Glen Hansard

Glen Hansard – All That Was East Is West Of Me Now (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:20 minutes | 844 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Singer-Songwriter
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Those who have followed Glen Hansard’s career since his Academy Award winning turn in the film Once will have witnessed one artistic arc: the journey of a Dublin busker who cut his teeth on the greats – Dylan, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen – and followed the path of the troubadour to great effect. But there is another thread running through Hansard’s musicianship; in his decades as lead singer of Irish stalwarts The Frames, rock and folk ambitions coexisted with moments of strangeness, intimacy, and stillness.

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Glen Hansard – All That Was East Is West Of Me Now (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:42:20 minutes | 838 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock, Alternatif et Indé
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Glen Hansard – This Wild Willing (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:04:16 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Folk
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After the intimate Between Two Shores in 2018, Glen Hansard pushes the folk-rock boat out a little further with This Wild Willing. The Irishman releases a delicate fourth French solo album, enriched by his residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. The words were written in the capital, and the music in Angers. The former Frames guitarist, who added another feather to his cap as an actor and singer-songwriter, brought about twenty musicians into the studio. Their improvisations birthed twelve refined folk songs in which plucked strings, whispered voices and the piano piercing openwork melodies, whose contemplative songwriting takes center stage.  – Charlotte Saintoin

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Glen Hansard – Rhythm And Repose (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:47 minutes | 857 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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Prolific singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has enjoyed an illustrious career that boasts credits with The Frames, The Swell Season and a starring role in the motion-picture film, Once, for which he won an Academy Award. Rhythm and Repose, an album over twenty years in the making, is Hansard’s debut as a soloist. The emotion-provoking work is led primarily by piano and acoustic guitar. Standout tracks include “Love Don’t Leave Me Waiting,” “Maybe Not Tonight” and “You Will Become.” The album also finds Hansard collaborating with music greats, Brad Albetta, Ray Rizzo, Nico Muhly, Rob Moose, David Mansfield, Javier Mas and half of Bruce Springsteen’s current horn section. Rhythm and Repose proves why Hansard is widely considered one of music’s greatest songwriters.

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Glen Hansard – Didn’t He Ramble (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:23 minutes | 790 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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The new album is his first in over three years and follows 2012’s solo debut Rhythm & Repose, which Billboardhailed as “Hansard at his most engaging,” while The Wall Street Journal furthered, “Hansard’s distinguishing trait as a songwriter is a heavy-handed earnestness.”

Didn’t He Ramble was produced by Thomas Bartlett (The National, Sufjan Stevens), a frequent collaborator of Hansard’s, and Grammy winner and former Frames band-mate David Odlum (Paloma Faith, Tinariwen). The album, which was recorded in New York, Dublin, Chicago and France, is Hansard’s most intimate and elegant record since his work in Once and features guest appearances by John Sheahan (Dubliners), Sam Beam (Iron and Wine) and Sam Amidon.

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Glen Hansard – Between Two Shores (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:50 minutes | 461 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Acoustic, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock
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For his third studio album, the former leader of The Frames broadens his field of action even more. With Between Two Shores, Glen Hansard is no longer just an icon of contemporary folk rock, but also an all-around musician and songwriter who is willing to venture down new avenues, no matter how surprising they may be. His 2018 edition slaloms between a rock that could almost pass for some Springsteen, an almost chamber choir soul and, of course, deeply moving folk rock. It’s not surprising then that the subtle and genial jazz drummer Brian Blade took part in this sophisticated record. But it’s in the most intimate sequences that Hansard proves to be the most astounding, such as when he blends his voice with a crepuscular trumpet on Wreckless Heart or when he makes his melody grow throughout Movin’ On. With restrained organ playing here, heavy brass instruments there (Roll On Slow, Lucky Man), and some dreamy piano parts (Time Will Be The Healer), Glen Hansard orchestrates every moment of his album with real skill. It’s impressive.

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