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Thanks for Crystal Silence, Papus. One of my favourite fusion albums. It still sounds fresh today.

Greta wrote: ↑December 20th, 2020, 2:29 am Thanks for Crystal Silence, Papus. One of my favourite fusion albums. It still sounds fresh today.

It's pretty impressive from start to finish.

I tend to pick some of this off the escalator, like mining some of my favorite Full Cycle and V releases. I get that sampling offends a lot of people, in this genre and medium however there's a lot of reverence for what's being borrowed and it shows in the handling. I'm also glad they do it to some degree because you can trace the sample sources in various places and find music you never would have had access to without that introduction.

Pattern-chaser wrote:Nice choice. "You want it darker" and "Thanks for the dance" are an amazing end to a long career of crafting poetic songs.

I think my favourite Cohen is the Stranger Song. I think there's a video somewhere of him crying while singing it.

Speaking of emotional renditions of songs, I think this one is incredibly powerful for the emotional expression in Jacques Brel's face and voice.

Count Lucanor wrote: ↑December 22nd, 2020, 8:38 pm

I like it, reminds me of a more acoustic version of this:

Papus79 wrote: ↑December 24th, 2020, 2:52 pm I like it, reminds me of a more acoustic version of this:

That one and this below are my favorites from Reich:

A guy I've had a lot of respect for for a long time, this is maybe four or five years before he started Ivy Lab with Stray and Halogenix. This album, 'A Wandering Journal', is really unique. Unfortunately it's one of those places where worthwhile creativity seemed to show up without a market (it's very progressive, more a listening experience than dancefloor) and occasionally when an artist tries something like this and it sort lands out in the void they have to just say they mapped it and moved onto different things. This is a vector I really hope gets explored more - ie. very organic, mystically-inclined, nighttime stuff that makes you think of phosphorescent landscapes in the tropics. It's very similar to a sound I was experimenting with back in 2009 in my own production but I feel like he did the same thing better.

My favourite documentary, from 1967, about Segovia, for your listening/viewing/soul-soothing pleasure:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dXID4GM4oQ