本·库珀
本·库珀 | |
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男歌手 | |
出生 | [1] | 1982年2月24日
职业 | 创作型歌手 |
音乐类型 | 原音乐 独立民谣 器乐 |
演奏乐器 | 吉他,手风琴,班卓琴,鼓,钢琴 |
网站 | www |
本杰明·P·库珀[3](Benjamin P. Cooper,1982年2月24日—)是一位歌手、词曲作家、乐器演奏家及画家,来自于美国佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔。[4][5]他目前以“Radical Face”为艺名发行音乐,其代表作是2007年收录在首张同名专辑中的单曲《Welcome Home》。库珀曾参与多个音乐项目:与Alex Kane共同组建乐队Electric President[6]、与Rick Colado合作的The Clone Project[7],以及Unkle Stiltskin乐队[8]。
早期生活
[编辑]本·库珀出生于佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔,成长在一个有九个兄弟姐妹的家庭。他早年便因对绘画的热爱而表现出独特的创作天赋,中学时期他便已经开始与朋友制作短片并接触音乐创作。
14岁时,库珀向父母公开了自己的同性恋身份,随后被继父逐出家门。[4]谈及这段经历时,他表示“这段经历教会了我如何自立……虽然不推荐这种方式,但它确实让我受益匪浅。特别是作为自由音乐人,许多事情我都能从容应对”[9]。库珀成年后,发现他的继父性侵了他的侄女。最终本收养了他的侄女,并在其继父的审判中充当证人。[10]在开始他的《The Family Tree》三部曲计划时,他本来打算讲一个虚构的故事,而由于其创作时生活中发生的事情,在他第三张系列专辑《The Leaves》中,则直接写了他的家人。[11]
在19岁时,库珀决定成为一名作家,并写了两本书。然而,在电脑死机之前,他没有及时备份文件,于是他将电脑搬到屋外用锤子砸毁。就是在这一系列事件发生后,库珀开始自己创作音乐,通过在当地演出意外地开启了他的职业生涯,尽管他最初的本意并非如此。[12]据报道,库珀早期作品大多录制于自家屋外的工具棚内。[13]
职业生涯
[编辑]早期生涯与Unkle Stiltskin(2000–2003)
[编辑]2002年,库珀与科里·卢普(Corey Loop)及后来的贝斯手/吉他手亚历克斯·凯恩(Alex Kane)组建了Unkle Stiltskin乐队。他们共同录制了歌曲,但从未进行过现场演出,也没有发行过实体唱片[8]。
Electric President(2003-2010)
[编辑](主条目:英语维基百科的Electric President)
库珀于2000年结识亚历克斯·凯恩(Alex Kane),二人后来组建了名为Radical Face vs Phalex Sledgehammer的乐队,后更名为Electric President[14][15],并被要求在该乐队中代替主唱的位置。库珀认为这是其职业生涯的首次专业突破,但在与唱片公司合作发行音乐时遭遇阻力。2010年,在与Electric President合作发行了第三张专辑《The Violent Blue》后,凯恩和库珀便开始专注于其他项目。与此同时,库珀以Radical Face为名开启了《Family Tree》专辑的创作。
Radical Face(2003年至今)
[编辑](主条目:英语维基百科的Radical Face)
《Ghost》(2007)
(主条目:英语维基百科的Ghost)
《Ghost》是Radical Face于2007年3月发行的首张正式录音室专辑。单曲《Welcome Home》因被尼康相机广告采用而广为人知[16],此后多次出现在商业广告、电影及电视剧中[17]。
《The Family Tree》三部曲(2011–2016)
2011年,库珀启动名为"The Family Tree"的计划,通过三部曲专辑讲述一个虚构家族的跨代际故事。该系列多首曲目被影视作品收录[18]。尽管创作初期库伯将其设定为虚构叙事,但三部曲的最后一个专辑融入了库珀的真实经历,《Everything Costs》与《Bad Blood》两首歌曲以第一视角呈现其个人感悟[4]。
《Missing Film》(2018)
在为某未完成项目创作音乐后,库珀将这批作品以器乐专辑形式发布,命名为《Missing Film》,供独立电影人免费使用[19][20]。
音乐项目与贡献
[编辑]未发行作品
[编辑]库珀以Radical Face的名义创作的首个音乐项目《The Junkyard Chandelier》从未正式发行。该专辑及其职业生涯中多部未公开的作品(包括专辑《Patients》),仅能通过在线渠道下载[21]。
影视引用
[编辑]美国罪案惊悚剧《黑名单》多次采用Radical Face的歌曲,包括《Welcome Home》《Baptisms》《Always Gold》《The Road to Nowhere》《Summer Skeletons》和《Letters Home》。2021年,剧集制作人乔恩·博肯坎普(Jon Bokenkamp)与约翰·比斯尔(John Bissell)邀请库珀为第八季大结局创作主题曲。库珀与音乐人乔什·李(Josh Lee)合作完成的单曲《One Last Dream》以Radical Face名义发布,并于该集播出当日(2021年6月23日)同步上线[22]。
其歌曲《We're On Our Way》曾被用于 2012 年的电影《壁花少年》的预告片中。
Radical Face所演唱的歌曲《Glory》和《All is Well (Goodbye, Goodbye)》曾出现在 2016 年电影《蜜月好友》中。
音乐作品
[编辑]Radical Face时期
[编辑]录音室专辑
- The Junkyard Chandelier (2003) (未发行)
- Ghost (2007)
- The Family Tree: The Roots (2011)
- The Family Tree: The Branches (2013)
- The Family Tree: The Leaves (2016)
- Missing Film (2018)
- Ghost (Anniversary Edition) (2019)
- A Light in the Woods (2023) (six-volume collection)
- B-Sides and Rarities 2002-2011 (2024)
- Mixtape (2024)
合集
- The Bastards (2016)
EP
- Touch the Sky (2010)
- Always Gold (2012)
- SunnMoonnEclippse (2017)
- Covers, Vol 1: Lady Covers (2018)
- Therapy (2019)
- Therapy (Alternate Reality Version) (2019)
- Hidden Hollow, Vol. One (2021)
单曲
- 《Welcome Home》 (2011)
- 《Reveries》 (2020)
- 《Family》 (2021)
- 《Dreamless Sleep》 (2021)
- 《One Last Dream》 (2021)
Electric President时期
[编辑]录音室专辑
- S/T (2006)
- Sleep Well (2006)
- The Violent Blue (2010)
EP
- You Have the Right to Remain Awesome (2004)
The Clone Project时期
[编辑]- Clone (2014)
参考资料
[编辑]- ^ Happy Birthday Ben! | Radical Face Forum. Oldradicalface.com. [June 29, 2014]. (原始内容存档于December 4, 2013).
