Préliminaires

假设之前没有确定这是 “朋克教父”Iggy Pop新专辑的话，刚开始听这张《Preliminaires》，或许会以为唱歌的人是Tom Waits或者Leonard Cohen。的确，Iggy Pop这次出其不意地将音乐风格转向了Jazz和Blues，他那历经沧桑的声线本就带着厚重的历史感觉，这次再配上这些慢悠悠的旋律，属于苍老的深邃味道，就这么被Iggy大叔带出来了。

人们总说爵士和电子是音乐人最终会步入的两个领域，而时年62岁的Iggy Pop，看来已经是欣欣然进入到了爵士这其中一个范畴当中了，再回想年轻时那个造出一片朋克、硬摇滚声浪的他，这种归隐似的转型显得平静又颇让人遐想。Iggy Pop的上张录音室专辑是2003年的《Skull Ring》，尽管那会儿的Iggy大叔年纪也不轻了，但还算鲜活有力地玩着朋克，拿《Preliminaires》对比之前的这张《Skull Ring》，那么显然《Preliminaires》就安静得多了。

当然，这张专辑的十二首歌曲并非都由Iggy Pop操刀，在最后一曲当中，Iggy Pop翻唱了相当著名的一曲Jazz歌谣《Les Feuilles Mortes (Marc's Theme)》

听了一下，真的好有那种历史沉淀的感觉，真的不是那种毛头小子能唱出来的，需要阅历很多很多！从听第一首歌开始，你就像进入了一个久远的年代，听着老式留声机发出的优雅的歌声，喝着咖啡，静静的，没人打扰，何等的惬意~

Iggy Pop takes on the language of romance and puts a decidedly French twist on his new album, Préliminaires. Produced by longtime collaborator Hal Cragin (They Might Be Giants, Sarah McLachlan, Rufus Wainwright), Préliminaires, which translates to "foreplay", highlights another facet of the Iggy Pop persona, focusing more on jazz arrangements and the distinctive, rich baritone heard on classics like "Nightclubbing" and his duet with French legend Françoise Hardy on the song "I'll Be Seeing You".

On the record, Iggy even sings one song in French, a cover of jazz standard "Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)", a song widely associated with French legends Yves Montand and Edith Piaf. Other titles include New Orleans influenced "King Of The Dogs", a story about a dog named Fox who explains "how cool it is to be a dog, and how much it beats human life", and "How Insensitive", a jazzy bossanova standard composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim. There are also more raucous moments like the swamp-rock stylings of "Nice To Be Dead".

The visuals for the album were created by French/Iranian graphic novelist and animated film director Marjane Satrapi. Marjane and Iggy met when she asked him to voice one of the characters in the English language version of her Academy-award nominated movie `Persepolis' in 2007.