Advantages: Easy listening and unique Disadvantages: Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
artists who doesn't get much work in Fabolous. Whilst Dream's vocal ability is quite bland, when you listen to his tracks you will hear all the different layers to the beat, and that is why you are unlikely to fall immediately in love with The-Dream. If you give The-Dream a chance though you are likely to fall for him, and 'Shawty' is a brilliant way to open the album as he praises his girl through music. As his debt single it is also his biggest success to date, peaking at #17 on the Billboard.
If you didn't enjoy the opening track at all, hopefully 'I Luv Your Girl' will be more your thing as it is the track that made me realise The-Dream is more than a few pretty words. You don't often hear someone openly singing about having a crush on a friends girlfriend, but in real-life we all know it happens. A brilliant track to kickback to and is ...
Advantages: A perfect ablum. Disadvantages: May not be to everyones tastes.
Henry's Dream is my favourite Nick Cave album and is a good introduction to his work.
The songs have vastly different feels. Straight to You is a beautiful song about nothing on heaven or earth being able to stop someone reaching the person they love. At the other end of the spectrum, you have John Finn's Wife, a track with a very dirty feel that culminates in lust and murder.
Henry's Dream is one of those very rare and special albums where every song is excellent, stands out in it's own right and also complements the entire album. Nick Cave is not to everyones taste but, although none of the tracks are what you would call mainstream, most people would take something from this album.
What I really love about this album is the imagery it conjures. I can't put my finger on exactly what causes it, but the whole way through I ...
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Product details
Title
Dreams So Real (The Music Of Carla Bley)
Performer
Gary Burton Quintet
Genre
Jazz Instrument
Sub Genre
Vibraphone / Marimba
Release Date
07/1988
Original Release Year
1976
Label / Distributor
ECM / Proper Note
Guest Artist(s)
Burton, Gary Quintet
Engineer
Martin Wieland
Producer
Manfred Eicher
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
42283332928
Catalogue Number
8333292
SPAR code
AAD
Additional notes
Album Notes
Gary Burton Quintet: Gary Burton (vibraphone); Pat Metheny (12-string electric guitar); Mick Goodrick (guitar); Steve Swallow (bass); Bob Moses (drums). Recorded at Studio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany in December 1975. Having explored country, free jazz, blues and funk during his tenure with RCA and Atlantic, Burton was positively liberated by the spatial production values and experimental inclinations of German producer Manfred Eicher. This resulted in an eruption of influential recordings. Together they helped launch a new, more cerebral era of, for want of a better word, fusion. Arguably the best of his many excellent ensembles, the quintet featured on DREAMS SO REAL is anchored by the rhythm section of bass guitarist Steve Swallow and drummer Bob Moses, veterans of Burton's '60s quartets on RCA. However, by the time of this recording, Moses had perfected a solid time sense and a diverse array of expressive timbres to go with his splashy, combustible polyrhythms. Swallow, meanwhile, had given up the bass violin in favor of the bass guitar, and throughout DREAMS SO REAL he demonstrates a refined touch and remarkable aptitude for cyclical harmonies quite unlike any other bass guitarist. The guitar team of Mick Goodrick and Pat Metheny is less omnipresent on DREAMS SO REAL than on previous quintet releases. Here the focus is on the expressive compositions of pianist Carla Bley, and on the leader's remarkable array of harmonic devices and melodic inflections. It's a perfect match: witness Burton's tolling, poignant reading of her "Jesus Maria," and the band's serene swing on the waltzing "Intermission Music." As a composer, Bley is a superb melodist, with a sly harmonic logic and a caustic sense of humor. On the medley "Ictus/Syndrome/Wrong Key Donkey" she moves from Cecil Taylor-like outbursts, to a celebratory vamp figure, to Monkish swing. Monk rears his head again on "Doctor" where Burton essays joyous variations with a hint of blues, and he transcends the chilly precision of the vibes with bell-like grace on the gospelish southwestern dances of "Vox Humana."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Dreams So Real
2.
Ictus/Syndrome
3.
Jesus Maria
4.
Vox Humana
5.
Doctor
6.
Intermission Music
7.
Intermission Music
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