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C
I had a plan
Am Em F
That was built on thinking to long
C
Canadian winters
Am Em
At home with your sisters
F C
the romance was hard to ignore
F
You were beautiful
C Am Em F
I was happy to fall
C Am Em F
So happy to fall

C
I remember you searching
Am Em
I thought you were searching
F C
that´s how I picked up the phone
F Em
Happy to hear you remembered the view
Am F
So glad to assume it was fate
C
I thought at the time it was clear
F C Em F
I thought at the time it was clear

C Em F
C Em F
C Em F F

C
So I stood at the station
Am Em F
With a plan and a pocket of poems
C
Heroically tragic
Am Em F
Bearded and blind with obsession
C
I´m a car without hope
Am Em F
Too close to the ditch to go far
C
I showed you my field
Am Em
I said this is my field
F
But you weren´t impressed

C Em F
C Em F
You said why are we here
C Em F
Your motives are clear
C
In this room with a view
Em F
and so much of you
C F
is so far from here
C F
it’s so far from here
C F
it’s so far from here

it’s so far from here

Instrumental interlude:
C Am Em F X8
C Am Em F F
C Am Em F

C Am
Oh my heart
Em F
It just fell apart
C
And i wished I could show you
Am Em
The same view
F C
of you by the window and me
Em F
feeling fine
C Em F
And me just feeling fine
C Em F
Yeah me just feeling fine

C

     Mojave 3 arose from the ashes of Slowdive in 1994. Rachel Goswell, Neil Halstead and Ian McCutcheon decided that while distorted, ambient soundscapes were fun, they’d made three albums worth of them, and it was time for a change of course - for simple songs that could be written and played on an acoustic guitar. The newly-named trio recorded a hushed and magical collection of demos which swiftly brought them a new home (4AD) and subsequently emerged almost unaltered as their first album, Ask Me Tomorrow.

     The band had expanded their ranks by the time that they came to make Out Of Tune a couple of years later - Alan Forrester signed up, complete with Hammond C3 organ, as had Simon “Rosie” Rowe (from the recently-deceased Chapterhouse) who was enlisted primarily to contribute rootsy, Robbie Robertson-inspired guitar lines. When asked to describe the difference between their first and second albums, Halstead responded, with characteristic self-deprecating humour, that they had pushed their sound on “from slow country to mid-slow tempo country-rock… right on!” In fact, Out Of Tune was a collection of slow-burning classics and gemlike songwriting - tracks from that era, like “Give What You Take” and “Some Kinda Angel”, remain much-loved cornerstones of the Mojave live experience.

     Having paid their dues on the road in America and elsewhere, the band regrouped at the end of 1999 to make a third album. Financial constraints too tangled to go into here meant that Excuses for Travellers - eventually released in May 2000 - was made on a shoestring, but this had very little impact on the rich quality of the material. Mojave 3 stretched out luxuriously, offering languid, bewitching melancholia like “My Life In Art” and “In Love With A View” alongside the deceptively jaunty single “Return To Sender”. Their reward was a continued expansion of their fanbase, and the band toured once again in front of the warm audiences of their American spiritual home.

     Mojave 3 took a back seat during 2002 as Neil concentrated on a wonderful solo record called Sleeping On Roads - a collection of songs which allowed him to explore both slightly more experimental areas - the motorik pulse of “See You On Rooftops”, for example - and the intimate lyrical concerns of “Two Stones In My Pocket” and “Martha’s Mantra”. Halstead described the record as Bert Jansch recorded by Spiritualized, which isn’t a million miles away.

     This impulse to experiment may have left a permanent legacy - certainly, when the next Mojave 3 album appeared, it was something of a departure for the band. Spoon And Rafter was mostly recorded in the band’s own studio located “in a field smelling of cow-shit” just outside Newquay, Cornwall, and the band responded to the lack of pressure on studio time by making some of their most ambitious and kaleidoscopic music.

The scene was set by the opening track “Bluebird Of Happiness”, all nine glorious minutes of it - Spoon And Rafter is an album composed and recorded in widescreen technicolour. While songs like “Billoddity” and “Starlite #1″ were as melodically memorable as anything else the band had recorded, they were characterised by a luxurious sense of space and lavish attention to detail in the arrangements - analogue synthesisers, acoustic guitars and pedal steel all arriving in warm, affirmative layers. “Battle Of The Broken Hearts”, a multifaceted epic lurking at the heart of the album, only confirmed its gentle but thoroughgoing ambition.

