I too am curious about these remixes of some of the St GermainTourist release - is there enough variety to recommend a purchase @Debs ?
There is a CD issue of The Travel Versions double LP with exactly the same track listing and I did consider getting it, but the fact that it didn’t feature all 9 or at least more than 4 different tracks was disappointing. The original disc mixes and sound quality is of course, very good and regularly played here, which makes me wonder how these sound.
My 2 x CD edition of Tourist additionally has 3 alternative remixes included!
Sam Wills, Breathe. This has just been discovered in the study as an unclaimed delivery. It had my name on it and the only paper trail I could find was a paypal receipt from October in my inbox. Nothing from the retailer. We saw Sam Wills as a support act in October. I now vaguely remember ordering it… I shouldn’t be allowed access to my phone when I’m listening to Qobuz with a bottle of red wine.
Bit disappointed TBH
It’s not particularly bad, but certainly a down beat also-ran for Saint Germain.
All tracks come with an automated dance beat, so a monotonous, repetitive, and unimaginative album that seamlessly blends into a forgettable bass beat blergh, i was expecting so much more… would have been far better for Ludovic Navarreto to have stuck to the well proven jazzy re-mixes with the musicianship inspired percussion.
This one arrived sooner than expected; Nina Simone’s debut release mastered and cut by Kevin Gray, with a nice think card tip-on sleeve. Only one word to sum it up: Wow! Delighted with this one.
According to the original notes by Joseph Myranyi she taught piano for a living in her early years and accompanied vocal students, while at the same time she did two years serious piano study at the Juilliard in New York.
Tip-on sleeves use high quality paper (often varnished) which is then stuck or “tipped on” to card. Tip-on sleeves were used mainly in the US during the '50s, '60s, and even into the '70s.
