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tweber wrote:

cybot wrote:A nice way to remember Jack.....

Sad news indeed Dermot, thanks for the clip

You're welcome Shane....

Simply exquisite.  Listening tonight to Laura Nyro's timeless masterpiece, New York Tendaberry.  The great voice here is at its peak.  Perhaps the most techinically accomplished female vocalist in all of popular music, and rivalled only by the great Tim Buckley, the octave range that she could span was quite staggering.  Rickie Lee Jones once remarked that when Nyro sang she could make the planets roar.  The songs on New York Tendaberry retain a purity and an intensity that has rarely been equalled.  Every time I listen to these songs the experience becomes ever more enrapturing.  You really feel emotionally wiped with each passing listen.  And yet each successive listen draws you further under its spell.  Leonard Cohen once elegantly expressed the totality of a life's experience as being a thousand kisses deep and I think this is analogous to listening to the great albums over the course of a lifetime.  When I listen to Astral Weeks, Starsailor, Heart Food, American Gothic or New York Tendaberry (to take just five examples), I get the distinct impression that this is music that truly is a thousand listens deep.  So much is expressed here that encompasses so much of life's experiences that it is impossible to comprehend it in a single listen.  To paraphrase Laura Nyro, this music becomes like a blue note inside the listener that deepens and reverberates with repeated and sustained listening and evolves in the listener's mind over the course of a lifetime.  A thousand listens in, you really start wading in the depths of the music and begin to appreciate the depth of inspiration of these great artists.  Laura Nyro wrote nothing finer than the title track to New York Tendaberry and the indelible impression that it makes on the listener is akin to experiencing masterpieces like Madame George, Song to the Sailor, Montana Song or The Donor.  Timeless music that will outlast us all.

mcq wrote:

Simply exquisite.  Listening tonight to Laura Nyro's timeless masterpiece, New York Tendaberry.  The great voice here is at its peak.  Perhaps the most techinically accomplished female vocalist in all of popular music, and rivalled only by the great Tim Buckley, the octave range that she could span was quite staggering.  Rickie Lee Jones once remarked that when Nyro sang she could make the planets roar.  The songs on New York Tendaberry retain a purity and an intensity that has rarely been equalled.  Every time I listen to these songs the experience becomes ever more enrapturing.  You really feel emotionally wiped with each passing listen.  And yet each successive listen draws you further under its spell.  Leonard Cohen once elegantly expressed the totality of a life's experience as being a thousand kisses deep and I think this is analogous to listening to the great albums over the course of a lifetime.  When I listen to Astral Weeks, Starsailor, Heart Food, American Gothic or New York Tendaberry (to take just five examples), I get the distinct impression that this is music that truly is a thousand listens deep.  So much is expressed here that encompasses so much of life's experiences that it is impossible to comprehend it in a single listen.  To paraphrase Laura Nyro, this music becomes like a blue note inside the listener that deepens and reverberates with repeated and sustained listening and evolves in the listener's mind over the course of a lifetime.  A thousand listens in, you really start wading in the depths of the music and begin to appreciate the depth of inspiration of these great artists.  Laura Nyro wrote nothing finer than the title track to New York Tendaberry and the indelible impression that it makes on the listener is akin to experiencing masterpieces like Madame George, Song to the Sailor, Montana Song or The Donor.  Timeless music that will outlast us all.

Even though she is no longer with us her siren songs sing to the very depths of our soul and embed us in a thousand galaxies of wonder and enchantment to such an extent that her own immortality is ensured for countless generations to come. Not for the first time Paul, thanks for sharing.....

A bit of Allan Holdsworth over lunch - fantastic - sounds really good.

cybot wrote:

mcq wrote:

Simply exquisite ...

Even though she is no longer with us her siren songs sing to the very depths of our soul and embed us in a thousand galaxies of wonder and enchantment to such an extent that her own immortality is ensured for countless generations to come. Not for the first time Paul, thanks for sharing.....

Amen to that, Dermot.  I just hope that her music remains permanently available and is never deleted, unlike the ongoing shabby treatment of David Ackles' back catalogue. 

Weather still continues bad so really need some comfort music - nothing like some Focus.

Trawling through the oldies (but goodies) now.

markof wrote:

Weather still continues bad so really need some comfort music - nothing like some Focus.

....memories!!

markof wrote:

Weather still continues bad so really need some comfort music - nothing like some Focus.

First LP I ever bought. Happy memories!!!

JAW wrote:

markof wrote:

Weather still continues bad so really need some comfort music - nothing like some Focus.

First LP I ever bought. Happy memories!!!

I have Pat Agnew to thank for introducing me to Focus and Caravan.
Oatlands College, 5th. year (1972, I think)
Mark.