Allan Taylor writes:
"I'm still not ready to record a CD of new songs – maybe this will happen next year – so for the meantime I've made a CD of old songs for those people who have waited so long. - I decided to record the whole CD with just voice and guitar or voice and piano (played by Lutz Möller), the idea being that it is in fact a short private concert for you."
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A deeply intimist album, essential arrangements, phosphor bronze strings, rays in the darkness, great inspiration, in many many cases these revisions sound much better than the originals, sporadic influences of Jack Hardy and Leonard Cohen in singing, something that marks a certain evolution...
"I'm still not ready to record a CD of new songs – maybe this will happen next year – so for the meantime I've made a CD of old songs for those people who have waited so long. - I decided to record the whole CD with just voice and guitar or voice and piano (played by Lutz Möller), the idea being that it is in fact a short private concert for you."
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A deeply intimist album, essential arrangements, phosphor bronze strings, rays in the darkness, great inspiration, in many many cases these revisions sound much better than the originals, sporadic influences of Jack Hardy and Leonard Cohen in singing, something that marks a certain evolution...
For all those (like me) who sincerely loved "Sometimes" and "The lady"
Less recommended for those who are into "The American album" and "The traveller"
Allan Taylor kept his promise of a new CD in 2009 with the beautiful "Leaving at dawn"
Allan Taylor kept his promise of a new CD in 2009 with the beautiful "Leaving at dawn"
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hehehe. I've just sent you an email criticizing Allan Taylor's songwriting abilities, and now you post one of his albums! However, I loved SOMETIMES and THE LADY, so I'll reserve judgement on this one until I've heard it. Now I can't be fairer than that, can i? ;-)
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Manila xxxxxx
Ahh dear Manila, if you knew how deep was my disappointment when I bumped into the American Album and the Traveller, and other stuff of him, after his first 2 great LPs!
ReplyDeleteAmong our collector entourage, in all those incredible and stellar Seventies, I was the only one at the time to have "Sometimes" and "The lady", and some of those guys who got tapes from me of those 2 LPs, held me responsible after they bought albums that were so obstensively inferior, as tho it was my fault!! Also the Cajun moon was a letdown for many of us, although is a not too bad LP. But since tens of years I couldn't help comparing the new LPs of AT with this first two masterpieces, so dear Manila, I understand perfectly what you mean.
Moreover, if I hadn't had the chance to have CD copies from friends of mine available, I wouldn't have bothered to get his recent works, and I must say it's been a re-discovery, coz AT has restructured some of his musical conceptions.
I insist that a part of it, however, owes a debt to Jack Hardy and Leonard Cohen, maybe even to a certain roughness of the early Dylan. So, considering how was the original AT of the early 70's, I often get the doubt, today, whether AT sings with his naturally produced "vocal machine", or rather adopting a kind of fake style that we might define.... "inspired" by the people I just mentioned...
To conclude, I would add that what is there to be read on his own blog, that he considers himself at the top of the songwriters, reminds me the last words of Louis Armstrong at the end of "Stompin' at the Savoy"....
Anyway, give it a try, the album is here for you! :-)
Kiss
The Countess