I'd like to share two versions of the British traditional ballad "must I go bound"
the first one by Fabrizio De André and the second one by buffy Buffy Sainte-Marie;
I really like them:
I still think "Wintermusik" is better, but this is another excellent album. Another group of wonderful piano-driven tracks. Here the sound is more rich and full of electronic effects, but it still keeps minimal and peaceful. Driving notes often simulate other instruments, f.e. xylophone. Extremely minimal parts more rich parts alternate each other.
The piece I prefered is the last one, "More". In opposition to "Less", that was a track with only a few notes and very peaceful, this one starts with a fast and restless set of notes. This set suddenly changes its sound, gradually building a progression and increasing volume. In the middle of the track these fast notes stop, leaving place for some lonely and highly accented ones. Then, near the end, comes an electronic carpet of sounds: a very evocative atmosphere, not lacking of effects simulating animals. A very deep and evocative track.
But the whole album is wonderful, highly recommended to anyone who wants some piano-driven music.
Here is a live version of the song, but it's a bit different. There is a long electronic intro, absent in the studio version (it fits with the studio version at about 5:10), and then there is only the first part of the song, extended in time. The second and third part are absent here. Anyway it's always awesome to see him playing:
AH I remember my prof of Literature singing this song! She was not the kind of person that you expect such a thing from, so that was lovely and embarassing at the same time, ahah.
They are both nice versions anyway, but expecially De André. He never really meant anything special to me, but I recognize his value as a songwriter. Such a gem for Italy. 😄
I still think "Wintermusik" is better, but this is another excellent album. Another group of wonderful piano-driven tracks. Here the sound is more rich and full of electronic effects, but it still keeps minimal and peaceful. Driving notes often simulate other instruments, f.e. xylophone. Extremely minimal parts more rich parts alternate each other.
The piece I prefered is the last one, "More". In opposition to "Less", that was a track with only a few notes and very peaceful, this one starts with a fast and restless set of notes. This set suddenly changes its sound, gradually building a progression and increasing volume. In the middle of the track these fast notes stop, leaving place for some lonely and highly accented ones. Then, near the end, comes an electronic carpet of sounds: a very evocative atmosphere, not lacking of effects simulating animals. A very deep and evocative track.
But the whole album is wonderful, highly recommended to anyone who wants some piano-driven music.
Here is a live version of the song, but it's a bit different. There is a long electronic intro, absent in the studio version (it fits with the studio version at about 5:10), and then there is only the first part of the song, extended in time. The second and third part are absent here. Anyway it's always awesome to see him playing:
as u say "a kind of live" patchwork; I really appreciate it: soft, sweet and melancholic but happy in the same time.
I'm seriously thinking to go through all his discography too.
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Sorry for my absence. I don't know if anyone other than Pa will read this, but anyway...
I'd like to tell you something about Sycamore Age.
They're italian but they sing in English. Well, they don't even sing a lot, because their music is pretty much instrumental. Their style is very personal and particular. It's a mix of prog rock, electronic, noise, folk, psychedelia, metal, kraut rock, baroque pop... It's very hard to classify them under a single genre. Influences are from Radiohead (expecially "In Rainbows" and Thom Yorke's solo works), Jeff Buckley (for the voice), Peter Hammil, but also old bands like Van der Graaf Generator and Amon Duul, and more and more.
They released only an album by now, "Sycamore Age". This album brings you into another world, a magic and colourful world. The various influences are all put togeter in wonderful musical themes and complex structures, but without wasting time: you'll be surprised by the times of the songs being pretty short. Every track tells you a story, and, like in a story, the characters enter the scene one next to each other. The notes create carpets full of mysterious angles. They paint images in your head chord after chord, shifting from a kind of sound to another with exceptional class. The atmosphere is at times alienating, at times bright and magic, at times scary.
This album is for free spirits.
9/10
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