영국 Emily 에밀리 / Fairfield Parlour

 

 

 

Fairfield Parlour 페어필드 팔러

브리티시 포크의 명반이며 뛰어난 감성과 음악성으로 음악팬들을 사로잡았던 Fairfield Parlour의
유일한 앨범인 'From Home To Home ('73)'의 7번 트랙인 Emily.
영국 사이키델릭 록의 전설적인 밴드 Kaleidoscope의 후신인 Fairfield Parlour의
피터와 에디의 트윈 멜로트론 편성의 풍성한 사운드와 시적인 가사, 피터와 에디 두사람의 절묘한 하모니의
보컬로 서정적인 때론 록 비트의 아름다운 포크 음악을 들려준다.

Emily라는 백치여자의 일생을 회화적으로 표현한 'Emily'이다. 침울하면서도기이한 분위기의 오르간 연주,
오버더빙된 코러스와 튜불라 벨즈가 듣는 이의 마음을 무겁게 만들고 있다. 곡의 마지막 부분에서는
약간의 에코 효과를 가미해 저 세상으로 떠나버린 에밀리를 그리워하는 모습을 간절히 나타내고 있다.

(땡큐삐리님 블에서)

 

Kaleidoscope (UK band)
Kaleidoscope were an English psychedelic rock band that were

active between 1967 and 1968. The band's songs were combining the elements of psychedelia with lyrics.

Other than as Kaleidoscope, the band were also known at various times as the Sidekicks, the Key,

I Luv Wight and Fairfield Parlour. <From Wikipedia>

 

 

 

 

Emily / Fairfield Parlour

 

 

  

Emily brought confetti
That she'd made herself by cutting up
Pictures of wedding dresses,
And close-ups of Marlon Brando

 

Emily wore her best suit,
And everyone stared and said,
"My, you look cute!" but she didn't,
Tho her smile was beautiful.

 

Emily sang the loudest,
She was way out of tune,
And her hands were trembling,
But the hymns took her back to her childhood.

 

Emily kissed the bridegroom,
Then she blushed to her toes and said,
"Everyone knows I'm a silly!"
Then she played cats with her fingers.

 

Emily drank the champagne,
She had a smoke the first in forty years,
her eyes filled with tears,
Everyone tried to look away.

 

Emily heard the music,
She tried to dance but fell on her face,
in the middle of the floor,
And all the children yelled for more.

 

Emily lay like silence...
Where they placed her
with the beer and the ashtrays and peanuts,
But they knew she wouldn't move.

 

Emily's in the picture,
And everyone says,
"What a shame she's dead. Oh! but wasn't it fun?
We must try to do it again."

 

Emily brought confetti,
That she'd made herself
by cutting up pictures of wedding dresses,
And close-ups of Marlon Brando.