I've heard that they are superb live. Thanks for link, Chris. In fact the nearest venue to me happens to fall on my birthday weekend so...no excuse for me not to go!! <:-P
I listen to this album a lot. But this morning I'm totally struck by its beauty and odd perfection. Throughout Cohen's voice is ridiculously fronted. That, with the lyrics (poems) which are as wise, honest, and full of allusion as always, makes it feel very intimate and personal. But behind that there is this consummate, subtle and magical arrangement which, with perfect timing flutters forward with humour, nostalgia, irony, sadness, regret, acceptance.... It feels like a whole world. A whole life. It's definitely, for me at least, eyes-shut music. Or at least teary-blurry-vision-music, as the case is this morning.
Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Paul Bley, Bruce Ditmas - (either) Jaco or Pastorius Metheny Ditmas Bley (depending if you have the latest reissue or the original on Artists House).
Apparently the first album Jaco appeared on (it was really a Paul Bley session, and I think that's him on the cover, above), and very early on in Metheny's career, too.
It's rapidly becoming obvious it's Tim Berne week, so sod it, her's some more!
Please note the collection of usual suspects, plus Craig Taborn on keyboards (actually a usual suspect, who hadn't yet come up in this series of posts).
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Wait until you hear them live, they're piggin' brill! I've seen them twice and they're in the UK for the next 2 weeks.
Go and enjoy...
http://www.seetickets.com/tour/guadalupe-plata
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It started here...
The former yes. Latter no. Always grateful for pointers. Will get my running shoes on now....
Read a great comment about him earlier: Tom Waits attracts Truth like a corpse attracts flies.
No soft toys were hurt in the making of this post
No soft toys were hurt in the making of this post
I like the Replacements track. There's a dollop of early Cure in there (was it called A Forest?), I think.
Another favourite by them (almost a slowed down version of A Forest?! )
They don't write 'em like that anymore!