     The following year - 2004 - saw Rachel Goswell join Neil on the solo trail with Waves Are Universal. The record was a quiet triumph, majoring on organic, natural atmospheres and simple, folky melodies; it was stunningly beautiful and widely acclaimed. Ian has also been making productive use of his downtime, forming his own band, The Loose Salute; a debut album is currently in the works.

     Which brings us to the band’s fifth album Puzzles Likes You, set for release in summer 2006. Once again, it sees the band moving on - this time in a slightly unexpected direction.

     Because, as Neil suggested in a recent interview with Pitchfork, the songs that make up the record are more immediate - poppy, even - than anything he and the band have written before. Puzzles Like You is filled with the life-affirming light of Mojave 3’s Cornish base - splashed with sunlight and the heady sparkle of summertime waves. The songs - taking their cue from the soaring lead-off single “Breaking The Ice” - fizz past, brimming with renewed confidence.

      This effervescent poise is all the more impressive given that the album had a somewhat troubled genesis - its first incarnation was fully completed when a horde of mice decided to infest the studio, running amok among the band’s equipment and making a general nuisance of themselves. This created technical mayhem and caused considerable delays as well. Fortunately, an angel was waiting in the wings in the shape of Victor Van Vugt (PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Beth Orton, Luna, Athlete) who stepped into the breach, took the recordings to his New York City studio, and completed a set of wonderful mixes in short order.

     As a result, the melodic lilt of tracks like “Puzzles Like You”, “Running With Your Eyes Closed” and “Big Star Baby” shines sweetly through, while the wistful introspection of “Most Days” and “You Said It Before” is redeemed by warm tones and the deftest of sonic placement.

     All of which means that Puzzles Like You is the most approachable, infectious and downright fun record that Mojave 3 have ever made - a fact reflected in the exuberant artwork supplied by artist / film director Thomas Campbell (whose film Sprout majored on Mojave and Halstead music) and the marvellously quirky video for “Breaking The Ice” directed by Bradley Beesley (Flaming Lips). It seems set, like all of its predecessors, to bring the band a wider audience - and when people fall under the spell of Mojave 3’s subtle and gorgeous music, they tend to stick around.

以下文章转自([音乐碟评]哀伤与浪漫 ——记4AD公司的MOJAVE3 )

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      站在倾盆大雨下痛哭失声的人而言，永远也无法体会那种伤心欲绝的心情；然而，对於爱情有著深刻烙痕的人来讲，许多的事与心情又是如此的难以言说，或许早已看透冷暖，也探透爱情的温度。然而，许多感情事是否该放开，还是深锁，都是难以取舍的决定……。由 Mojave 3推出的第三张专辑《Excusesfor Travellers》便是这麼一张叙述心情在每一段恋曲中流浪的小品。 

      由吉他手兼主唱 Neil Halstead、贝斯手兼主唱RachelGoswell和鼓手Ian McCutcheon三人共同领导的Mojave3，最早是从传奇 Shoegazing名团Slowdive转衍而来的队伍。然而在经历过不断自我创作上的蜕变与自我要求，尽管目前团员增加至五人，但如同他们的前两张专辑一样，这张众人期盼已久的新专辑仍是一张谈述漂泊或幻灭的种种故事，虽让人不得不直视自己的伤口，却又令人爱不释手。从一开始的 〈In Love With A View〉到每首曲子，琮琮般地钢琴声、空心钢弦滑音吉他、斑鸠琴与小喇叭等乐器的简约配置下，Neil Halstead 如诗般词句与呢喃便悄悄地带领每位听者，重新凝视自己内心未被开启的每一道窗口。而清淡雅致的乡村田园风味，更让Mojave 3的音乐就这麼轻易地攫获所有乐迷的心。但Mojave 3之所以是Mojave 3，最可贵的地方却在於，尽管Halstead深知人性的脆弱，却亦知它该寻找的方向在哪，就如同最后的 〈Got My Sunshine〉一曲，Halstead以福音歌曲合音传达出他对这世间仍是抱著希望与期待。一位朋友说得好：「若不是Mojave 3，或许我再也不听这几年的九○年代新音乐了！」而我相信这是肺腑之言。

       发现mojave3，是前两天在一家唱片店，挑了些CD正要离开，忽然听到店里正在放着一首舒缓如晨雾中丝绒的的歌，低沉的男声静静的划过，像冷漠冬天中的一股暖流。

     于是就买到了这张mojave3的excuse for travellers。回来迫不及待的塞进唱机。由于最近太多充数之作，这几年我已很少关注4AD这个厂牌，而mojave3着实是个意外。低缓的民谣风格在众多4AD式的吉他噪音里，如洗净铅华般的美丽。

