Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco - Revelling/Reckoning Digital (25th Anniversary Edition)
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Ani DiFranco has never shied away from walking multiple paths. That plurality has never been more apparent than on her critically acclaimed sprawling 2001 double album, Revelling/Reckoning.
Look in one direction and the DIY indie-folk feminist hero sings urgently from the heart with instantly relatable stories of heartbreak, romance, and self-actualization. Look another way and the personal becomes political, with Ani tackling prescient issues of racism, misogyny, gender violence, queer culture, and women’s health. Sometimes she acts as the lone troubadour. Other times, she is surrounded by close musical collaborators. Together they traverse into a world of genres, from indie folk to funk, jazz, spoken word, soul, and more.
In 2001, Ani tied these seemingly disparate threads together on the massive double album, Revelling/Reckoning, set to be reissued for its 25th anniversary on Ani’s own Righteous Babe Records. As Ani honors the anniversary of her 11th album, the Revelling/Reckoning reissue expands upon the original release with three vinyl albums and a newly remastered digital edition with three bonus tracks. We get the skittering folk-jazz entry "Ribcage," a jangling alternative version of live favorite “Garden Of Simple,” as well as an alt version of the mournful “Old Old Song.”
An unfiltered burst of poetic creativity, Revelling/Reckoning at times sees Ani flying solo, pouring her observations about love, life, social issues, family politics, and everything in between into acoustic coffeehouse folk classics such as “Garden of Simple” and the somber meditation “Grey.”
Revelling (featuring the folk-funk jam “O.K.” and the jazzy “What How When Where (Why Who)”) finds the singer joining hands with her live touring band: Julie Wolf on keyboards, Jason Mercer on bass, Daren Hahn on drums, Hans Teuber on alto sax, and Shane Endsley on trumpet. Also, look out for guest appearances by saxophonist Maceo Parker on “What How When Where [Why Who],” trumpeter Jon Hassell on “Revelling,” and pedal steel player Lloyd Maines on “Sick of Me.” On its companion album Reckoning, DiFranco takes a largely solo approach, performing much of the vocals and instrumentation herself.
Whether Ani stays intimately minimal or jams out with her live band, Revelling/Reckoning is never afraid to weave in certain experimental touches. "Beautiful Night" is a lightly dizzying jazz instrumental; the looping and atmospheric “Tamburitza Lingua” utilizes spoken word to tell a story of urban survival; “Kazoointoit” layers voicemail audio and police radio chatter samples with horns and spoken word poetry to create a riveting yet ominous city soundscape. The title track on Reckoning blends Ani’s trademark acoustic style with softly blooming horns and clarinets to create a six-minute contemplation on love, life, and relationships.
Revelling/Reckoning's relevancy only continues to grow in the two and a half decades since its release, with Ani doing what she does best: giving us language for the issues we still struggle to address.
Tracklist:
1. Ain’t That the Way
2. O.K.
3. Garden of Simple
4. Tamboritza Lingua
5. Marrow
6. Heartbreak Even
7. Harvest
8. Kazoointoit
9. Whatall Is Nice
10. What How When Where (Why Who)
11. Fierce Flawless
12. Rock Paper Scissors
13. Beautiful Night
14. Your Next Bold Move
15. This Box Contains…
16. Reckoning
17. So What
18. Prison Prism
19. Imagine That
20. Memphis
21. Grey
22. Subdivision
23. Old Old Song
24. Sick of Me
25. Don’t Nobody Know
26. School Night
27. That Was My Love
28. Revelling
29. In Here
30. Ribcage (Bonus Track)
31. Garden of Simple (Bonus Track Alternate Version)
32. Old Old Song (Bonus Track Alternate Version)
