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Although the quality of the songwriting here does not quite match what Stevens would achieve on his following releases, it is strong nonetheless, and goes a good length toward establishing his trademark sound. Of particular note is Stevens' voice: a rich, variable baritone that he exploits on MONA BONE JAKON to excellent effect. The results--warm, intimate, and immediately appealing--put Stevens in the running with the best singer-songwriters of the early '70s, and paved the way for his next release, the watershed TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN.
1970's MONA BONE JAKON was Cat Stevens's third album, yet it bore little relation to the pop-oriented sound of his 1967 releases. In the interim Stevens had become disillusioned with the pop scene, then became seriously ill and spent a year convalescing. When he returned with this album his sound had grown folksier and his songs more reflective and emotionally straightforward. Acoustic guitar and spare backing by bass, keys, and drums framed these new compositions that dealt with the trials of fame ("Pop Star"), personal hardship ("Trouble"), and faith ("I Think I See the Light").
Personnel: Cat Stevens (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Alun Davies (guitar); Peter Gabriel (flute); John Fell Ryan (bass instrument); Harvey Burns (percussion).
CMJ (7/24/00, p.24) - "...Classic folk-pop....gorgeously remastered...breathing new life into tunes...while remaining faithful to the albums' original majesty..." Cat Stevens Mona Bone Jakon Songs Mona Bone Jakon Music Review Purchase Mona Bone Jakon CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman CD (1970) Remastered
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In "Sitting," for example, the singer is dogged by thoughts of stagnation and mortality while a chiming, minstrel-esque keyboard riff plays in the background. The somber mood is heightened by ...
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Digitally remastered by Ted Jensen (December 1999, Sterling Sound, New York, New York).
Between 1970 and 1972, Cat Stevens recorded four albums in the same manner, using the same producer and many of the same musicians, painting the album covers, and assigning the records ponderous titles. Things changed with his next album, Foreigner. The recording itself had been produced by Stevens, and while a couple of Stevens' usual backup musicians had been retained, New York session musicians appeared, and second guitarist Alun Davies was gone. With him went the acoustic guitar interplay that had been the core of Stevens' sound, replaced by more elaborate keyboard-based arrangements complete ...
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All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology.
"How Do I Live" was nominated for 1998 Grammy for Song Of The Year and won the Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. "In Another's Eyes" won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals and was nominated for Best Country Song.
SONGBOOK combines 10 hits from the first part of Yearwood's career (through 1995's THINKIN' ABOUT YOU) with a soundtrack cut ("How Do I Live," from "Con Air") and a new duet with Garth Brooks ("In Another's Eyes"). The album makes a case for Yearwood as one of the finest country singers of the '90s. Yearwood's painfully real portraits of lovers on the ropes are rigorously absent of the standard Nashville tricks. There are no cookie-cutter melodies, no needless swings into honky-tonk nostalgia, no superfluous steel guitars, no emotional resolutions achieved in two perfect verses--just stuff that's real.
In "Like We Never Had A Broken Heart" (another duet with Brooks, from her debut album), she tries to patch up a failing affair with a good night of sex, advising her partner, "Pretend I'm someone that you love." The heroine of "XXX's and OOO's" wakes up to this casually brutal world: "Phone rings/Baby cries/TV diet guru lies." Yearwood sings with a matter-of-fact emotion that acknowledges the ...
| | Magic Carpathians Project Ethnocore 2: Nytu CD (2001)
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Personnel: Wadada (sitar); Marek Miczyk (violin).
Ethnocore 2: Nytu is the latest installment in the ongoing series of recordings from Anna Nacher and Marek Stryczychnski of the Polish avant folk band Atman. Previous issues under the Magic Carpathians moniker have been explorations of the various musics of the Carpathian Mountains and the countries into which the mountain range extends. In some sense this is another chapter in that series, exploring vocal and instrumental techniques such as the technique of the nytu and mystical vocal techniques from the languages of ancient Slav rituals. These techniques have virtually disappeared from modern culture, except in remote regions of the territory where the old Carpathian culture is, at least in part, practiced. Nacher is a formidable vocalist, as much a student of various traditions as she is an exponent of them. To look deeply into a musical tradition that has all but disappeared, it appears that the Magic Carpathians sought to look musically from the outside in. They've enlisted the aid of Marek Miczyk from the Suns of Arqva and Beata Kozak and Slawka Walczewska of the Woman's Foundation in Krakow for elemental, atmospheric, and textural support. The music is, if anything, folk music, because it is formed entirely of folk traditions from areas in the Carpathian region and eastward, but embodies none of them in its entirety. There are many ways to bring out this music, trance-like and droning as it is; one of them is with choirs and layers of voices. Another ...
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| | Goertzen, Chris & The Hazy Pilgrims Devil's Rawking Chair CD (2008)
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Although he writes with an acoustic guitar and the desire to paint a good story, Chris Goertzen calls on the Hazy Pilgrims to fill out his creations with the dynamics of a full electrified band. For over two years this collaboration has polished its live performances, and have now released their highly anticipated debut recording. The album, entitled Devil's Rawking Chair, successfully captures the energy and intensity of the live shows, and delivers a truly unique expression of talented songwriting and musicianship.Showcasing lyrical strength and a voice Darryl Sterdan of the Winnipeg Sun describes ...
| | Amy Obenski From The Deep CD (2008)
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The first 15 copies sold will be autographed by Amy Obenski! There are still some in stock."Amy Obenski is sure to break through the singer/songwriter ranks and make a lasting impression with her new album, From the Deep. In its jazz-steeped compositions, which move from haunting to soothing in one intuitive swoop and feature grand piano, guitar, cello, viola, bass, drums, mandolin and accordion, we find a talented artist reaching her creative peak.Soaking ...
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