Advantages: Soulful real music Disadvantages: It's an old pressing
...5 month period called “A walk across the Rooftops” contained all the tracks written over the previous 2 years, during the time of recording the band tried to live very cheaply poring all of Linn’s money into the recording, the resulting songs sounded nothing like any else on the music scene at the time.
The tracks are full of the passion of Buchanan’s lyrics, which for me take something ordinary and make it sound magnificent ... ...The Album
“A walk across the Rooftops “(4.54) the title track opens with an ever so quiet keyboard played by P.J. Moore who’s volume builds slowly to what sounds like the wires in a piano being struck and then another keyboard is used to imitate a trumpet the first line is sung “I walk across the roof tops” this is a signal for the warm rich bass sound of Robert Bell to start with 5 deep notes then the unofficial band ...
Miles13 27.02.2006
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