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| Safe Trip Home is the warm, moving and wonderfully musical third album from Dido, the London-born singer-songwriter with the cracked-crystal voice. The first, you might remember, was No Angel, a record made when Dido was a part-time backing singer with a tiny budget and no label. When that record's heartfelt snap-shots of life were released in 1999, nobody, least of all Dido, expected the album to eventually become the planet's biggest seller of 2001. The similarly affecting follow-up, 2003's Life For Rent, also burrowed its way into millions of hearts, hitting number one in 26 countries and lighting up the airwaves in many more. By the time Dido had toured that record around the world, she was ready for a bit of a breather. |
蒂朵（Dido）出生于倫敦，是一個創(chuàng)作型歌手，她的嗓音清澈而略帶沙啞?！兑宦讽橈L》是她的第三張專輯，非常優(yōu)美的音符中流淌著絲絲溫暖和感動。或許，你還記得她錄制的第一張專輯《無天使》，那時候她還是籍籍無名的兼職合音歌手，沒多少錢，也還沒找到愿意和她簽約的唱片公司。這張真實反映人生百態(tài)的專輯于1999年發(fā)行，包括蒂朵本人在內，沒有人料到它最終能成為2001年最暢銷唱片。與此類似，她在2003年推出的第二張專輯《漂泊的心》也俘虜了數(shù)百萬人的心，這張專輯在26個國家都拿下了銷量排行榜冠軍，專輯里的很多歌曲在很多地方的電視廣播上風靡一時。蒂朵攜這張專輯在全世界各地展開了巡演，直到巡演告一段落，她才決定停下來讓自己喘口氣。 |
| "It was a whirlwind," she says. "When I got back from touring early in 2005, it took a while just to take in what had happened. I was so unprepared for it. As far as I was concerned I was making this little underground record for me to listen to and then, suddenly, eight years later I was getting off this incredible speeding train. I'd had an amazing time, but I guess I needed to take a step back, reconnect with normal life and bring the focus 100 percent back to music." |
“這一切就像一陣旋風，”蒂朵說道，“2005年年初，我結束巡演回來，很長一段時間都不敢接受眼前的事實。我沒有絲毫的心理準備。本來，我只是錄制一張地下專輯給自己聽聽就好；結果，突然之間，八年后我卻得從這趟疾駛的列車上走下來。已經有了一段令人難以置信的經歷，我想我需要退后一步，重新回歸到普通人的生活，百分之百地投入到音樂中。” |
| Although she disappeared from view, Dido took very little time off from music. However, rather than immediately starting to write new songs, she threw herself into playing, whether it be her music or other people's. "I wanted to take some time to become a better musician," she explains. "For the first two albums, any playing I'd done had been used purely for songwriting, which is very different from just playing for fun, like I had as a child. So I spent a lot of time just picking up instruments for playing's sake again. I loved it." |
盡管在舞臺上消失了一陣，蒂朵幾乎還是沒有離開過音樂。然而，她沒有立馬開始創(chuàng)作新歌，而是投身于樂器演奏，無論是演奏自己的音樂還是別人的。“我想花點時間讓自己成為更好的樂手，”她解釋道，“在前兩張專輯的錄制中，我只是單純?yōu)榱藙?chuàng)作歌曲而演奏，這跟小時候只是為了好玩而玩弄樂器相比截然不同。所以，我又花了不少時間去拾起那些樂器，只是為了演奏而演奏。我喜歡這種感覺。” |
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Dido had inadvertently set the tone for Safe Trip Home, a record whose smouldering, soulful songs were to eventually feature her playing guitar, piano, bells and the trusty old recorder she'd toured Europe with as a prodigious pupil of London's Guildhall School of Music. She's even responsible for some of the album's drums (most notably on the sumptuously melancholy Quiet Times).
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蒂朵不經意間就給《一路順風》定下了基調，這部專輯里收錄了一些內斂卻情深意切的歌曲，蒂朵自己演奏了吉它、鋼琴、鐘琴以及一支老直笛，這支直笛是蒂朵當年以倫敦Guildhall音樂學校學生身份在歐洲巡演時，一直陪伴在她身旁的好伙伴。她甚至還在專輯里展現(xiàn)了她的鼓技（這在那首極盡憂郁的《Quiet Times》里表現(xiàn)尤為突出）。
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| When Dido met up with producer, Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Kayne West, Rufus Wainwright, Eels) at London's Abbey Road studios towards the end of 2005, he was blown away by her musicianship. "I realized she had this beautiful feel for playing from the first day I met her," he says. "In fact, if there's anything I'm particularly proud of with this record, it's encouraging Dido to play more instruments. When she plays drums, her groove is magnificent. And her touch on piano is absolutely stunning." |
2005年年底，蒂朵在倫敦艾比路錄音室與制片人瓊·布里昂（曾制作過Fiona Apple、Kayne West、Rufus Wainwright、Eels等藝人的作品）偶然相遇，當時瓊·布里昂就被她的音樂才華所折服。“我第一次遇見她，就意識到她很有演奏樂器的天賦。“他說，“其實，要說起關于這張專輯我特別引以為豪的地方，那就是我鼓勵蒂朵演奏了更多的樂器。她打鼓的感覺非常棒；而且她的鋼琴造詣也極其出眾。”
（China.org.cn 汪瑋 譯）
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