      这些年的唱片，买了听、听了买，但真正让我如此投入的却少只有少。生命中需要不断的激情，也需要融化心灵坚冰的暖流，需要mojave3这样音乐，穿过林间抚摸我们淡漠久已的情感。

 
在网上查一查majave3的资料，又几段摘抄如下： 
 

     “其实这也是一只很低调的乐队，保持了4AD以往乐队的风格，走神秘路线。第一次听到的时候就放下了手上的事情，能让人如此投入的音乐越来越少了，也许是心的感动越来越麻木了吧，但是毕竟还是找到了一些难忘的经历，耳朵在纷繁的世界中越来越遮掩着自己的本吧，其实就象自己的心一样，渐渐地把自己孤立于外界之中，然后看着路人狂发感叹，“这帮傻X，干嘛呢”。说完了有点儿后悔，因为他们在用同样的心理语言对你说着同样的话。孤立未必是件坏事儿，更多地独立地感触自己的时间，同样未必是件坏事儿。偶尔也让音乐暖暖自己的心吧。”

“建议：此专辑最适合以下环境聆听：
1.灯光微亮的深夜
2.拥挤的人群背后
3.安静行驶的列车上
4.黄昏无人的树林或者水岸”



哀伤与浪漫 ——记4AD公司的MOJAVE3

      Mojave 3的音乐给人的第一印象有如躲藏在雾气中歌唱的天使一般，甜美的歌声充满了不食人间烟火的飘渺，这是精灵才能描绘出的声音图像，在每一个音符间释放情意的梦幻乐音。

     来自于英伦的新迷幻风潮下的他们在这张专辑里用相当简单的乐器配置制造出一种慵懒而迷蒙的美感，有着民谣传奇歌手Nick Drake的优雅、Cowboy Junkise的飘渺柔情，另外还有Bob Dylan歌曲般的深情感人。女主唱Rachel如天使呼气般的唱腔，搭配上Neil游走于乡村和民谣之间充满了轻灵味道的吉他，使得《Ask Me Tomorrow》(明日问我)充满了一种深情的哀伤与浪漫，成为探索心灵深处秘境的最佳专辑。

      延续上次的风格继续介绍一只优秀的4AD公司下的乐队——Mojave 3，这可是一只正在成长的乐队，没有一点衰落的迹象。Slowdive是在1995年发行了专辑《Pygmalion》之后被唱片公司解约的，今天人们说这是一张非常优美和简约的作品，只是当时他们得到的是悲惨的销量。所幸的是他们音乐的方向已经清晰可见了。Neil Halstead开始在工作的间隙断断续续地写一些歌。几个星期之后Halstead和Slowdive的成员Rachel Goswell、Lan Mc Cutcheon用了3天时间录制了6首音乐小样，其中几首歌曲没有伴奏。他们的经济人带着这盘小样去找4AD的老板Vio Watts-Russell，在听了他们的小样之后，Watts为了能更多地听到他们三个人的音乐立刻为他们投资进行唱片的录制，其实我想在你听了他们的音乐之后也会了解Watts当时的心情，因为Mojave3的音乐风格和This Mortal Coil有着曲风上的相似，但要更加的温柔、轻盈。在This Mortal Coil解散了5年的时候，突然冒出了这么一个让自己心动的组合，我想Watts一定欣喜若狂。

      随后他们决定不再继续沿用“Slowdive”这个名字，为自己起了“Mojave”这个名字，然后在后面又加上了一个“3”，更突出了他们3个人的特点。Mojave 3使用很多传统乐器，如风琴、钢琴。他们从唯美的方向上发展了Slowdive的概念，但是不再以Slowdive的名义。象The Curve、My Bloody Valentine、Pale Saints之类的乐队都属于这个类型。他们都用很多吉他噪音，很迷幻。在签约4AD以后，先前的六首Demos外加上稍后录制的3首歌曲，他们在1996年出版了自己的第一张专辑“Ask Me Tomorrow”。寂静、神秘、幽暗、深沉的音乐风格和Mazzy Star、The Cowboy Junkies的音乐同出一辙，Mojave 3的演奏更象Galaxie 500被轻微修改了的样子。伴随着类似乡村音乐的特点，其实不仅仅是乡村音乐，也有点儿好象从Unplugged的Slowdive发出的低沉轻微的鼻音。乐队的神秘就象Dean Wareham，不过一切的变化一切的声音都体现了4AD的标志性声音。乐队组成几个月以后，包括4AD公司的Scheer、Lush、Mojave 3进行了被称做“The Shaving the Pavement Tour”的全美演出活动。