- ^ 本·库珀正在竞选“Electric President”音乐组合的成员。, (原始内容存档于October 22, 2009)
- ^ A LITTLE HELL. ASCAP. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. [November 12, 2023]. (原始内容存档于2017-02-06).
- ^ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "When The Page Becomes A Mirror: A Chat With Radical Face (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)".
- ^ Radical Face - The Missing Road. Radical Face - The Missing Road. [2023-10-19]. (原始内容存档于2025-02-25) (英语).
- ^ Ben Cooper - Relationships - MusicBrainz. musicbrainz.org. [2023-10-19].
- ^ Cooper, B., Colado, R. (September 23, 2014). The Clone Project. Retrieved from http://projectclone.com/ (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- ^ 8.0 8.1 Cooper, Ben. Unkle Stiltskin. oldradicalface.com. [2023-10-20]. (原始内容存档于2025-02-25).
- ^ Radical Face Premieres "The Ship in Port" Video. Bandcamp Daily. July 19, 2016 [2023-08-01]. (原始内容存档于2019-04-19).
- ^ Radical Face Premieres "The Ship in Port" Video. Bandcamp Daily. July 19, 2016 [2023-08-01]. (原始内容存档于2019-04-19).
- ^ When the Page Becomes a Mirror: A Chat with Radical Face. NPR. (原始内容存档于2017-10-24).
- ^ Secret Sessions.
- ^ Lovejoy, Heather. Electric President of Jacksonville Beach has a new album, 'The Violent Blue'. The Florida Times-Union. [2023-10-20]. (原始内容存档于2023-10-08) (美国英语).
- ^ Radical Face vs. Phalex Sledgehammer biography. Last.fm. [2023-10-19]. (原始内容存档于2025-02-25) (英语).
- ^ Electric President: Electric President. Pitchfork. [2023-10-20] (美国英语).
- ^ Nikon Cameras – I Am. TV Ad Music. March 12, 2010 [June 29, 2014]. (原始内容存档于2023-08-01).
- ^ BEN COOPER / RADICAL FACE - Music Publishing - Concord. concord.com. [2023-10-19]. (原始内容存档于2025-04-21) (美国英语).
- ^ Radical Face | Music Department, Composer, Soundtrack. IMDb. [2023-10-19]. (原始内容存档于2024-12-24) (美国英语).
- ^ j.a.heiser. Album Review: Radical Face – Missing Film. The Indy Review. 2018-11-21 [2023-10-19] (英语).
- ^ @RadicalFace (November 16, 2018). "Today I am releasing a free album called “Missing Film’, a selection of instrumental music I've written. I thought I would make these tracks available to film makers and content creators to use, royalty-free, in any of their personal work. Download Free: (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)" (Tweet)
- ^ Nocodeyv. The Junkyard Chandelier & Patients. r/radicalface. 2021-02-07 [2023-10-19]. (原始内容存档于2025-01-27).
- ^ Radical Face - One Last Dream, June 24, 2021 [2023-10-19], (原始内容存档于2024-11-26) (英语). "Last Friday I got contacted out of the blue by the creator of the show "The Blacklist." There was a very important final scene in the season finale, and there was suddenly an issue with the music that was slated to go along with it. I was asked if I could come up with something for the scene over the weekend, as it was due to air on Wednesday. But it was a long cue -- about 5 minutes. We had never spoken before that moment, but they've featured me on the show multiple times and it's been a really big reason that people have heard of me at all. So of course I was happy to at least try. I got a cut of the scene, some notes about the tone and the mood, and then the work started. Writing to cues is a bit different than writing songs, because the tempo and mood have to fit something that already exists. It's about amplifying a mood instead of generating it from scratch. So just sorting the structure can take a lot of time. I could also tell right from the start that I'd need strings on this, so I asked Josh, my partner, to help me come up with some cello parts. He's really great at playing emotively, so we got all that sorted in a couple hours. The rest was a blur. But it's fun to just move sometimes and go entirely with gut responses. There wasn't time to second guess anything. And luckily it was all moods and tones that are well within my wheelhouse. To jump to the end, the piece worked out well and was accepted. And since it will have already aired before I put out my next newsletter, I am uploading it early."