Name: Open Mind - The Best of Blackfield
Brand: Blackfield

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KSCOPE767

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-16

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802644876726

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

kscope980

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Double Black Vinyl with Etched D-Side housed in Gatefold Sleeve.

2018-09-28

0802644898018

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Artist

Blackfield

Genre GB

Prog Rock

Label GB

Kscope

The best of the peerless collaboration between Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen. Features 15 essential tracks, including Blackfield, Once, Family Man and Pain. Blackfield is the collaboration between Israeli songwriter and musician Aviv Geffen, and British musician and producer Steven Wilson. The collaboration, extending from their self-titled debut in 2004 to their superb return with album V produced with Alan Parsons in 2017, has proven to be a prolific partnership for creating striking and affecting music. This collection, curated by Wilson and Geffen, selects the best works from an impressively rich Blackfield catalogue with each of the five records combining both sweet and tart elements. It's an uncommonly potent mixture. Perhaps the debut album's Lasse Hoile cover art - a bottled elixir lurking in the gloomy shadows of an apothecary - signifies that Blackfield is a dark medicine to be administered through the listener's ear. There's no recipe on the aged and frayed label of the bottle. Yet some lyrical ingredients can be discerned within the mix: Take a dash of childhood memory, sprinkle in some heartbreak, pour in a drop of blood from an open vein, add a pinch of angry conscience (carefully weighed), puree the dew of a kiss, and then garnish with the bitter tears of adult disillusionment. Stir carefully and name it after the very first Blackfield collaboration: Open Mind.

Open Mind - The Best of Blackfield

Music GB