Staying with piano tonight
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Foy Vance - From Muscle Shoals
Foy Vance (Vocals), Vinnie Ciesielski (Trumpet), Heath Fogg (Electric Guitar), Jeremy Gibson (Drums), Brad Guin (Tenor Saxophone), Steve Herrmann (Trumpet), David Hood (Bass Guitar), Shanay Johnson (Vocals), Karita Law (Vocals), Marie Lewey (Vocals), Doug Moffet (Baritone Saxophone), Spooner Oldham (Keyboards, Wurlitzer), Charles Rose (Trombone), Tyler Summers (Baritone Saxophone), Ben Tanner (Organ) and Cindy Walker (Vocals).
Streaming on Qobuz (44.1/16)… finished up today’s exercise routine and taking out Foy for a spin with a sandwich and cup of coffee. …and Foy and the band are sounding mighty sweet!
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Camel - ‘Raindances’ (1977). A new era of Camel begins with this great album. This is the first album without founder member Doug Ferguson. The silky vocals of Richard Sinclair give a special quality to the songs and the sax of Mel Collins gives a more jazzy feel. This is still prog though, in the main. ‘Unevensong’ is my favourite track. There are some great slower tracks too like ‘Tell Me’ and ‘Elke’. On the later CD version there is some extra material consisting of live versions of ‘Raindances’ songs from the BBC ‘Sight and Sound In Concert’ performance broadcast on BBC2 and Radio 1 simultaneously in the UK in September 1977.
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On CD……
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Foy Vance - Joy of Nothing
Foy Vance (Acoustic Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano, Vocals), Arco String Quartet (String Quartet), Kerry Brady (Cello), Rachel Coulter (Vocals), Fergus Fitzpatrick (Cello), Kathleen Gillespie (Violin), Jonathan Griffin (Violin), Clare Hadwen (Vocals, Violin), Richard Hadwen (Viola), Paul Hamilton (Drums, Percussion, Vocals), Paul Hamilton (Vocals), (Vocals), Michael Keeny (Vocals, Fender Rhodes, Mellotron, Mini Moog, Piano, Sounds, String Arrangements), Stephen McCartney (Vocals), Colm McClean (Electric Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Pedal Steel Guitar), Conor McCreanor (Electric Bass, Upright Bass), Johnny McDaid (Vocals, Lap Steel Guitar), Bonnie Raitt (Vocals), Ed Sheeran (Vocals), and Joanne Vance (Vocals).
Streaming on Qobuz (44.1/24)… continuing on this afternoon with the beautiful 2012 release from Foy and he and the band are sounding sublime! …one fine album.
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Gentle Giant - ‘The Missing Piece’ (1977). This was a step away from the prog of their previous work. More straight pop orientated shorter tracks replaced the complex arrangements of their heyday in line with the changing times. Even so, Gentle Giant were still able to show what a talented group of musicians they were in this very enjoyable album. The longer track ‘Memories of Old Days’ on side 2 was more prog in style. I felt that although the band moved with the times they were never completely comfortable or happy doing so. They would rather be playing songs like ‘On Reflection’, ‘Freehand’ and ‘Funny Ways’ rather than ‘Two Weeks In Spain’ catchy though it was!
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Foy Vance - The Wild Swan
Foy Vance (Fender Rhodes, 12 String Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Mando-Guitar, Piano, Upright Piano, Synthesizer, Vocals), Eric Darken (Chimes, Percussion, Vibraphone), Mike Farris (Vocals), Clare Hadwen (Violin), Richard Hadwen (Viola), Paul Hamilton (Drums, Percussion, Vocals), Leisa Hans (Vocals), Jim Hoke (Upright Piano, Saxophone), Alys Jackson (Violin), Tim Lauer (Accordion, Dulcimer, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3, Harmonium, Harpsichord, Mellotron, Organ, Pump Organ, Strings, Synthesizer), Kolton Lee (Bottle, Baritone Guitar), Colm McClean (Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Steel Guitar, Mandocaster), Conor McCreanor (Electric Bass, Upright Bass), urphy (Low Whistle, Uillean Pipes), Ryan Rafferty (Bagpipes), Heather Rigdon (Vocals), David Sloan (Cello), Ashley Wilcoxson (Vocals) and Jonathan Yudkin (Fiddle, Octophone, Strings, Vocals).
Streaming on Qobuz (44.1/16)… continuing on this afternoon with Foy and the band and they are sounding superb! One fantastic album…
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Another listen to the new Midnight Oil album Resist, I’m starting to warm to it. Like all good MO albums it benefits from a bit of volume.
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Fantastic album
