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 daverd rated 10 months ago - You won't find much music here, bt this is worth the a listen
"Saturday Nights" is a beautiful love song by Blue Nile coupled with the stark simplicity of Edward Hoppers art. together they tell a wonderful story.
"American realist painter Edward H...
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- daverd rated 10 months ago
- You won't find much music here, bt this is worth the a listen
"Saturday Nights" is a beautiful love song by Blue Nile coupled with the stark simplicity of Edward Hoppers art. together they tell a wonderful story.
"American realist painter Edward Hopper transformed mundane scenes of the city and its inhabitants into haunting visions of the existential isolation of modern life. "Eleven A.M." introduced the themes of personal anonymity and detachment that would recur in many of Hopper's later paintings. Such images may be regarded as expressions of loneliness, but Hopper welcomed solitude and intended his figures to embody complex emotional symbolism. The anonymous figure depicted in "Eleven A.M.," naked except for her shoes, is seated in an urban interior. The implied intimacy of her nude body is deliberately contrasted with the impersonal geometry of the buildings glimpsed in the background. The woman appears to stare out the window, her face hidden behind long hair. The morning light, which dances on the windowsill but does not permeate the room, is the focus of her gaze. She seems filled with an expectant longing that humanizes the apparent impersonality of her urban world."
The Blue Nile are (were) mostly a two-men band (P. Buchanan & R. Bell) from Glasgow which, in the mid-Eighties, produced two stunningly good and awesomely recorded discs: "A walk on the rooftops", their debut album, and this "Hats". Both records were issued and mastered by Linn Records UK, not a surprise, considering the band came from Glasgow :-)
Thanks Dreamstream
- Susiep2660 rated 12 months ago
- Beautiful and perfect for introspection. Very enjoyable.
- caferives rated 13 months ago
- Scotlands best kept secret, 'The Blue Nile' play 'Saturday Night'from the album 'Hats' set too the pictures of Edward Hopper, they work particularly well together....good stuff !!
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