 
     1998年出版了“Out Of Tune”，Chapterhouse的吉它手Simon Rown也加入了乐队，还有键盘手Alan Forrester，他们全心地投入Mojave 3的创作中。这时Mojave 3已经赢得Bob Dylan、Nick Drake、Neil Young的喜爱了。他们已经成为90年代和21世纪早期最有影响力的乐队了，很快Mojave 3投入到第三张专辑的制作中去了，两年以后“Excuses For Travellers”（旅行者们的借口）专辑出版了，专辑延续了前两张专辑的类似流行的多元化音乐因素的风格。不断的进步似乎已经不是他们惟一的追求了，不停的外界赞扬的干扰似乎让他们已经厌烦了，他们以非常谦和的态度对外界宣称：“去掉包装和光环，我们只想安静地独自享受自己的音乐世界，为大家做出最好的专辑。”Neil Halstead再一次担当了创作人，继续用熟练的技术延续他象羽毛般柔软细腻的创作风格。“Excuses For Travellers”和另外两张专辑有些细微的差别，好比幽暗的班卓琴和时常出现的号角，Halstead的声音偶尔显得有点儿粗暴，但没有毁灭的元素，也许容易让人往DOOM方面联想，不过他的音乐依旧不会具有攻击性。值得注意的是Rachel Goswell制作的“Bringin` Me Home”，让Mark Van Hoen这个和Mojave 3合作关系密切的乐队也刮目相看了。很显然，她的声音已经变成了乐队的一件秘密武器。 

     其实这也是一只很低调的乐队，保持了4AD以往乐队的风格，走神秘路线。第一次听到的时候就放下了手上的事情，能让人如此投入的音乐越来越少了，也许是心的感动越来越麻木了吧，但是毕竟还是找到了一些难忘的经历，耳朵在纷繁的世界中越来越遮掩着自己的本吧，其实就象自己的心一样，渐渐地把自己孤立于外界之中，然后看着路人狂发感叹，“这帮傻X，干嘛呢”。说完了有点儿后悔，因为他们在用同样的心理语言对你说着同样的话。孤立未必是件坏事儿，更多地独立地感触自己的时间，同样未必是件坏事儿。偶尔也让音乐暖暖自己的心吧。

作品介绍:

Puzzles Like You

June 19th 2006
1. Truck Driving Man
2. Puzzles Like You
3. Breaking The Ice
4. Running With Your Eyes Closed
5. Most Days
6. Big Star Baby
7. Ghost Ship Waiting
8. Kill The Lights
9. You Said It Before
10. To Hold Your Tiny Toes
11. Just A Boy
12. The Mutineer

Spoon And Rafter

September 22nd 2003
1. Bluebird Of Happiness
2. Starlight No. 1
3. Writing To St Peter
4. Bill Oddity
5. Battle Of The Broken Hearts
6. Hard To Miss You
7. Tinkers Blues
8. She’s All Up Above
9. Too Many Mornings
10. Between The Bars

Excuses for travellers

May 15th 2000
1. In Love With A View
2. Trying To Reach You
3. My Life In Art
4. Return To Sender
5. When You’re Drifting
6. Any Day Will Be Fine
7. She Broke You So Softly
8. Prayer For The Paranoid [Acoustic]
9. Bringin’ Me Home
10. Got My Sunshine.

Out of Tune

October 5th 1998
1. Who Do You Love
2. Give What You Take
3. Some Kinda Angel
4. All Your Tears
5. Yer Feet
6. Caught Beneath Your Heel
7. Keep It All Hid
8. Baby’s Coming Home
9. To Whom Should I Write
Note: USA version includes bonus track “This Road I’m Travellin’

Ask me tomorrow

October 16th 1995
1. Lovesongs on the radio
2. Sarah
3. Tomorrow´s taken
4. Candle song 3
5. You´re beautiful
6. Where is the love?
7. After all
8. Pictures
9. Mercy

Bluebird Of Happiness

August 25th 2003
1. Bluebird Of Happiness (Minotaur Shock Mix)
2. Bluebird Of Happiness (Manitoba Mix)
3. Bluebird Of Happiness

Return to sender

September 25th, 2000
1. Return to sender
2. Yer feet (Live in portugal)
3. Girl from the north country (Dylan cover)

Any Day Will Be Fine

May 1st 2000
1. Any Day Will Be Fine
2. Crazy Koz (Cd-single only)
3. Always Right

In Love With A View 

April 3rd 2000
1. In Love With A View
2. Prayer For The Paranoid [Electric]

Some Kinda Angel

September 7th 1998
1. Some kinda angel
2. Go lady go
3. All I want

Who do you love

June 29th 1998
1. Who do you love
2. This road I´m travellin
3. Between us
4. Who do you love (Demo version)