The Innocence Mission

藝人資料
樂團(tuán)名稱：The Innocence Mission純真使命樂團(tuán)
組隊(duì)國籍：美國
組建時間：1982
樂團(tuán)的中心成員是Karen Peris與Don Peris。他們是一對相識于天主教高中唱詩班的夫妻檔
主唱的女聲，由于是出自唱詩班，聲音的清澈不亞于森林中的一眼清泉。他們的東西只要你一聽到就會如此的沉溺。
風(fēng)格類型：
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock（成人另類流行/搖滾）
Folk-Rock（民謠搖滾）
Singer/Songwriter（演唱者/歌曲作者）
純真使團(tuán)（the Innocence Mission ）是一組來自美國賓夕法尼亞州蘭卡斯特由Don Peris（主音，吉他）和Karen Peris（主音，吉他，鋼琴）夫妻為核心的創(chuàng)作組合，他們的音樂營造出一種優(yōu)美動聽，拋開政治態(tài)度的全新校園流行民謠，有如Sarah McLachlan和10,000 Maniacs一般清新純凈，沁人心脾（Peris夫婦也確實(shí)在10,000 Maniacs主唱Natalie Merchant1998年專輯Ophelia中獻(xiàn)聲）。1989年發(fā)行了首張同名專輯，由貝司手Mike Bitts和鼓手Steve Brown擔(dān)綱創(chuàng)作了旋律部分；而在1991年隨之發(fā)行專輯Umbrella。成人另類廣播的出現(xiàn)，讓純真使團(tuán)隨著1995年專輯Glow的發(fā)行而一夜成名，專輯中的部分素材還出現(xiàn)在電影Empire原聲大碟和電視節(jié)目Party of Five中。樂隊(duì)在接下來的幾年較為沉寂，Peris夫婦主要在Merchant, John Hiatt和Joni Mitchell的個人專輯中做嘉賓客串表演，而在這一時期他們第一個孩子出生了。之后他們的精力主要用于第四張專輯，1999年發(fā)行的Birds of My Neighborhood，這張專輯之后，鼓手Brown離開，樂隊(duì)只剩三人。2000年，樂隊(duì)在由自創(chuàng)的Innocence唱片公司發(fā)行了一張限量版的宗教音樂專輯Christ is My Hope。2001年，樂隊(duì)移師what are唱片公司，發(fā)行專輯Small Planes，其中收錄了幾首Birds of My Neighborhood的后備曲目。2003年，由Badman唱片公司發(fā)行專輯《Befriended》。
2004年11月發(fā)行錄音室專輯《Now the Day Is Over》。
2007年3月發(fā)行錄音室專輯《We Walked in Song》。
2010年7月發(fā)行錄音室專輯《My Room in the Trees》。
2015年10月發(fā)行錄音室專輯《Hello I Feel the Same》。
History
Before being signed to a record label, the band originally played local clubs, events and even a prom at Lancaster Catholic High School (the alma mater of the band members) under the name Masquerade.Their self-titled debut album was released in 1989 on A&M Records and was produced by Larry Klein, then-husband of Joni Mitchell. Recorded in the couple's Los Angeles recording studio, the album spent 10 weeks on the Billboard charts, peaking at #167 in 1990,with the album's lead single "Black Sheep Wall" peaking at #22 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.Klein also produced their 1991 follow up, Umbrella.
Their third and final A&M album, Glow (1995), was produced by Dennis Herring, who had previously produced two records for Camper Van Beethoven. This album is a departure from Klein's heavier production style. Whereas the first two releases may have brought to mind The Sundays and 10,000 Maniacs with their moody keyboards and layered sound, Herring's lighter touch gave more emphasis to the group's guitar work and to Karen's vocals and lyrics. Glow contains songs that appear on the soundtracks of the films Empire Records and Dream for an Insomniac, as well as the television series Party of Five. The album's second track, "Bright As Yellow," peaked at #33 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks.After the band completed the recording of a follow-up album to Glow, A&M Records was bought by Universal Music Group. The group decided to mutually part ways with the label, shortly before it was merged with other companies to form Interscope-Geffen-A&M. The album recorded during this period remains unreleased.
In 1999, the band signed to a new label, Kneeling Elephant, a sub-label of RCA Records. Additionally, drummer Steve Brown left the band to pursue a career as a chef. With the exception of his sole contribution - drums and brushes on "Snow" - the subsequent album, Birds of My Neighborhood, is largely bereft of drums. Don Peris took up percussional duties on "Birdless" and the closing moments of his self-penned "Green Grass, Red Tree," but otherwise the group adapted to its new trio status by replacing Mike Bitt's electric bass with an upright bass and taking on a more acoustic, folk-based sound. The album was followed by the release of The Lakes of Canada EP - which contains their one and only remix thus far, a remix of "Snow" by Icelandic electronic group GusGus.
The 2000 release, Christ Is My Hope, featuring folk songs and hymns that had inspired them over the years, was independently distributed by their own label, LAMP, with all proceeds from sales of the record being donated to hunger relief charities. An exclusive one-album deal signed with independent label WhatAreRecords? saw Small Planes following a year later. The album, which consisted of unreleased recordings made between 1996–2001, contained one song (the title track) from the unreleased album recorded for A&M in 1996.
Their first album on Badman Records in the US and Agenda in Europe, Befriended, was released in 2003 and was followed a year later by a collection of lullabies, standards, traditional and classical songs called Now the Day Is Over. Recorded over two weeks in August 2004, the album contained one original song, as well as their well-known cover of Henry Mancini's "Moon River."Badman Records acquired license to re-master and re-issue the then-out-of-print Birds of My Neighborhood album in 2006. We Walked in Song was released in 2007.
On June 6, 2008, "Bright as Yellow" was played as the official NASA wake-up call for the crew of Space Shuttle mission STS-124 on flight day 7.
Street Map was released in December 2008 and was the second record to be distributed independently on their own LAMP label, while their ninth studio album, My Room in the Trees, was released on July 13, 2010. Their most recent studio album, Hello I Feel the Same, was released on October 17, 2015, and is their first release on Korda Records.
Karen Peris released her first solo album, Violet, on December 3, 2012. The ten song album was performed mainly on piano, and features six instrumental compositions. Don Peris appears as guitarist on two songs found on the release, while the couple's two children performed violin and viola on a further two songs.A version of the album containing two bonus tracks, "First Days in the City" and "Getting Here", were released in Japan through P-Vine Records on May 15, 2013.
Don Peris has recorded four solo albums, Ten Silver Slide Trombones in 2001, the mostly instrumental Go When the Morning Shineth in 2006, which features a vocal contribution from Karen Peris on "North Atlantic Sand," and an instrumental solo guitar Christmas album, Brighter Visions Beam Afar, which was released in 2007. His fourth studio album, The Old Century, was released on May 7, 2013.
Studio album Hello I Feel the Same was released in 2015.