UPDATE FEB 2011

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DEAR FRIENDS, AFTER RECEIVING FIVE NOTIFICATIONS FROM DMCA, I HAVE DECIDED TO CLOSE MY BLOGS, SO ALL THIS SHARING-LINK ACTIVITY IS FINISHED. YOU CAN READ THE COMPLETE TEXT I POSTED ON MY PILOT BLOG - - > HERE

FOR THE MANY MANY PEOPLE WHO KEEP ASKING FOR RECORDS: I'M SORRY, I CAN'T FULFIL THEIR REQUESTS, IT ALL CAME TO A POINT THAT'S 'S TOO DANGEROUS FOR ME. I HAD TO REMOVE THE 97% OF THE ALBUMS I HAD POSTED ON THE SERVERS. The few exceptions are: the bootlegs and the few studio albums authorized directly by the copyright owners.

FOR ALL THE OTHERS, Cyrus (who wants to buy some of my vynil records), Maxoom, Caroalt, Jiro, Trolley Dolly, Phil (who wants my copies of the COB albums), Marnie (who wants my copy of the original "Ptooff"), XJ64, Antiamnbient, Arman, Nicolas, Rick, etc etc , please WRITE ME AGAIN WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, AND I WILL ANSWER YOU, OKAY?

Last: I RE-UPPED THE FOREST'S LIVE ALBUM FOR THREE PEOPLE WHO ASKED FOR IT, SO IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE.


VAN DER GRAAF FANS? - Click ==>> HERE

KISSES - YOUR COUNTESS VANESSA

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No pretention of completeness in mind, this blog sees the light with the idea of filling a good number of gaps here and there, where I notice that certain music that I particularly like is missing in other blogs. Therefore my intent is avoiding posting albums that are present elsewhere. Exceptions are: where I'm reported of dirty record scans, incomplete reissues often remixed and unfaithful to the originals, or when I can offer higher bitrate scans, or also when posting a title is necessary for the completeness of a thread or a discography.


Here you won't find links leading to downloads, whenever the "Link" is featured, the album is available, otherwise, it means "work in progress".... If you want an album, please write me a request in the comment section including your email address and where in the world you visit this blog from.

...and if you don't get an answer from me after a certain time, please write again - I'm sorry, but it's not rare that some emails get lost in outer space, unfortunately...

After seeing that certain people keep using some of my pictures (which are not first class, I admit it, but nevertheless were made originally by me) for their blogs, without mentioning me as the owner, I decided to apply a "watermark" on some of them.

Thanks for existing

Thanks for existing

25 March 2010

ALLAN TAYLOR - Old friends - new roads (Stockfish, 2007)

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...
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"



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Ella & Louis - Stompin' at the Savoy
(studio version,Verve, 1964) - no PW
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2 comments:

  1. 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? ;-)

    Hugs
    Manila xxxxxx

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  2. 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!
    Among 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

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