking Hour, which Deck mixed).
Everything Behind Us is a Dream is his first studio record and the first wide-scale We/Or/Me release. Produced by Adam Selzer (M. Ward, Decemberists), it was recorded in the space of four days at Portland's Type Foundry Studio with several of the city’s finest session musicians dropping in to fill out the sound. The result is a warm, often haunting meditation on memory, identity, and mortality that harkens back to the tone of some of the great singer/songwriter records of the 60s and 70s.
01. The Dusty Roads
02. The Long Good-Bye
03. Dreaming Heart
04. Currents of Time
05. Always / Sometimes
06. Orla Brown
07. Sea Wall
08. Haifa Bay
09. Half-Light
10. Gather Up My Bones
11. Slow Dance Dream
We/Or/Me is the musical alias of Bahhaj Taherzadeh, quite possibly the world’s only Persian-Irish singer/songwriter. Born and raised in Dublin to an Iranian father and an Irish mother, Taherzadeh now lives in Chicago where he has plied his trade as a manuscript editor and writer over the years. Steeped in storytelling traditions on both sides of his lineage, Taherzadeh, a self-taught musician from a decidedly non-musical family, started to write songs in the mid-2000s, rarely sharing them with anyone apart from a few close friends. This all changed suddenly with the encouragement of Glen Hansard, who literally called Taherzadeh to the stage one night during a set of his own, and told him it was time to sing a song. That moment, coming after the two had shared an inspiring conversation on a rainy Dublin street a week prior, set Taherzadeh on a path he has been walking ever since. It has been a long and winding one that has seen him share the stage with the likes of Mumford and Sons, Laura Marling, the Swell Season, and Mt. Eerie to name just a few.
In 2009, after becoming the father of twins, Taherzadeh became obsessed with using what little free time he had creatively. He started to write songs in his car on his lunch breaks at work, recording them at night while his daughters slept. The daily/nightly routine yielded a string of self-produced releases that drew admiration from the likes of NPR Music, Glen Hansard, Vashti Bunyan, and producer Brian Deck. (Bunyan became a collaborator, singing on 2013’s The Walking Hour, which Deck mixed).
Everything Behind Us is a Dream is his first studio record and the first wide-scale We/Or/Me release. Produced by Adam Selzer (M. Ward, Decemberists), it was recorded in the space of four days at Portland's Type Foundry Studio with several of the city’s finest session musicians dropping in to fill out the sound. The result is a warm, often haunting meditation on memory, identity, and mortality that harkens back to the tone of some of the great singer/songwriter records of the 60s and 70s.
Year 2016 | Folk | FLAC / APE
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